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| The soil is parched and your flowers and plants are suffering. How can you keep your garden successful, especially when local watering restrictions are being enforced? There are creative ways to cope with hot, dry weather without breaking any laws. The keys are reducing evaporation, preventing weeds, recycling water and giving plants extra care. A few extra steps will see your plants through a drought.
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Field Guide
( Added: Wed Jul 20 2005 Hits: 264)
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| Rhizome — An underground stem that produces a new plant. Rhizomes are present or absent, strong or weak.
Stolon — A horizontal, above ground stem that takes root at various intervals and gives rise to new plants.
Crown — The area at the base of the plant where all growth of the grass stems. The grass will survive as long as the crown is not damaged.
Sheath — The tubular portion of the leaf which wraps around or encloses the stem. Edges of the sheath may join, overlap or be closed. They are also |
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| Spring is officially here! Now is the time to get outside and begin to prepare for the planting season. With the warmer days popping up in between the rain showers, pick a day that is warm and dry to begin your yard work. Putting time and energy into your garden bed before the season starts will get all your plants off to a good start! |
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| In the middle of winter most of us are inside only dreaming of what our garden will be once the temperatures warm up. As active gardeners we spend the winter months taking care of our houseplants, reading garden magazines, flipping through mail-order seed catalogs and planning for our garden in the New Year.
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How a Plant Works
( Added: Tue May 24 2005 Hits: 221)
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| A plant’s transport system does many of the same jobs that a human’s circulatory system does, but it is not called circulation because it does not go in a circle, as
the human bloodstream does. Plants have two transport systems: one carrying water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the top of the plant and the other
carrying sugars and other manufactured material from the leaves to all other parts of the plant. |
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