Posts Tagged ‘Agriculture’

Fern are beautiful plants that can adapt well. They  make great indoor plants. They are fairly easy to care for.

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A great thing to get a plant lover at Christmastime is a Christmas cacti. These plants are easy to take care of and they are a great addition to poinsettias at Christmas.

These are much different than your run of the mill cactus. These plants come from the rain forest verses the desert. With them being from different places they are use to different environments and should be treated different.
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House plant are living organisms that can get diseases or become damaged when they are attacked by other living organisms. Here are a few tips on identifying them and solving the problem: Read the rest of this entry »

Pineapple

I read about this in a book once, so I decided to try it and to my surprise it has worked.

First what you do is slice the top off of a fresh pineapple, leaving the top row of flesh intact. Then you let it sit out and dry for a day or two. Read the rest of this entry »

Peperomias are low growing foliage plants. These plants have thick leaves and they grow less than 12 inches tall. Allot of people like the wrinkled-leaved varieties of the paperomia. Some of these would be the Emerald Ripple, Little Fantasy and the Tricolor. The Emerald Ripple gets to be 3 to 4 inches tall. The little Fantasy gets 2 1/2 to 3 inches tall and the Tricolor gets to 3 to 4 inches tall. Read the rest of this entry »

There are a few different ways to sterilize soil. One way is a formaldehyde drench. I’m not a big fan of this because I like to do thing organically, but it is one way so I will tell you how. Read the rest of this entry »

Terrariums are basically bottles with live plants in them.

First to make a terrariums, you need to find the right kind of bottle. You can use a fish bowl, wine jug or   bottle that is deep enough and the opening should be large enough to put the plants in. Read the rest of this entry »

Propagating From Runners

Some plants produce runners or small plants form the parent plant. A couple of examples would be the strawberry begonia and the spider plant. To root the strawberry begonia you will first need to cut the runner away from the parent, then cut the runner off the baby plant. Read the rest of this entry »

If you travel allot or like me I have to take a lot of mini trips for my daughters meets, you might be wondering what you will do with your houseplants while you are gone. You do have some options besides hoping it makes it while your away. Some people have someone else to look in on them, and that’s a great idea if you have someone who will do that for you, but I don’t. Read the rest of this entry »

Houseplant Diseases can cause a lot of problems for your houseplant but another thing that can affect it and cause your houseplant to look poor is bugs. There are many different kinds and they all affect your plant in a different way. The whitefly is one of the bugs that can affect your plant. If you shake the plant and and you see a waxy, white bug flying around the leaves that is probably what you are seeing.
Aphids are like the whiteflies but they move slower and they are green or yellow and they cluster, and they are more rounded in shape. Mealy bugs are are powdery insect that cluster on the underside of the leaves, they create small sacks that look like wet cotton. Read the rest of this entry »