Using Organic Herbicides & Weedkillers For Sustainable Growth
Written by bstanley in organic fertilizer, organic gardening, soil and fertilizer, sustainable gardening, weeds
With greater sustainable gardening concerns for the soil and environment, organic herbicides are being used more and more these days to assist plant production and yield better quality plants. The organic herbicide is considered better for weed control as it does not cause soil depletion or environmental damage.
Why Use Herbicides?
While gardening, it is often important identify weeds and to remove weeds using an organic herbicide. It is important that the herbicides used should not affect the plant nor harm the insects that might actually do it good. Dragonflies, honeybees and butterflies are often killed by pesticide sprays so proper herbicide use often helps in maintaining biodiversity. Also, organic herbicide contains ingredients used for human nutrition with its components being harmless.
Sustainable Ideas For Sustainable Gardening: How To Do It
Written by bstanley in Environment, Garden Care, care and watering, home gardening tips, organic gardening, sustainable gardening
Sustainable gardening implies maintaining a sustainable garden, one where resources are not used up more than they are produced. Organic sustainable gardening takes it one step further by growing without using any chemical fertilizers at all.
Sustainable gardening implies maintaining a sustainable garden, one where resources are not used up more than they are produced. Why Practice Organic Sustainable Gardening?
Food items grown practicing organic sustainable gardening are richer in vitamins and minerals because the soil has more healthy living organisms. Sustainable gardening is nothing new but just a recapitulation of the process gardeners have been using for ages together with some innovative practices. Cultivating a garden with sustainable ideas is a holistic approach drawing its outlines from environmental needs, biological science and more.
Moss Garden: Growing Your Own Moss Garden And Lawns
Written by bstanley in Uncategorized, garden method, lawn care, organic gardening
A moss garden is not only easy to maintain but if the Japanese are to be believed, growing moss led to a calm and peaceful state of mind. There are yellow, green, brown and even white varieties of mosses. While cushion mosses provide a cushioning effect to moss lawns, rock cap plant mosses covering the rock surface give it a rich green hue. There are even some plants that behave like mosses even though they are liverworts or hornworts.
What Are Plant Mosses?
Plant mosses, thought to have evolved from primitive vascular plants are very simple plants that lack conventional roots, stems and leaves. Usually hardy plants, mosses grow vertically, not just in moss gardens but almost everywhere except under the sea. These plant mosses are generally of little use to humans or animals but this type of moss gardening is undertaken because of the serenity and meditative calm they spread. Click here to read more …