Using Hydrogen Peroxide to treat vegetable plants for powdery mildew.
YouTube video by Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden)
Category Archives: Gardening Tips
Gardening Tips: Tomato Plants SAR
How to use aspirin on tomato plants to prevent diseases:
“The concept is well researched and documented. The aspirin mimics a hormone in the tomato plant used to trigger tomato stress defenses. This is call the Systemic Acquire Resistance (SAR) response. Your beefsteak is fooled into beefing up its natural defenses before fungal leaf diseases arrive. This makes it harder for future diseases to establish on their leaves.”
Gardening Tip
Feed your potted plants monthly with liquid fertilizer, because increased summer watering quickly washes nutrients out of the soil.
Gardening Tip
To help tomatoes pollinate: Using you finger, flick each bloom during the driest part of the day. Do this two or three times per week. You can also gently shake a larger plants to spread its pollen.
Rose Care
Controlling Diseases and Aphids on Your Roses booklet, by the OSU Extension Services, discusses the most common problems with roses: black spot, rust, powdery mildew, and aphids and the conditions that favor infection. It offers preventative measures and suggestions on how to control rose diseases and pests.
Read it here… Controlling Diseases and Aphids on Your Roses.
Birds in the Garden
The following is a summary of Wild Birds Unlimited owner, Laura Fleming’s, talk on “Birds in the Garden”
There are 4 key elements to attracting birds to your yard.
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- Water 2. Shelter 3. Nesting Spaces 4. Food
Photo from Wild Birds Unlimited – Nature shop
- Water 2. Shelter 3. Nesting Spaces 4. Food
Water: it’s VERY crucial to birds, so providing a birdbath with fresh water, or a saucer of water on the ground is very beneficial in attracting birds to your yard.
Shelter & Nesting Spaces: Different types of birds need different types of habitat, so planting a variety of plans in your gardens encourages birds of all kinds to visit your garden. By planting a mixture of deciduous and conifer large trees, small trees and shrubs in your yard provides natural shelters and nest building areas. Birds are attracted to edges where they can escape, so a plant hedgerow and/or a variety of small & large shrubs & trees on the perimeter of your yard.
Read here: Plants for Birds
Food: Many kinds of flowers and grasses provide food and also nesting building materials. Some natural food sources in your yard should be: Seed-producing flowers, berry-laden shrubs, a healthy insect population living in leaf litter and fruit trees. Be a messy gardener; leave leaf litter and dead trees (snags) in your yard to enhance your bird habitat. Supplement food sources with bird feeders. Different birds like different foods so supply a variety of foods in many feeders throughout your yard; hanging at a different heights.
* Read here: Seed Preference Guide
Submitted by: Carlotta Lucas