How to Lay Lawn Sods -
Prepare the soil on which turf is to be laid exactly as for seeding but with its surface as much lower than the finish grade as the sods are thick. Ma...
Light and House Plants -
Light can be supplemented by artificial lights, especially by fluorescent tubes only half a metre or so above the plants. This works well for foliage ...
Gardens and Garden Design -
The choice of suitable trees and shrubs is governed not only by the soil, climate, and aspect of the area, but by many other factors. Trees and shrubs...
Permaculture Zones -
An innovation of design was the appreciation of the efficiency and productivity of natural ecosystems and to seek to apply this efficiency to the way ...
Cleaning House Plants -
Many house plants belong in the tropics. They tend to lose condition in areas with cool winters and are even more unhappy with the changes of temperat...
Organic Food -
To understand what organic food is, one must first understand the definition of organic soil since food is the product of the soil. Organic soil has b...
Hanging Basket Plants -
Plants which trail naturally are best: Ivies, Lobelias, pendant Begonias, Petunias, Zebrinas, Chlorophytum (Spider Plant) and Geraniums (particularly ...
Permaculture Design -
The core of the permaculture design ideology has always been supplying a design methodolgy for human habitation. This methodology helps the designer t...
Soil Substitutes for Sowing Seed -
Substitutes for soil are often used for indoor seed sowing. Most popular of these are vermiculite, perlite and milled (pulverized and sifted) sphagnum...
