What is the Right Plant and Where Do I Put It?
By james ellison
Know if your plants are disease-susceptible. Your choice of
plants used in your garden is as important as the soil that you
put those plants in. Select plants that are disease resistant and
they will be much more easy to maintain and will give you the
look you are wanting. Food for thought is use
plants that are native to your area.
The experience you get will tell you which are the troublesome
plants. Obtain your plants from reliable sources and ask those
people for their suggestions. They should be happy to help you
because of return sales. The local cooperative extension service
should provide much needed info for you. Some catalogs
will list disease resistance plants.
Experience will eventually tell you which plant diseases are most
troublesome in your region. Your local nursery and cooperative
extension service are also good sources for information on local
diseases and disease-resistant plants. Seed and nursery
catalogs often list disease resistance in plant descriptions.
There are resistant varieties that exist for such diseases as
apple scab, armillaria root rot, bean mosaic virus, blueberry
mummyberry, cherry viruses, juniper tips and twig blights, lilac
bacterial blight, powdery mildew, pea enation mosaic virus,
potato scab, black spot, rust, tomato fusarium and root-knot
nematode, fireblight, verticillium wilt, and other diseases.
What does the wrong exposure do to your plants? Take a long
look at the conditions you have in your garden and choose your
plants accordingly. Plants are usually clearly marked whether
they prefer sun, partial shade or complete shade.
Shade plants grown in sun turn yellowish and grow poorly. They
will get a sunburn which will develope dead spots on their
leaves. Avoid south or west exposure.
The sun lovers are often stunted and spindly when grown in the
shade. If they grow at all, they are usually weak looking and
have few leaves. Reduced flowering on many plants may result
from shade placement.
Use water conservation landscaping whenever you can. Most
gardeners in drought climates have come to realize the
importance of water conservation.But in areas where water is
plentiful, however, waste in the garden is way too common. We
take our water supply for granted by wasting more than we
ever need and in many areas, more groundwater is pumped
than nature can replace through precipitation and runoff.
Why not use drought-tolerant plants. These plants grow well
with little water once they are established.
Mulch every plant you have.
Some grass species need less water than others, but lawns
generally need a large amount of water to stay green and
growing. If you replace the grass with drought-tolerant ground
covers or flowers you'll save a large amount of water and even -
money.
Probably your favorite plants will have high water requirements.
By grouping and mulching these plants allows you to irrigate
them together, thus reducing water waste.
What about fruit-pollination requirements! Many beginning
gardeners are confused when their fruit trees fail to bear fruit.
Could be a pollination problem.
Certain types of trees produce bigger and more abundant fruit
with cross-pollination between different cultivars. The others,
cross-pollinating is mandatory to get any fruit at all.
Learn a fruit's pollination requirements before planting. If your
space is limited, pick a self-pollinating fruit, such as European-
type plums or almost any of the peach cultivars.
Pollination will not happen without insects, butterflies or
hummingbirds. When chemical pesticides are routinely used by a
neighbor or yourself, the honeybees and other pollinating
insects can be reduced so that fruit production suffers. Go
organic.
About the Author
James Ellison makes it easy for you to understand picking plants and knowing where to put them. If you need to know more about organic gardening visit: www.basic-info-4-organic-fertilizers.com
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