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Gardening & Global Warming
By admin | June 4, 2008
Did you know that the earth’s soil gives out carbon dioxide in the atmosphere 10 times more than all human activity? This comes from the pill bugs, microbes, fungi and worms when they breathe, digest food and then die. Although in the past plants have been capable of absorbing carbon dioxide caused by small-scale tillages, this isn’t the case nowadays.
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The increase of the globe’s average temperature is because of the carbon dioxide the soil emits when tilled. The good news is that tilling can be minimized by mulching or sheet composting.
To prevent an overwhelming amount of garden maintenance, apply a layer of mulch in the garden. Mulch material can be organic (bark, leaves, and straw) or non-organic (stones and plastic sheeting). There are many benefits to using mulch in the garden. Mulch helps retain moisture, insulates the soil, reduces weed growth, and improves the garden’s appearance. Consulting gardening information that pertains to mulching options may be helpful if you are at a loss for choices.
Get rid of Powdery mildew - Powdery mildew is the common fungus mostly affects your ornamental plants. This will create white film on the leaves of the plants in your garden. Even other ornamental plants such as Sand cherry and Dogwoods are also getting affected with this fungus. Efficient gardening is necessary to curtail the growth of this fungus. You can easily prevent this by spraying general fungicide in the garden centre.
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Prevention of Pythium Blight - If you’re in the north and also having perennial Rye grass, then you ought to be very careful not to leave your grass wet at night. A dreadful fungus called Pythium Blight may take its upper hand, if you leave your lawn wet in the night because this fungus love to grow in high humid condition mostly, in the night.
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