Plant Watering Habits (NAPS) To increase the life span of your plants this summer, here are a few helpful gardening tips. According to Decor America Inc., a leading manufacturer in the production of self-watering plant pots, most people’s watering hab its consist of either deluging plants with too much water or ig noring them for weeks. To prevent gardening mishaps, experts recommend you plant in door and outdoor plants in self watering plantpots. These include the Cylinder line for houseplants and Roman line for the great out doors! Indoor and outdoor plantpots water from the roots up. automati cally combining the right amount of water and air to grow healthier flowers and shrubs. Easy-to-use, these indoor and outdoor plantpots come fully as sembled. To pot plants, gardeners need only fill the capillary pillars with polling soil, tapping it down firm ly before planting. 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The water well side opening is also perfect for adding liquid fertilizers allow ing direct access to plant’s roots. For more information regarding self-watering plantpots, please call Decor America Inc. at (800) 332-6711. form of supplements became a big seller. However, recent reports have linked these products to a rare and dangerous blood disor der; as a result, the Food and Drug Administration ordered the sup plements off the market. While more research is needed for the warm milk theory, there’s certain ly no harm and maybe some nutritional benefits in this practice! Time To Plant Bulbs RUTGERS. NJ. Fall is the time to think spring and plan bulb plantings. Among hardy “bulbs” suggested as being deer-resistant are; snowdrop, snowflake, scilla, grape hyacinth, crocus, chiono doxa, fritillary, allium, eranthis, crown imperial, iris and daffodil. Narcissus is die genus which in cludes those spring flowers we variously call narcissdus, doffodil, jongiui. There are 20,000 varieties of these popular springtime bloomers which can make selec tion a puzzle as well as a pleasure. Narcissus are grouped into 11 main divisions and 18 subdivi sions. Popular terms can distin guish them more simply. The common name “daffodil” should refer to trumpet-flowered narciccus - those in which the trumpet part of the flower is equal in length to or longer than what might commonly be called the pe tals. The name “jonquil” should refer only to certain species - N. BARTVILLE WELDING SHOP I l l' i 'I'I I'M < In i iull i 1 1 \ ! -n ll i,11 1 ’.,1111 1 k Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 4, 1993-B9 Jonquilla, N. Juncifolius - and their hybrids. It would be correct to call any of this huge group of plants narcissus. How to choose narcissus? Per sonal taste for color and form are probably the first considerations. Also important may be cost. Nar cissus should be planted in groups or drifts of a single variety to look their best Some varieties may be mote expensive than others, but “bargain price" bulbs may not be the answer, either. Any bulb, including narcissus needs a well-drained site, with some sun, and where after-bloom foliage, which must be left to die back naturally, will not be a “problem” either visually or phy sically. Planting details should be provided with the bulbs and will vary with species and variety. Soil should be prepared, as for any planting, with additions of fertiliz er, organic matter, and lime if soil pH is low.
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