It might be a good idea to remove any debris or weeds around the trunks of these trees, as well as thinning the interior of the plant to ensure that maximum air flow is available to dry out leaves and bark.
However, as most of the country experienced this year, the tough winter left many of her established plants dead and spring storms had washed away newly planted seedlings. Aren't we happiest when we're comfortable in our own skin, busy doing the things...
I often look at the work they've done and wonder how it's possible. Fortunately, I was blessed with a moment of respite last night. For the past couple years, I've been fortunate to stand alongside a dedicated group of people who are feeding the hungry...
The larger the woody base material, the more self-sustaining you can expect the beds to be over time. When I built my first huegelkultur beds last year, I was pleasantly surprised to find that they held a soil temperature notably higher than my traditional...
Here in Lexington, Ky., where the HF editorial office is located, we didn't get the worst of the vortex's chilly wrath, but my phone did clock the temperature at -3 degrees F with a wind chill of -26 degrees F Tuesday morning?definitely not what we're...
Dr. Hahnemann boiled the bark into tea and drank it for several days. Even conventional pharmacies and general stores dispensed homeopathic medicines. Homeopathy was born in 1870, when a German doctor named Samuel Hahnemann, translated a medical treatise...
Children are particularly susceptible to adverse effects. The toxic berries and plant parts may produce adverse effects in humans and animals.Winterberries provide winter-long interest in the garden and make beautiful cut stems, but they also contain...
Ever since I started working for Hobby Farms , my daydream tangents have frequently started turning to what chicken breeds I'd like to keep or which veggie varieties I'd like to start growing.
New To You, But Not So New It turns out that ashitaba isn't all that “new” to America. Pretty cool, but that's not why it's becoming so trendy. Richo says he thinks that the name “tomorrow's leaf” actually refers to the fact that eating it means...
When you're unsure if what you're looking at is a good bug or bad bug to be, your local extension agent is your best friend. They often can point you to a entomological expert who may be able to look at a photo or examine a captured specimen to help you...
Keep reading to find out how to tell if ground is frozen or not.Although it may seem as if spring has arrived, it's important tofor readiness before working your soil or planting your garden.
For instance, the fungal disease Pythium root rot occurs with cooler temperatures in poorly drained soils. Infected plants often have sunken lesions on the stem at or below the soil line.Various practices may be helpful in reducing the amount of damping...
If no testing is done on finished compost how are we to know if someone with a communicable disease has left bacteria or a virus on the food scraps? I know I sure wouldn't want to risk it, would you?Mother Jones News recently reported "California regulators...
The important thing is to prepare enough brine to cover the turkey completely. They are capable of walking, running, even flying, and capable of breeding by themselves. "will be the honorary grand marshal of Disneyland's Thanksgiving Day Parade," the...
Let me explain.In 1994, my husband and I had the opportunity to open a small grocery store at his grandparents' former house after they died. That's what happened with the laurel dry leaves: he got a large box, with forty bags, each containingOf course,...
Better known as Dracaena sanderiana, this plant is a fixture in many households.Connoisseurs agree that not all bamboo is created equally.Lucky bamboo, also known as "Belgian evergreen," is a woody shrub with shiny green leaves.
"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings," sings poet Robert Louis Stevenson in an apt summary of the wealth and diversity in nature's plant kingdom.
This cycle was repeated indefinitely. Crop rotation is all the more important in fields where the soil is prone to depletion or where demanding crops have been grown. Crop rotations and fallow ground may be seasonal as opposed to annual.
It is considered very soft, rendering it unsuitable for use in situations requiring durability, such as flooring. Okoume is widely used for veneers and is often processed into plywood.A paddler is pulling a wooden sea kayak out of the water.Okoume heartwood...
Or maybe I should just wait for a car with an open window to stop on our corner. “Psst! Hey buddy, want a rooster?” Then I'll proceed to pull him out from under my jacket and try to hand him off.
I can only imagine the frustration I caused my poor mother. I can credit this switch mainly to the idea that Robert South is referring to in his quote: Moving to a city from a small town opened my eyes to the wide world of available food I had never experienced,...
Frost will kill it. It grows best in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 10 and warmer. For this reason, bougainvillea is often grown in a container and brought indoors for the winter.
These ions have a positive electrical charge and the chemical symbol H+. This method works well but takes time to have its affect. A hydronium ion is a hydrogen nucleus without its usual single orbiting electron.
Mulch Insulates and Protects: It insulates soil to protect soil organisms and plant roots from extreme weather, as well as insulate them from sudden fluctuations, such as freezing temperatures, drying sun or compaction from heavy rains.
While costly upfront, the spray foam would provide future savings in the form of lower heating and cooling bills, as well as tax incentives. Instead of choosing the cheapest company, we chose one priced middle of the road because it was both informative...
If not, the reader probably doesn't have the breeds he thought. Sex links are hybrids of two combined breeds that produce females of one color and males of another color. Having had a Red Star myself, I guessed that she actually had Rhode Island Reds...
Sugar cane is a subtropical/tropical grass that originated in Papua, New Guinea and spread throughout Southeast Asia, India, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, Hawaii and the southern United States because of human migration and the slave trade.
