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Aquarium Water - Liquid Gold for Your Garden
The best sites I have encountered to date are. I just love watching the little baby fish scurry around avoiding the cannibalistic monsters darting around the tank ready to make a meal of them at any given moment.
California
El Segundo
Aquarium Plant How To: Types Of Plants That Can Be Used In An Aquarium
They harbor beneficial bacteria and help prevent algae growth. When planted closely, it looks like a miniature shrub.Floating plants take root in water, but don't need to be anchored to the gravel.
Ohio
Willoughby
Aquarium to Terrarium
This is your drainage. I bought some charcoal filter replacements and broke them open. This article will explain how to create that paradise. If you were lucky enough to get the cover that goes with the terrarium you can use that.
California
El Segundo
Plants Watered With Fish Tank Water: Using Aquarium Water To Irrigate Plants
Read on to learn more about watering indoor or outdoor plants with aquarium water.“Dirty” fish tank water isn't healthy for fish, but it's rich in beneficial bacteria, as well as potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen and trace nutrients that will promote...
Ohio
Willoughby
My Toxic, Painful Garden Revisited: pruning considerations
In a previous article I introduced my readers to my particularly toxic, painful yard--full of all sorts of poisonous and potential very harmful plants.As time goes on I slowly learn that many of these plants do very well in this climate; perhaps too well.
California
El Segundo
Will Palm Trees Grow Back if You Cut Their Trunks?
The specific stalk or trunk that you cut off will never come back.A palm tree cannot heal itself if you cut the trunk.Cutting off the growing tip (crownshaft) of a single-trunked palm species effectively kills the tree entirely.
California
Santa Monica
How to Ship a Cactus
Add two or three layers of newspaper around the plant. Pour styrofoam peanuts into the top of the cardboard square to fill in any gaps between its sides and the cactus.Fill a cardboard box half full of Styrofoam peanuts.
California
Santa Monica
Essential Oil for Roly Poly Pests
When threatened, these bugs role themselves into balls resembling little pills, which also gives them the moniker, pill bug. Some of the essential oils that have shown to be effective against troublesome arthropods like roly-polies include pennyroyal...
California
Santa Monica
How to Kill Aphids Off a Hibiscus Tree Naturally
Spray the solution onto your plant between morning and noon when the plant is dry from nighttime dew, but it is not yet in the heat of the day. Viruses can be attracted to the open wound and the sticky residue aphids leave behind.Look over your hibiscus...
California
Santa Monica
Castor Bean Plant Laws
Additional provisions mandate that the area in which castor bean plants are grown be enclosed and/or inaccessible to prevent small children from entering. Refusal or failure to do so may result in police action.According to section 3-7.02, anyone engaged...
California
Santa Monica
How to Grow Salvia Divinorum
Growing your own Salvia divinorum has endless benefits, but I won't go into that. Make sure to water the Salvia, with the soil completely moist. Cuttings turn into full Salvia plants when grown properly, and this is how most people prefer to grow Salvia.You...
California
Santa Monica
What Liquids Do Plants Grow Best In?
This may lead to root blockages, meaning the plant will be unable to efficiently absorb nutrients. It is more viscous than water and is more difficult for the plants' roots to absorb.
California
Santa Monica
Once Corn Tassles, How Long Until the Cobs Are Ripe?
At this point, the kernels will have begun to yellow on the outside and will contain a runny, milky liquid inside. At this stage, the corn plant is ready to be pollinated. After pollination, the kernels begins forming within the ears of the corn cob.
California
Santa Monica
How Large Will a Bromeliad Grow?
Cryptanthus bahianus or fosterianus both spread to approximately 2 feet wide.Bromeliad growers who require small bromeliads confine their growth by providing the plants with its full light requirement while limiting fertilization and water.
California
Santa Monica
Caterpillars Are Eating My Desert Roses
It also kills up to 90 other common plant pests.While releasing one or two of the commercially available soldier bug eggs once or twice a month controls the caterpillars on a single desert rose, they're expensive for that purpose.
California
Santa Monica
How Are Conifers & Ferns Different?
Conifers reproduce through pollination of ovulate cones that eventually develop seeds.Conifers have woody stems and as a general rule are much larger than most ferns. Many conifers have needle- or scale-like leaves that are very different in shape and...
California
Santa Monica
Divisions of the Plant Kingdom
Plants are an essential part of the ecosystem. Pteridophyta plants, however have a vascular system, which allows them to transport fluid using the stem and leaves. The plant kingdom can be divided into four different sub divisions, that distinguish how...
California
Santa Monica
How to Prune a Tropical Ginger Plant
Once leaves turn yellow or brown, they will not become healthy again. Grasp the base of the stem with the dead or dying blossom. Removing these leaves directs the nutrients in the plant to the healthy parts.Look for any sign of disease on the plant leaves,...
California
Santa Monica
Does Bleach Affect Plant Growth?
These microorganisms provide aeration in the soil, help retain water and nutrients, and most importantly help to transfer nitrogen and other nutrients to the plant's root system for uptake.
California
Santa Monica
How to Care for Lichens
This allows the remaining lichen to repopulate.Place the lichen in a paper bag to transport it to your garden or another site. These plants combine and form a symbiotic relationship, with each plant benefiting from the other.
California
Santa Monica
How to Kill a Banana Tree Root
Sometimes the extensive root system, which can reach 18 feet long, becomes invasive to other plants. Each plant will enter a fruiting and flowering stage and be replaced by the next plant once it dies.Remove unwanted rhizome sections by cutting with a...
California
Santa Monica
Method of Gas Exchange in a Fungus
The fungus absorbs nutrients from the tree and passes them onto the parasite growth, taking necessary nutrients along for itself. Soil is made of many different substances, include particles of minerals, water, roots and organisms like fungi.
California
Santa Monica
How to Cook With the Aloe Vera Plant
Some people prefer to cut into the side and fillet the leaf as if it were a fish. Simmer aloe vera with your favorite spices for about 1/2 hour. Discard the skin, which can cause stomach upset in some people.Cook the aloe vera.
California
Santa Monica
Deadly Poisonous Plants of South Carolina
The leaves are light green and narrow. The flowers that cluster at the tip of the poisonous plant are funnel-shaped and either pink, yellow, white or red. The flowers are yellow-green to cream in color and are tubular.
California
Santa Monica
How to Make a Rooting Hormone
Chilled in the refrigerator, the hormone maintains its effectiveness for up to two months.As soon as you take cuttings from the plants you want to propagate, immediately place them in a container that contains enough of the willow water to immerse the...
California
Santa Monica
Sundew Adaptations
Other sundew habitats include places as diverse as rainforests and deserts.Drosera flowers follow the movement of the sun across the sky. Often found in swamps, these plants can thrive in sandy or acidic soil.
California
Santa Monica
How to Use Root Stimulator When Planting
Use the root stimulator very early in the growing season, when the plant's root development is in its most crucial and important stage.Fill a bucket with water, and add in enough root stimulator formula to make a diluted solution as stated on the package.
California
Santa Monica