Plant Gardens 101

You’ve seen them on countless homes but never really gave s second thought to planter boxes. As a symbol of Southern charm, these compact containers provide compact gardens to more than just quaint little houses out in the country. For example:

Scenario 1: Jessica lives in a sky rise apartment in the big city. Not only does she not have a backyard or garden space, but she is also on the 30th floor.

Scenario 2: Matthew has a condo in the suburbs and a decent size front lawn. The problem is, the front of his home faces West and so he only receives the weak, late day sunshine, which is not strong enough for the sun-seeking plants he prefers. (more…)

Knotweed family
Polygonaceae
Pol-lig’o-num. Smartweed ; Knotweed . Erect, trailing, or climbing herbs, comprising about 150 worldwide species of very diverse habits.

Description
Stems angled, swollen at the joints where leaf base clasps the stem, sometimes spotted or streaked brown. Leaves alternate and simple. Flowers small, in terminal spikes or loose racemes. Calyx of 5 sepals generally colored pink or white. Corolla absent. Stamens 3-9.

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Phlox family
Polemoniaceae
Flocks . About 60 species of usually hardy herbs found mostly in North America.

Description
Leaves lance-shaped, opposite and in pairs, or alternate. Flowers showy, in loose or closely packed terminal clusters, ranging from white to red, pale lilac, or purple, the corolla tube usually having an eyelike marking at the opening. Calyx of 5 sepals united halfway down. Corolla of 5 united petals forming a short, narrow tube. Stamens 5, usually enclosed in the corolla tube.

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Here are some things you will need to add to your greenhouse over the months:

Benches and Shelves

Unless you have planned this greenhouse for a long time and have a supply of good soil ready, the soil required for your first year’s planting may have to be included in your budget. More than just plain garden soil is needed for potting most greenhouse-grown plants. Garden or field loam can make up as much as a third of the mixture, but it should be enriched with another third of organic material.

Vermiculite or sand is the other third. With an established compost pile or a heap of leaf-mold, you will find it necessary to purchase only such organics as sphagnum moss, peatmoss, or peat. Sphagnum moss wholesales at a few dollars a bale plus shipping charges; granulated peatmoss and horticultural peat. Leafmold is priced at cheaply per bushel. Special potting materials such as osmunda fiber (an old-time medium for orchids ) can cost a fair amount, shredded wood and bark, used increasingly of late in orchid culture, is (or was) priced very reasonably. (more…)

A seasonally flooded bottomland with more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog.

If I were a carrot, I would be up at arms; in surveys worldwide, it always comes in second to the potato in popularity. The potato is a delicious and nutritious vegetable, easily adaptable to many ways of cooking and varied recipes, no doubt, but the carrot’s virtues are plentiful as well. Like the potato, the carrot comes in a multitude of eye-pleasing colors: orange, white, yellow, red, and maroon to name a few. While carrots do grow in the wild, most are familiar with the cultivated carrot that most commonly makes its way to the world’s dinner tables. There exist several hundred varieties of carrots with over fifty different kinds of seeds readily available. Carrots are extremely rich in nutritional value and are such hearty growers; no backyard garden should be without them. (more…)

Having a raise is not just about planting crops and harvesting it. There is a lot of work to be done to safeguard it from disease, rats and the season. Since these areas are typically big and want a lot of person power, scientists have come up with a better idea.

This planned is to grow cropping in a controlled environment which makes it tranquil to grow crops throughout the year. This configured which can be big or small depending on the open opening in the plow is known as the greenhouse.

A greenhouse is an enclosed shop that is usually made up of metal, copse and tumbler. These structures are intended so that the planter can grow vegetables, plants and fruits. The self could buy one and have it assembled in the raise or have it custom made according to certain specifications.

This new style has better outcome than burden farming the non-organic way such as the use of dirt, irradiation, pesticides and herbicides. These is only after tests have revealed that this is a strength venture that does more harm than good. (more…)