Pruning is a widely practiced gardening technique that involves cutting back or removing specific parts of a plant, such as branches, leaves, or buds. While pruning is commonly employed to enhance the health and appearance of plants, there are lingering concerns about whether this practice might harm the plants in the long run. In this…
Air-layering, or marcotting, propagates plants from stems still attached to their parent plant. This method allows you to clone woody plants that are difficult to root from cuttings. What trees are best suited for marcotting? Marcotting is suitable for fruit trees like figs, citrus, and mangoes. It suits ornamentals such as roses, hibiscus, magnolia, and…
There are many people who have gardens or have been gardening for either a long time or a short time and believe that adding Epsom salt to the soil in their garden will make their plants grow better. Most of the time they just think it works but there is no scientific evidence that this…