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Houseplant Care
Soil Cultivation FAQs
Digging the soil helps to aerate it—although in a fertile soil earthworms do that task anyway. Digging is also necessary if you wish to incorporate bulky organic material and bury weeds.
Plant Nutrition
It is important to understand that all vegetables require a supply of nutrients. Of these the most important are nitrogen, phosphate and potash.
Garden Projects FAQs
My tools are always jumbled in the shed and I would like to construct a very simple rack to hold them. A straightforward rack can be made from offcuts of timber probably already in your possession.
Lawn Care FAQs
Buying mowers is like buying cars—there is a choice of many kinds and many prices.
Plants and Fertilizers
To keep your house plants looking and feeling healthy, you must give them the nourishment they need, as well as the light, warmth and water.
Insects and Insecticides
Many insects are pests of garden plants, some like aphids (greenfly, black fly etc.), flea beetles, leather jackets, millepedes and wireworms attacking a wide range of crops, others confining attacks…
Outdoor Cultivation of Daffodils
A well-drained soil, deeply worked and containing some humus, is ideal for the narcissus. The plant will in no way tolerate a waterlogged soil, nor one of an acidic nature.
Growing Fruit on the Patio and Small Garden
Fruit should find a place in every patio and garden no matter the size. In the very smallest, there must surely be room for a tree or two to be trained against walls of the house; even in the paved…
Best Way to Control Weeds
‘If weeds won’t grow nothing else will.’ Experienced gardeners are fond of saying this and they are quite right.