Buy Perennial Flowers Seeds
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Perennial flower seeds are in high demand right now.
You can buy perennial flower seeds here.
How To Grow Peppers
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Growing peppers is fairly easy.
Make sure they get as much light as possible. Select an area in your garden or green house that receives full sun. Normal preparation of your soil, add plenty of compost, manure, and a general fertilizer.
Peppers like the weather hot. Transplant young seedlings outdoors after the last chance of frost. If the weather is still cool, delay transplanting a few days, and keep them in a coldframe, indoors or next to the house.
Pepper plants prefer moist soil. Avoid wet soil. Water regularly in the hot, dry summer months.
Add mulch around the peppers to keep down weeds, and to retain moisture. As the peppers develop, switch over to a fertilizer higher in Phosphorous and Potassium. Don’t use too much nitrogen. You will have a great looking bushy, green plant, but few fruit.
Tip: Peppers are self pollinators. Don’t plant hot and sweet peppers too close together because they can cross pollinate. It won’t affect the fruit of this year’s crop, but will show up if you save the seeds.
Program Sprinkler Timer
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Setting the timer on your lawn or irrigation system means starting with the beginning. Most timers are programmed with a basic concept for setting the current time and day and then setting each zone to operate a specific amount of time.
During the summer set the lawn zones to run a couple of cycles during the cool of the morning. By deep watering your lawn, shrubs, and trees you don’t have to irrigate every day. Check with your city to see what their watering days are. Most cities have an ordinance in place to allow watering your gardens and lawn only on certain days.
The amount of water you can apply in on cycle varies with the soil type you have. Two ten minute cycles allow the water to soak in better than one twenty minute cycle. You want the soil to absorb all the water you apply and then allow some time before applying the next cycle, this will reduce runoff. A cycle is the delivery of water for a determined amount of time to a group of valves.
