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Hi everyone
Welcome to this edition of your Gardening Weekly, today's edition is entitled:
Feeding Your Plants
QUOTE: Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
- Gerald De Nerval
Just like people, plants have their own particular requirements and it is not the best policy to assume they all need the same feeding. Some plants need a lot of attention whereas others require very little.
You can actually harm the growth of your plants by feeding them too much. Once again there needs to be balance in the garden. If you feed your plants too much fertilizer that is high in nitrogen you might get a lot more foliage but a reduction in the fruit or flowers that the plant will produce.
This is because the plants will be using that nitrogen as energy to grow faster rather than produce more fruit or flowers.
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Plants are always giving us signs of their food requirements or if they have been stressed. They will wilt, or they might change color, or their leaves might curl up and drop off. If there is something wrong with a plants nutrition it can often be seen quite easily. It is just a matter of reading these signs and knowing what is going on. As all plants are different, to fully understand the requirements of the particular plants or trees that you are growing you need to get information specific to those plants.
If you find signs of stress in your plants you should take samples to the local nurseries of the leaves and any abnormalities that you might notice in the soil.
There might be signs of mold in the soil, which could suggest too much water, and the roots of your plants might be rotting.
If the leaves of your plants are turning yellow on the other hand they might be suffering from a shortage of water.
The three most important elements in the soil of plants are nitrogen; for the promotion of leaf and stem growth.
Phosphorus; for the root growth and Potassium; which helps in the growth of flowers and fruits.
If you find there are any deficiencies in these areas then additional nutrients will need to be added to the soil.
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When evergreen trees such as pines and junipers begin to grow, it's time to fertilize. Apply a fertilizer high in nitrogen such as 10-10-10. Sprinkle a few handfuls around the drip line of the plant and scratch it in.
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Now is a good time to compost your lawn. If you have never done this, you have to try it, because it does so much more for your lawn than fertilizer. In addition to having important nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, …
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Early spring is a good time to fertilizer trees that have shown poor growth or have pale leaves. Spread slow release fertilizer with a balance of nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium outside the drip line of the tree.
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As new growth appears on your bluegrass, fescue, and ryegrass lawns, feed them with a complete fertilizer such as 16-8-4 applying about 1 pound of actual nitrogen fertilizer per 1000 square feet of lawn.
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Lawns of bluegrass and fescue in mild areas may have rusty red leaf grass tips. Red thread fungal disease thrives in cool, wet weather. To control, fertilize with nitrogen, mow off the red tips, and water the lawn deeply.
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Bonsai ‘food’ can readily be obtained from a local nursery or gardening section, or purchased online. The most common type contains NPK, nitrogen (N), phosphates (P) and potassium (K). The last is usually in the form of potash, …
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Damping off fungal disease thrives in wet soils high in nitrogen and can quickly destroy tender seedlings. To prevent the disease use potting soils high in perlite to increase water drainage and don't fertilize until seedlings are …
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Hi everyone
Welcome to this edition of your Gardening Weekly, today's edition is entitled:
Crop Rotation For Vegetables
QUOTE: This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.
And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
- Alan Watts
When growing vegetables in the garden most people tend to grow the same crops year after year.
This is not surprising really, as we grow the crops that we prefer to eat and we also tend to grow the plants that we have the most success growing.
One thing that most gardeners seem to do is grow the same vegetables in the very same place in the garden each year.
You will tend to have a spot for your tomatoes and a spot for your pumpkins and so on.
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The problem with planting the same crops in the same place each year is the effect it has on the nutrients in the soil.
Plants will extract the nutrients that they need from the soil for their specific requirements each season. By planting the same crops in the same places you can get nutrient deficiencies.
This is where crop rotation can enhance the value of your soil. By rotating where you plant your vegetables each season you will be giving the soil the opportunity to produce better results as there won't be the same demands on the nutrients in the soil when there is a different plant growing their from last season.
To improve the soil quality even more, you should dig in the remains of the crops once the season has finished allowing some of those nutrients to be put back into the soil. In the off-season you can also grow cover crops in the garden. These are crops that are grown specifically to add nitrogen to the soil. These crops have high nitrogen value in their roots and when they are ready, you dig them into the soil.
In doing this you can expect a better harvest each year as the new planting of vegetables will have more nutrients to feed them.
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Hi everyone
Welcome to this edition of your Gardening Weekly, today's edition is entitled:
Feed For Your Plants
QUOTE: I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
The best time to start feeding your garden is in spring. At this time of the year the ground is still moist from the winter and early spring rains.
As the ground warms up with the hotter spring weather you get ideal growing conditions in your garden.
This is a crucial time for growth in the garden and you will need to ensure that your plants have the necessary nutrients to benefit from this period.
The small feeder roots that will be developing will seek the nutrients that you need to supply them.
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By choosing the correct foods for your plants they will have better foliage, they will be stronger plants and will also have more abundant flowering.
There are three key factors that are needed in a balanced plant food and they are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
A plentiful supply of nitrogen will ensure that your plants have healthy foliage. Phosphorus improves the plants root health and potassium will encourage the plant to bloom and fruit.
As you can see they are all needed for the overall health of the plants and you should always check on the packaging of the fertilizer to see whether the chemical analysis is suitable.
These fertilizers usually come in three forms - controlled release, liquid and soluble. Controlled release formulations have the nutrients inside a semi-permeable membrane that allows the nutrients to be released into the soil in a controlled manner once it reacts with the soil moisture and temperature.
One application can last months and it is ideal for containers and indoor plants and established plants and trees.
Liquid formulations are similar to the soluble ones but they have been mixed with water and can be sprayed on the plants leaves for rapid response.
Soluble formulations and applied dry and dissolve once the area receives water, which will dissolve the salts and make the nutrients available for the roots of the plant.
All applications have their benefits and you need to decide which is best for the plants you are feeding.
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Annie
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