Plant Gardens 101

The botanical name for gas plant.

Insects

The only ones troubling house plants are the green fly, the mealy bug, the scale, and the red spider.

The green fly is to be killed by a smoking with tobacco. Put the plant under a barrel with smoking tobacco; let it remain, say fifteen minutes; then give it a syringing.

Mealy bug is to be searched for and destroyed. Frequent sponging does much to keep down this pest.

Scale is to be treated in the same way. Warm soap-suds are peculiarly distasteful to the creature.

Red spider, which is seldom found on house plants, is nourished by a dry, warm atmosphere. Water is certain death. Keep the foliage syringed and atmosphere moist, and you will have no red spider. (more…)

The rotating compost bin has become very popular in recent years. Primarily because more and more of us are deciding to compost our green waste and the result is some fantastic new machines that can make compost in a very short space of time.

The compost tumbler works on a fairly simple premise. You add soft organic material to them on a regular basis and eventually you get a fantastic compost as the end result. They are sealed containers so there is no rodent or animal problem to contend with. For many this is reason enough. Added to this is the actual tumbling action that you perform by turning a handle. This is at the heart of the design. This turning will mean that you are regularly chopping up the contents which make them a lot quicker to turn in to compost. It also means that there is an even heat in the barrel which will keep the contents activated at an optimum temperature. This constant temperature means that everything inside will degrade at a similar speed.

Because of the way these barrels act it means that you can produce compost in a very short space of time. As little as two weeks in some cases. If you want a nice and easy way to make compost then I strongly suggest you investigate the rotating compost bin. They really are a very efficient way indeed of producing quality compost in a short space of time.
The urban compost tumbler has gained immensely in popularity. See the compost tumbler post for lots of information on the rotating compost bin.

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With the increasing reduction of wild habits for many plants, many people have begun to look afresh at what they are losing and have gained an appreciation of their native flora. This has encourage them to create areas within their own garden in which wild flowers can flourish, partly to help preserve these flowers and partly because they simply enjoy them.

What is a wildflower garden? A wildflower garden is one in which native flowers are grown in as near wild conditions as possible. The idea of wild conditions is not so much to create picturesque landscape but more to create conditions in which the flowers will grow.

There are several types of garden all based on habitats in the wild. The most common is a wildflower meadow. Next are those based on plants of the cornfield and arable land, which like the disturbed soil of the open border. Then there are the woodland plants that need a shady garden. Finally, there are the wetland plants, which need a pond, stream or boggy area. Once established, wildflower gardens or borders are wonderful for attracting native birds and insects. They are, after all, their natural food. (more…)