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Clovers For Fertility: Maintaining Garden Soil Organically
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If your garden soil is poor, consider giving it some help. One way to amend garden soils organically is to plant a green manure cover crop. It requires minimum effort.
For 4,000 years prior to the factory-made fertilizers, the Chinese used every bit of organic matter they could lay their hands on to return to the soil the nitrogen and other nutrients their vegetable crops removed.
Americans have never been quite so industrious. Unlike the Chinese, our culture treats the organic matter we should be putting back into the soil as waste material, shipping it off to landfills or flushing it down the toilet.
Even small gardens will benefit from the use of cover crops, or “green manures”. Tilling, weeding, harvesting and foot traffic of most home gardens tends to destroy soil structure.
Planting cover crop is an easy way to revitalize the soil, and help soil tilth and subsequent plant growth.
Cover crops are planted in vacant space and worked into the soil after they grow instead of being eaten. They provide a number of advantages to the otherwise wasteful use of space during your garden’s off-season.
Cover crops help to retain the soil, lessen erosion, and decrease the impact of precipitation on the garden by slowing the runoff of water. And, Read More→
It’s Your Move About The Red Clover
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Red Clover is a very common plant with bright pink blossoms and is renowned for its fertility-enhancing properties. A delicate blossom on a hardy, nourishing plant could be the natural fertility booster that you are looking for.
It is known as a hardy plant that enriches the fertility of the soil its planted in. Natural wisdom has proven that it gives a tonic and enhancing effect to human fertility as well.
Common in fields and along roadsides, it has bright pink blossoms from mid-summer into the chilly days of fall. What can red clover tell about your landscape?
The reason for its presence is not to annoy or even mock you. Instead, it is merely assessing the quality of your garden soil. Typically, the presence of clover in your lawn indicates a low level of nitrogen in the soil.
Nitrogen in your soil will affect the part of the plant that is above ground, especially the green, leafy sections. Correct levels of Nitrogen will promote healthy green foliage.
Therefore, you will find that vegetables such as lettuce and spinach, as well as lawns, have high Nitrogen requirements.
Nitrogen is one of the most difficult nutrients to maintain in your garden as it is easily washed away by rain water. The Nitrogen level in your soil can, therefore, deplete quickly. And, Read More→
Hibiscus: Happier, Hardier & Healthier For You Than You Think
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Hibiscus is one of my favorite happy flowers. Hardy hibiscuses are happy-looking creatures, coloring summer gardens with 10-inch-wide flowers in reds, whites and pinks.
It blooms in late summer just as gardens and gardeners are looking a little worn out.
Its generous flowering habit, exquisite blooms and long flowering period, from early summer to late autumn, just can’t be scoffed at! Once they start blooming, they usually keep blooming until a killing frost in fall. And, Read More→
Delicate Beauty Of Daffodils That Stand Tall & Proud In Your Garden!
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In winter gardeners dream of daffodils. By late February or early March the dream becomes a reality and here they are standing tall and proud and shining in their unmatched beauty by saying that spring is here.
Daffodils are constantly recurring flowers with at least 50 species and many hybrids! The garden Daffodil’s ancestors come from the states around the Mediterranean Sea, such as Spain and Portugal, and the Middle East, such as Turkey.
The earliest record mentioned about Daffodils was around two or three hundred years BC.
No matter where you live, certain daffodils bloom earlier than others. My first blooms are always on miniature cultivars. You can get miniatures which begin the season, and other miniatures which end the season. And, Read More→
Brighten Your Home At Christmas With Poinsettias!
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Whatever the color, shape or size, poinsettias brighten your home at Christmas and during the winter holidays.
There are more than 100 varieties of poinsettias, but the most popular are red, white and pink.
Bright, flaming red, star-shaped Poinsettias are known as ‘Flower of the Holy Night’ or ‘Flame Leaf’. One of the most popular flowers in Central America, it was brought to US by Dr. Joel Poinsett, the first US ambassador to Mexico, over a hundred years ago.
Poinsettias have a rich cultural history. The tropical shrubs, which have about 100 different species and reach heights of up to 12 feet tall in their natural habitat, were known as “Cuetlaxochitl” to the Aztecs and used to dye clothing and cure fevers.
Poinsettias were also used in Aztec religious ceremonies since the Aztecs considered the color red a symbol of purity.
So what does a poinsettia have to do with Christmas? One interpretation of the plant is as a symbol of the Star of Bethlehem, the place where Christ was born.
A Mexican legend tells of a girl who could only offer weeds as a gift to Jesus on Christmas Eve. When she brought the weeds into a church, they blossomed into the beautiful red plants we know as poinsettias, known as “flowers of the holy night”. And, Read More→
