While outdoor gardening activities during March in the West are at least six weeks to two months away there are many things the active gardener can be doing at this time of the year. If the gardener plans on growing his or her own a flower and vegetable transplants, this is the season to get started. In fact, some early transplant crops may already be started such as pansies, logbelia and celery.
Air-layering and Hormone Treatments
Easy-to-Grow House Plants
Once a garden plan has been prepared, the next consideration in good vegetable gardening is to select the best possible varieties of vegetables to be grown and to order the seeds. Since no one seed company has a monopoly on all the best varieties, it is a good idea to pick up several catalogs.
Any plant that must be replaced every year and only has flowers one time, is an annual. Annuals are grown from seeds and the major advantage of an annual is the lower cost. Thousands of plants may be grown from just one seed packet.
Leaf Propagation You can raise many different plants by using leaf propagation, by cutting off portions of the leaves as cuttings. This method is used with plants that do not produce a shoot freely. Some plants that can be propagated in this manner are the Begonia rex, Gloxinia, and the spider plant and African violet. There have been many methods of leaf cutting that have been adopted, but in any case a matured leaf has to be used. The leaf is prepared by cutting a notch just below the junction of the main vein. The leaf is laid with the bottom facing down on the top of a pan filled with sandy soil. Then the pan is covered with a piece of glass and put in a warm room or greenhouse, this is done in the spring or early summer time.
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Fences can be used as a trellis for roses or other vine type plants if they are open. If fencing is closed, it can be used as a guard against wind or sun, or as a privacy fence. The materials used to make the fence will determine largely on how it can be used. The most attractive fences are the ones made of wood in various forms, but there are some newer fences that can be made of asbestos-concrete and corrugated sheet metal, these are colorful and guard against rot much better. These types of fences are heavier and they are usually used in a zig-zag pattern to stand up against strong winds.
As many new gardeners quickly discover, there are two kinds of insects which you may find in your garden. The first are chewing insects that eat holes in the leaves of your plants. These pests include caterpillars, grasshoppers, beetles, snails, slugs, and earwigs. The second type is sucking insects that feed on your garden by pushing their mouths into the plant tissue and sucking out the juices. This type of insect includes aphids, scales, while flies, and mites.
If you have a small backyard, you\’ve probably found that designing a landscape plan for it is a big challenge. The lack of space can really put a damper on the plans you might have had in your mind, but now see that you can\’t pull off with the space available. To avoid over-cluttering your small space, instead consider getting a little bit creative with it.
