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Adding Nitrogen to the Soil

12/11/13 12:02 PM

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Using your Pet's Hair in garden: Adding Nitrogen to the Soil

The excess hair brushed from your pet or even the clippings of your own hair can be used as mulch or may even go into the compost pile.

 

It can actually contribute the much-needed nitrogen to the soil. 

 

 

 

Tannic acid in tea is great for acid-loving plants like roses and ferns. 

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Deadheading garden flowers

7/11/13 7:09 PM

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Garden maintenance activity: Deadheading garden flowers

Deadheading allows the plant to divert all the energy in better growth of the plant and additional flowers and you will be able to enjoy more blooms from a larger and healthier plant.

 

Removing the spent flowers is an important garden maintenance activity.

 

 

 

Tannic acid in tea is great for acid-loving plants like roses and ferns. 

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Energy Boosters for soil

4/11/13 5:28 PM


Tips for Nitrogen & Acid Loving plants :

Tea grounds (the residue remaining after brewing coffee) increase nutrient levels and improve soil quality as they decompose. Thus they prove to be great plant supplements and make great addition to compost piles.

 

Tannic acid in tea is great for acid-loving plants like roses and ferns. 

 

 

Tannic acid in tea is great for acid-loving plants like roses and ferns. 

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Growing Potatoes at home is really easy.Potatoes can be grown easily from seed potatoes. A seed potato is nothing more than an ordinary potato, with at least one “eye”.

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Cacti and other succulents are accustomed to arid climates and prefer soil with good drainage.As it is a desert plant, sunlight is a major factor for its growth and life.The low maintenance, less water requiring and easy to care plant is not just unique in appearance but also flowers beautifully at times.

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Cactus requires very little water and care. So you can grow cactus without much effort.
The growth of cactus is a slow process. Usually it takes months years to know how a particular cactus looks.

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