Posts Tagged ‘gardener’

FIGHTING PLANT ENEMIES

Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:07 Comments Off

The devices and implements used for fighting plant enemies are of two sorts:
(1) those used to afford mechanical protection to the plants.
(2) those used to apply insecticides and fungicides.
Of the first the most useful is the covered frame. It consists usually of a wooden box, some eighteen inches to two feet square and about eight [...]

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PLANTING SEEDS

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 21:22 Comments Off

Any reliable seed house can be depended upon for good seeds; but even so, there is a great risk in seeds. A seed may to all appearances be all right and yet not have within it vitality enough, or power, to produce a hardy plant.
If you save seed from your own plants you are [...]

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