Picking the Perfect Spot for Your Fruit Tree
When growing a fruit tree, choosing the right place to plant it is very important. You have to consider its proximity to a building, electric line, sidewalk, or anything else that might disrupt its growth. Once you have planted a fruit tree, the chances of unearthing it and changing its spot without killing it are…
How to Maintain a Healthy Young Fruit Tree
Ensuring your fruit tree stays healthy is very important but not as hard as some might think. There are several vital things you need to do: don’t harvest all of the fruit on the tree at the same time; make sure the soil is healthy; watch out for pests; plant it correctly; be sure it…
How to Safely use Spray Pesticides
If you want to protect your fruit tree from pests during the summer, this is almost impossible without pesticides or chemicals. This might scare some people into thinking that the actual fruits will contain traces of the chemicals. If you do things correctly, you can eliminate all the pests and not infect the tree. If…
Preventing Small Fruit – Enhancing Fruit Growth
The one thing that usually shocks new tree growers is that the fruits their trees produce are much smaller than the ones they used to see at the grocery store. “What is wrong with my tree? What Did I Do Wrong?” (You may cry) However, small fruits are a natural occurrence. But while smaller fruits…
What are the different types of Apple Tree?
In the past, there were only a couple of different kinds of apple trees that you could buy. But now, thanks to the wonders of genetic engineering, if you want to buy an apple tree, you are able to choose between many different types of apples and flavors. Here I will outline five different popular…
How to Care Properly for Your New Fruit Tree
If you have just recently planted a new fruit tree, I think it is safe to assume you are not yet an expert. More fruit trees die in their beginning years due to poor care habits than any disease or pestilence. Therefore it is vital that you understand how to care for trees in a…
Tips to Take Care of Your Garden in Winter
You can always find something to do if you’re a gardening enthusiast. The winter season is the best time for tidying up your garden, pruning the plants, and preparing for spring. Clean and check your gardening equipment Cleaning your gutters is a good winter gardening job to begin with. Leaves, branches, and other debris can…
6 Tips to Care for House Plants
Many people worry a lot when it comes to caring for their plants. When talking about house plants, there is no need to worry. There are just a few things you need to consider. 1. Watering A watering can is a must-have in every garden. You should purchase one with a narrow spout to ensure…
What Does ‘Organic’ Really Mean?
“Organic” may appear on meat packages, milk or egg cartons, cheese, and other single-ingredient foods. Certified organic requires the rejection of synthetic agrochemicals, irradiation, and genetically engineered foods or ingredients. Literally, the term is redundant: all food comprises organic chemicals (complex chemicals containing carbon). Any materials used in producing or processing organic food must be…
Make Your Own Window Box Reservoir
Window gardens come in various shapes and sizes, if you opt to buy one (such as these from Amazon) it the cost can be prohibitive but also they are fixed in size. These devices are deceptively simple, as they work through a wick that feeds water into the soil and too the roots (so you…
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