Backyard Garden Blog

Local Councils and health departments have a duty to improve the quality of people’s lives and their general living arrangements when possible. For an older family to fall can easily cause injury such as broken bones and hips and this can end up in lengthy periods of hospital care. Often tiny jobs such as fixing loose carpets or fitting a hand rail can stop a fall and avoid a lot of nonessential distress to the individual

Slowly-releasing fertilizers are most appropriate for your lawn if you need the nutrients dispersed little by little over a length of time. These fertilizers are produced with the average gardener in mind, and available at most home and hardware suppliers.

Sugar ants, are a nuisance pest in North America and are very abundant. These persistent ants are very hard to see and are also called “piss ants”. They are found in North America and are many species. Unfortunatly to the untrained eye, they all seem to look the same.

There’s nothing extra ordinary about the earwig. No super hard shell that keeps pesticides from penetrating, they’re not fast enough to out run even a sleepy eye housewife with a fly swatter and yet it seems you can’t kill these things. In reality it’s not that you don’t smoosh the thing all over your bathroom floor on the bottom of your shoe, it’s dead alright. It is however that with one dead another pops up in its place. Not so much like german roaches mind you but later that day or perhaps even a week later you’ll find another wayward earwig near the spot where his kin earlier lost his life. It is difficult at times to control the earwig let alone achieve zero population in or around your home.

Erecting good quality fencing to mark the boundaries around your home is commonly a big expense, especially when you need to contain a large area.

Orchids have the reputation of being difficult to grow in the West. Gardeners shy away from trying to grow them because they think that they are a problem to grow and because they are expensive. This is easily understood, but there is more to the story than that. The fact is that most countries have their own native orchid species, so it is possible to grow orchids wherever you live, if you pick the right species.

We kind of make a distinction between ‘chemicals’ and ‘natural products’. This is actually quite strange, because everything can be reduced to its chemical ingredients. Not only that, but government organizations, such as America’s FDA, has to approve chemicals, whereas natural chemicals are completely unregulated.