Gardening
« Previous EntriesCultivating Vegetables —Create a Peace Garden
Friday, June 29th, 2012A peace garden is an area anywhere near your home, where you can grow fruit and vegetables. Vegetable beds the size of a door each are ideal. You should plant at least four beds of vegetables and as many more as you need and can handle, in rotation. To start, decide on the types of [...]
Cultivating Sub-tropical Crops: Pepper
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012Pepper is a tropical plant that grows in hot humid areas with a high rainfall. Locally it can only be grown in the Lowveld and along the northern coastal areas of KwaZulu-Natal. Botanical characteristics The pepper plant is an evergreen perennial. It attaches itself to trees or trellises by means of aerial roots and [...]
Improving the Native Chicken Breed
Friday, April 13th, 2012Majority of small and marginal farmers raise native chicken in their backyards. The native chicken are nondescript, mongrel birds that have evolved from jungle fowls interbred with domesticated ones brought into the country by early Chinese, Spanish and Dutch traders and settlers. The native chicken have adapted themselves to adverse conditions in small farms – [...]
How to Encourage Root Growth in Leggy Plants
Sunday, March 25th, 2012Leggy plants exhibit weak top growth. Stems become overly long and spindly while producing sparse foliage that tends to flop. Several factors influence the legginess of a plant, including poor or restricted root growth. Seedlings and transplants are prone to legginess when they are kept in small seedling and nursery plants too long. Encouraging stronger [...]
How to Transplant Leggy Basil
Sunday, March 25th, 2012Short compact seedlings are often a sign of well-lit seed tray, but when light is insufficient, any herb, including basil, can become tall, spindly and thin, frequently called leggy. Fear not, however, because there’s no reason to toss out your basil seedlings if they are leggy. You can still transplant leggy basil into your garden or [...]
How to Grow Bermuda Grass from Seed
Saturday, March 24th, 2012Bermuda grass is the most common grass used on golf courses today. It forms a thick grassbed and it is very resistant to wear and tear. It grows low to the ground, meaning you’ll have to mow less. Although some see Bermuda grass as a threat to lawns, Bermuda lawns are sought after by others. [...]
How to Transplant Mushrooms
Saturday, March 24th, 2012Mushrooms are not actually complete plants but the flowering part of a mycelium, a type of fungus that forms colonies and feeds on decaying matter. The reliable way to move these primitive plants is to spawn and infuse them, using a process that corresponds to some extent to vegetative reproduction. Bill Blakaitis, founder of the [...]
Growing Ginseng Medicinal Plant
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012A lot of people are already health conscious. But there are some people who does not know what to take in order to stay healthy and strong. With the coming of the ginseng medicinal plants, everyone believes that this will be the best solution for making their body strong and healthy. Nowadays there are lots [...]
Organic Potato Farming
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012It is undeniable that potatoes are produced easily without doing extra efforts. There is ample scope to apply organic potato farming techniques that ensure growing them organically. If organic potato farming is practiced then it is ensured that least or no insect pests are present in them. Organically such potatoes are the genuine ones hence [...]
Adding Nitrogen As A Plant Fertilizer
Monday, March 12th, 2012Your garden is not growing as well as it use to and some of the plants in the garden are starting to look a little yellow. You suspect a nitrogen deficiency in the soil but you are unsure how to correct it. “Why do plants need nitrogen anyway?” you may be wondering. Nitrogen as a [...]
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