Begonia and campanula hanging basket

Organic Compost Preparation: The following is all about the steps involved in Organic Compost Preparation. ORGANIC COMPOST PREPARATION Organic compost includes plant and animal by-products such as oil cakes fish manures and dried blood from slaughterhouses. Before their organic nitrogen used by the crops, it is converted through bacterial action into readily usable ammonical N and nitrate N. These manures are, therefore, relatively slow-acting, but they supply available N for a longer period.

Like with most things in life the cultivation of plants too has evolved over the years. From adorning just our gardens, today they have found their way onto our patios, porches, balconies, and even inside our homes. This blog explains, Growing plants in hanging baskets and what are the flowers, herbs, vegetables, and fruits you can grow in a hanging basket. Urbanization has resulted in the restriction of space which in turn has brought plant lovers across the globe to find innovative way

A strong colour theme is the key to this viola, campanula and euonymus container display. The vibrant golden foliage provides the backdrop for pretty violas and campanulas planted towards the front. The display will last for most of the summer, and you can recycle the foliage plants when it’s time to plant up for the autumn. Follow these easy steps to plant up your own viola and euonymus container, below.

Arisaema speciosum is an unusual perennial from the eastern Himalayas. It grows from fat, knobbly tubers, which are best planted singly in large pots for stability. You will probably find a shoot already emerging from one end of the rhizome, so plant it with this just poking through the compost. Keep it warm and well watered, and a bulging, pointed shoot will quickly develop into a mottled stalk, topped by three leaves. The flower (or, more correctly, the spathe and spadix) will develop alongs