The Lawn Gardening

Being a perennially warm climate plant, the umbrella plant is a very attractive household plant. It improves air quality indoors and purifies the toxicity in the air indoors and outdoors. The Umbrella plant also uses to treat some skin diseases. But being a medicinal plant, it is not suitable to consume directly.  Although umbrella plants can grow bigger and wider management and trimming are important. It is quite practical that in lack of proper care, you may lose your umbrella plant.  Umbrella tree trimming (USA) I hope you know the seriousness of trimming and pruning of umbrella plant. Let's understand this in detailed steps but first, you need to know the basics. I'll start with them first. When to trim the umbrella tree?  In the early days, an Umbrella tree or Schefflera plant grows at an ordinary growing rate until it faces any disturbance in soil fertility or any external change.  Umbrella plants need pruning and trimming from time to time to keep the plant in...

Kalanchoe plant is a low maintenance, warm climate, succulent plant that is a very good choice as a houseplant.  Indoor, it can grow in any season. But having a perennial nature, it doesn't remain green for a year alone.  Although it is a warm climate plant but can grow for a few seasons in cool climates too. But in snow regions, they can't handle further nights and temperature fall.  Kalanchoe plants indoor care I'm here to help you to take care of kalanchoe plants indoors in various seasons. But first, I want you to know the basics of kalanchoe plants in case you don't know much.  Kalanchoe plant features Kalanchoe plant belongs to a succulent perennial group of indoor plants. You can easily identify them by following-  Leaves - Succulent leaves, light green to green   Size - 1 ft to 1.5 ft Flower color - Flower pink, orange Nature - Perennial  Growing conditions of Kalanchoe Friends, let's understand the basics of kalanchoe plants first. You sh...

Small shrubs are very good for decoration and landscaping in lawns, yards, and gardens. Apart from that shrubs have many climate-friendly advantages too.  Some varieties of shrubs can grow too tall, so they create a shadow. This shadow sometimes creates stress for lawns, house owners, etc. For that, people have excuses to remove them permanently or want to transplant them somewhere else.  Let's understand how this process happens in detail.  How to remove a large shrub? Removal of large shrubs depends on the purpose of removal. One may want to remove it forever but in a few cases, one may want to transplant it somewhere else.  Don't worry, I'm here to help you in both situations. But before that, I want to confirm that you know to run the basic cutting machines and tools used. If you never touched a tool in your lifetime, and still want to do this process, take the help of an expert first.  Let's understand the easiest method without using heavy machines to...

Even Arizona poppy doesn't belong to the poppy plant family but still, they have some behavior like poppy plants. Originally, The Arizona poppy is a wildflower that likes warm climate conditions and can handle some dry conditions.  Arizona poppy needs different steps to care for in different seasons throughout its annual life cycle. Let's understand Arizona poppy care step by step.  Arizona poppy care Even with the least care in the basic growth period, Arizona poppy flowers need a proper eye at some stage.  Don't worry I'm here to make things easier and simple for you from starting care to the flower blooming caring tips. Identification of Arizona poppy Scientific name- Kallstroemia grandiflora Nature- Expanding nearby  Color- Leaves green, flowers dark yellow Plant type - Wildflower Size- 1.5 ft to 3.5 ft tall, wide up to 2 ft Shape- Leaves grow a gap on the same stem as tamarind leaves, the flower is too bigger than the leaves. Flowers- One on each plant with...

There are many organic types of compost that we can use in our vegetables and other plants like vermicompost, chicken manure, cow dung compost, goat dung manure, biomass compost, etc.  Using organic biomass is always easier because it decomposes easily. Using wood ash for fertilization or using it with compost is a very different thing from other types of compost.  Here, I'll try to tell you about the usage of ash in your garden in both ways directly and by mixing it with compost.  Ash composting in garden in USA Well, it would not be correct to call Ash as pure decomposed organic compost. Let's understand then it briefly at first.  What is Ash composting? Using a portion of ash in organic compost to make the compost nature acidic to balance the soil, is called ash composting. Because Ash is alkaline, it can reduce the acidic compost and soil too. Although the decomposition of Ash is a slow and long process using it in a decomposed compost mixture helps very eff...

The Aerogarden method is a futuristic and advanced method of growing food without soil even inside a room throughout the year. Although its production cost is higher than ordinary methods of farming. Presently, there are ready-made kits available in the markets that claim to be helpful and easier for Aerogardening. But for those who can do organic farming in their yard or garden, is it more advanced or productive?  Here, we compared both organic gardening and The Aerogarden method with their estimated cost for producing 1kg of food too.   Is Aerogarden safe? Aerogarden methods are getting popular in the USA, but still, people have doubts mind that Is it safe to have an Aerogarden or Aerogarden foot? We'll discuss it here in detail but before that take a look at the brief about Aerogarden.  Brief on Aerogarden  The Aerogarden method of farming is an indoor method of growing various vegetables and plants without soil, sunlight, and unwanted weeds/spontaneous plan...

Having more than 4 varieties of weed, chickweeds are very common in warm climate lawn grasses. Some of these group weeds are annual and some of them are perennial.  Mouse-ear chickweed is a perennial weed but common chickweeds are annual in lawns. If you have a lawn in Bermuda or St Augustine, then maybe someday common mistakes will cause chickweeds on your lawn.  Let's understand how to identify them and remove them explicitly. Removing chickweed from the lawn Common chickweeds belong to herbs in variety but their excessive consumption can cause many internal allergies or diarrhea, upset stomach, etc. But still, sometimes, we can use them for medicines.  Let's understand how to identify these chickweeds in the lawn. Identification of chickweed in lawn  Every variety of chickweed has different shape of leaves and different color of flowers that blooms on it. Following are the identification factors of common chickweed in the lawn-  Leaves - Small, rounded point...