Vegetable Garden Design -
Vegetable garden design is important if you wish to get maximum reslts from your limited space. The old fashioned kitchen garden is a productive food ...
Costing a Job -
The best way to organise an estimate of the materials required for a job is to break it down into its individual steps. recording the type and quantit...
Repotting Houseplants -
Frequent repotting of house plants is unnecessary, and generally plants placed in containers 5 in. or larger in diameter can stay in the same pots for...
Bonsai Tools -
Beyond the basic instruments there are numerous other tools and devices that can be useful in certain circumstances. Among these are saws, brushes, tw...
What is soil pH? -
What is soil pH? pH are symbols used by chemists for describing the degree of alkalinity or acidity of soils. There is a scale of values centred aroun...
Winter Bulbs -
As the year wears on and cut flowers become expensive, bulbs which bloom during autumn are particularly useful around the house....
Choosing Your Plants From The Nursery -
When choosing plants from the nursery, always look for healthy leaf growth, perhaps new shoots and good colour in the leaves. Plants that look pale an...
Bonsai Propagation -
Bonsai may be created from any woody or semi-woody plant, and there are several ways to obtain good material. Plants may be propagated from seed or cu...
Asbestos Safety -
The widely used building material known as `fibro', Hbrolite (NZ) or asbestos cement, contained asbestos fibres until the early 1980s, when concerns w...
