Thursday, April 18, 2019

Gardening

Types of soil
- loam
- sandy
- clay
- silty
- alkaline / chalk soil
- acidic (for growing blueberries and cranberries) / peat

Soil nutrient
- carbon and oxygen from air
- hydrogen and more oxygen ftom water
- potassium
- sugar
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- sulphur
- calcium
- iron
- trace elements: meganese, boron, cobalt, silicon, zinc, copper
The most common use for natural waste is turning it into compost. Banana peels are extremely beneficial since they decompose quickly, becoming food for their plant brethren. This means quicker food for your plants, allowing them to grow and produce.https://www.zenhealthmag.com/15-amazing-ways-to-use-banana-peels/7/ To help keep your indoor plants green and lively, infuse a bucket of water with a couple of banana peels. This homemade fertilizer is a quick way to introduce much-needed nutrients to your plants.https://www.zenhealthmag.com/15-amazing-ways-to-use-banana-peels/9/

Soil organism
- microfauna
- mesofauna
- macrofauna

Chemical reaction
- redox

Soil improvement
- digging/ploughing
- forking
- hoeing
- rolling
- raking or harrowing
- drainage

Fertilizers
- barnyard material
- compost
- chemical
- liquid fertiliser
  • comfrey

Raised beds
- concrete slabs
- log rolls
- edging stones
- metal edging
- wooden planks
- old sink
- drainage pipes
- tires

Materials for paths
- bricks
- carpet scraps
- bark chips
- artificial turf
- grass
- weed barrier
- gravel
- deck boards

Windbreaks
- trellis panels
- low screening
- cage the plot
- cold frame
- greenhouse
- cloche
  • bamboo
  • glass
  • plastic
pesticides
Banana peels are a natural pesticide. Ants bugging your plants? Bury a peel up to 2 inches deep in the soil of your beloved plant and watch as the insects skedaddle. You can also use orange peel to get the same natural bug-shooing effects.https://www.zenhealthmag.com/15-amazing-ways-to-use-banana-peels/6/

netting to protect against birds and insects
- robust cage
- fine-mesh netting
- cover leafy crops with netting
- chicken wire

features for family beds
- a digging only bed
- birdhouses, feeders and baths
- a bean teepee, sunflower house, plant tunnel

season crops
- cool
  • root
  • stem
  • leaf
  • flower bud
- warm
  • fruits
  • seeds
methods for sowing seeds
- broadcasting
- furrow planting
- drilling

garden volunteers
- cutting garden flowers

  • amaranth
  • bachelor
  • buttons
  • cosmos
  • fever few
  • marigolds
  • nigella
  • poppies
  • snap dragons
  • sunfolwers
  • sweet peas
  • zinnias
- edible flowers
  • borage
  • calendula
  • nasturtiums
  • violas
- other edibles
  • beans
  • chard
  • cilantro
  • dill
  • fennel
  • kale
  • mustard greens
  • orach

Edible flowers (petals and mints can be made fanciful ice cubes)
- red

  • bachelor button
  • carnation
  • daylily
  • nasturtium
  • scabiosa
- orange
  • calendula
  • carnation
  • daylily
  • marigold
  • nasturtium
- yellow
  • calendula
  • carnation
  • daylily
  • marigold
  • nasturtium
  • viola
- green 
  • broccoli
- blue/purple
  • bachelor button
  • borage
  • chive
  • daylily
  • garlic
  • lavender
  • onion
  • viola
- white
  • bachelor button
  • carnation
  • cauliflower
  • chamomile
  • citrus
  • daylily
  • garlic
  • mints
  • onion
  • pineapple guava
  • stock


Growing Bell peppers and Chiles
- sowing - place seeds 0.5 inch (1cm) deep in seed-starting mix in individual pots and water well.  Once the seedlings haave emered, move to a warm window hedge
- planting out - when all dangers of frost has passed, space plants at 16in (40cm) apart in the soil. Water thoroughly after planting

Topiary is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of treesshrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful. The term also refers to plants which have been shaped in this way. As an art form it is a type of living sculpture. The word derives from the Latin word for an ornamental landscape gardenertopiarius, a creator of topia or "places", a Greek word that Romans also applied to fictive indoor landscapes executed in fresco.


Websites
- http://davewilson.com:8080/
- https://communitygarden.org/
- http://www.organicgardening.com/
- http://www.gardenvisit.com/
- http://publicgardens.org/
- http://4hgarden.msu.edu/kidstour/tour.html
- http://blogs.cornell.edu/garden/
- raisingbutterflies.org
- miniature-gardening.com
- soil

  • http://www.researcherid.com/ProfileView.action?returnCode=ROUTER.Unauthorized&queryString=KG0UuZjN5WlJbg0vdKZlTwjy1pZQWx3dPe822KA%252BLXY%253D&SrcApp=CR&Init=Yes
  • http://miransari.webs.com
  • https://sites.google.com/site/miransari1/
- certified wildlife habitat
  • nfw.org
  • cwf-fcf.org
  • wildaboutgardens.org
- pollinator

  • pollinator.org
  • pollinationcanada.ca
  • rhs.org.uk/plants-for-pollinators
- nestng box designs, bird feeders
  • allabout-birds.org
  • birdfeeding.org

- frost dates

  • victoryseeds.com (canada and USA)
  • gardenaction.co.uk 
- seed starting date
  • johnnyseeds.com


event
- international botanical congress in shenzhen http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201707/0723/HA03723CZGG.pdf

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