1. Ignoring Soil Health: attempting to grow high quality plants from a low quality soil There’s nothing better than sinking your teeth into your own home-grown, delicious, nutrient-rich food. That kind of food not only tastes amazing, it works wonders for your health. Where do plants get the nutrients necessary to create such flavorful and [...]
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Preventing Freeze/Thaw Damage
You may think that you’re safe from freezing temperatures if you have very cold-hardy trees 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, side of a tree trunk [...]
Plant Adaptation for Freezing Temperatures
It’s amazing how plants can adapt and survive even in some of the most severe of climates. In the case of freezing cold, many plants have developed a unique adaptation that allows for their survival in this weather extreme. The adaptation is made possible by an anti-freeze protein. Plants such as evergreens that grow year-round, [...]
Accelerate Seed Germination
Sometimes getting seeds to grow can take many days and even weeks depending on the species you’re trying to grow. One quick and easy way to accelerate seed germination without using chemicals is simply to dampen the soil with warm water. Since plants’ metabolic rates are temperature-influenced (see ‘Cold-Blooded Plants‘), watering with warm water (not [...]
Starting from Seed
A lot of gardeners like to get a jump on the season by sowing seeds in pots indoors in early spring when it’s still too cold outside to start gardening. This is a good idea particularly for gardeners who live closer to the poles and thus have a shorter growing season. When starting a garden [...]
Cold-Blooded Plants
I’m sure you’ve seen or at least heard of reptiles sitting out in the sun for several minutes or even hours at a time. They do this because they get the warmth they need, in order to carry out bio-chemical functions within their bodies, from the sun, not from their own bodies. Plants are the [...]
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