You may think that you’re safe from freezing temperatures if you have very cold hardy plants in your landscape, but there’s a sneaky way in which winter can seriously damage your trees even if they’re cold-hardy. Damage can be caused from the freeze/thaw cycle that occurs on the south, or sun-facing (north facing in the [...]
Cutting out Disease
When a plant is diseased or wounded, it is often easier to cut out and remove the diseased portion of the plant instead of messing with chemical controls. This is especially true if you are dealing with a fruit or vegetable plant, which you would like to harvest chemical-free food from later. When cutting out [...]
Slugs and Snails: Thwarting the Slimy Buggers
Slugs and snails can be a problem predator for your plants. Lots of time has gone into testing methods of preventing slugs from getting to plants, including eggshells, citrus, oatmeal, beer, gravel, sharp rocks, ashes, sand, and even bits of glass. Of all of those methods, ashes and sand seem to be the only ones [...]
Snow: A Good Insulation
In temperate areas of the world (where winters can be cold and long), it is a good thing for your plants when it snows. Snow is actually an excellent insulator. Surface ground temperatures underneath a thick blanket of snow will stay fairly constant around 32 degrees even if the outside air above the snow is [...]
