There are a bunch of baby ones all over the plants on my patio and they are eating all the leaves. Is there a good pesticide or something someone can recommend?
Green crickets are eating my plants! How do I get rid of them?
Go to Walmart or Home Depot and get some liquid "Sevin" (carbaryl) insecticide, this will control the hoppers and anything else eating on your shrubs. It comes in various forms.... a concentrate mix, a ready to use 32oz spray, and a hose spray applicator formula. Here is a link with a pic and info on the product. Hope this answers your question.
http://www.yardlover.com/search.php?keyw...
**Billy Ray**
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Reply:Try getting some raid garding poison. It won't kill youre plants so don't worry.
Reply:First of all are they grasshoppers, or are they really small then they are affids. If they are grasshopprs you buy a praying mantis egg sac at the garden section of your hardware store and hatch it so the mantisses will eat the grasshoppers, or if they are affids then go buy the bag of ladybugs at the garden section at your hardware store and they will eat the affids.
Reply:just go to the store (Lowes/Home Depot or Wally World) they have all kinds of plant sprays...you should have sprayed BEFORE the bugs showed up, in the spring...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
How can I preserve collected plants in a book?
I want to do a a project where I collect plants, mosses, etc. from an old growth forest and press them in a book.
What is the best way to preserve them so they don't lose color or fall apart?
How can I preserve collected plants in a book?
The pressing process drys the plant as well as flattens it out. Old books are romantic and nostalgic for this purpose but not very practical. You should get two sheets of blotter paper, some news paper, and a very thick book. Cut the blotter paper the size of the book pages, cut the news paper the size of the book pages or a little smaller. When you pick some moss or a flower make sure it is a single plant or at best just a few. Open the book to the pages near the end. Place a piece of blotter paper down, then a piece of news paper, then place the plant on the paper as you want it to look, then put a piece of news paper on top of it, then the last piece of blotter paper. Close the book so that the thickest part of the book is on top of the plant. Let it press and dry for about a week. Do not open it a lot be patient. After a week take the blotter arrangement out of the book, set it aside and let it dry out for one day. Now get a regular piece of paper that you want to use. Get a flat piece of glass from an old window or something, also a formica counter top will do. Put some elmers glue on the counter top and add water to make it real runny. Carefully pick up the plant, place it carefully in the glue and then carefully place it on the paper the way you want it to look. Let it dry and then put the page into a notebook etc. Botanist press plants just this way and then keep in a storage building called a Herbarium. Come to St. Louis and vist the Missouri Botanical Gardens. They have a Herbarium that stores over 2 million plants. They have all been pressed and dryed in this fashion with plant presses. Some plants specimens are over 300 years old and you can still see green leaves, color of the flowers, and brown roots. Enjoy your plant collecting.
Reply:no idea about mosses, but for flowers and plants you can place them between 2 pieces of plastic and then place them inside a big fat book
Reply:Ask ur botany professor
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What is the best way to preserve them so they don't lose color or fall apart?
How can I preserve collected plants in a book?
The pressing process drys the plant as well as flattens it out. Old books are romantic and nostalgic for this purpose but not very practical. You should get two sheets of blotter paper, some news paper, and a very thick book. Cut the blotter paper the size of the book pages, cut the news paper the size of the book pages or a little smaller. When you pick some moss or a flower make sure it is a single plant or at best just a few. Open the book to the pages near the end. Place a piece of blotter paper down, then a piece of news paper, then place the plant on the paper as you want it to look, then put a piece of news paper on top of it, then the last piece of blotter paper. Close the book so that the thickest part of the book is on top of the plant. Let it press and dry for about a week. Do not open it a lot be patient. After a week take the blotter arrangement out of the book, set it aside and let it dry out for one day. Now get a regular piece of paper that you want to use. Get a flat piece of glass from an old window or something, also a formica counter top will do. Put some elmers glue on the counter top and add water to make it real runny. Carefully pick up the plant, place it carefully in the glue and then carefully place it on the paper the way you want it to look. Let it dry and then put the page into a notebook etc. Botanist press plants just this way and then keep in a storage building called a Herbarium. Come to St. Louis and vist the Missouri Botanical Gardens. They have a Herbarium that stores over 2 million plants. They have all been pressed and dryed in this fashion with plant presses. Some plants specimens are over 300 years old and you can still see green leaves, color of the flowers, and brown roots. Enjoy your plant collecting.
Reply:no idea about mosses, but for flowers and plants you can place them between 2 pieces of plastic and then place them inside a big fat book
Reply:Ask ur botany professor
Will outdoor plants in the garden and in patio pots tolerate watering with bath water?
I want to reuse the water from my bath to water outside plants this summer I am astonished to discover that i use upto 200 litres of water in one bath every day here in England I am on a water meter and it is expensive. Will using this water with residual shampoo and soap in it damage or kill the plants?
Will outdoor plants in the garden and in patio pots tolerate watering with bath water?
Bathwater is fine to use on mature plants, but don't use it on seedlings.
Reply:Bath water?
Our grandparents used to have very few garden pests. We used to joke about throwing the baby out with the bath water. Well, we should keep the baby but the soaps were a natural deterrent to pests when the bath water was thrown outside so go ahead and water your plants/garden/lawn with the bath water.
Right now, I mix dish soap with water to use when I cannot afford insecticidal soap to spray my plants.
Reply:yes, plants do just fine on bath water and even used dishwater.
Reply:Must be fresh, you cant shampoo and set a plant! Catch the rainwater in an empty dutbin
Reply:Should thrive on it. But don't over water.
Reply:yes it would.
Reply:do it
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Will outdoor plants in the garden and in patio pots tolerate watering with bath water?
Bathwater is fine to use on mature plants, but don't use it on seedlings.
Reply:Bath water?
Our grandparents used to have very few garden pests. We used to joke about throwing the baby out with the bath water. Well, we should keep the baby but the soaps were a natural deterrent to pests when the bath water was thrown outside so go ahead and water your plants/garden/lawn with the bath water.
Right now, I mix dish soap with water to use when I cannot afford insecticidal soap to spray my plants.
Reply:yes, plants do just fine on bath water and even used dishwater.
Reply:Must be fresh, you cant shampoo and set a plant! Catch the rainwater in an empty dutbin
Reply:Should thrive on it. But don't over water.
Reply:yes it would.
Reply:do it
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What plants are nitrogen loving plants?
At your local Starbucks they have packaged up the coffee grounds and make them available for you to take them home for free! The grounds are naturally plentiful in plant-goodie-nitrogen’s for your foliage. If you go in and ask, its call 'Grounds for your Garden'!
However, I do not know which ones of the plants in my garden are nitrogen loving plants. What if I only have nitrogen Hating plants??!!! Yelp - Help!
What plants are nitrogen loving plants?
Coffee grounds have an N-P-K 2 - 0.3 - 0.2
Coffee grounds are highly acidic, so are best for use in alkaline soils or on acid loving plants. Place them on your rhodies, azaleas, maples, peris, trilliums or camellias.
I bring home two 5 gallon buckets a week so most has to go in the compost but I put a lot directly in the yard mixed with mulch or with compost. It does smell like coffee grounds though.
Coffee grounds are recommended as a home remedy for keeping slugs and snails at bay but a caffeine solution is much more effective. A cup of drip brewed coffee has about 115 milligrams of caffeine enough to kill most small slugs. Just spray it on as an organic slug control.
Reply:There is no such thing as a nitrogen hating plant. All plants use nitrogen as a part of their metabolism. However, the picture is a bit more complex than than. Plants must also have the proper PH and I would suspect that coffee grounds might cause harm to more sensitive plants if you just dump them directly in your garden. The nitrogen also needs to be in a form than can be readily absorbed by the plant. This is what composting of pretty much any organic matter does. It breaks it down so the plants can use the goodies. The thing to watch out for is that the composting process itself can deplete the surrounding soil of nutrients even though the end result is a nice nitrogen rich compost that plants will love.
If I were you I would add the coffee grounds to your compost pile rather than directly to your garden and add in the composted material each time you turn your soil in preparation for the next planting.
Reply:Well, basically all plants need nitrogen to survive. I'm not so sure that coffee grounds have nitrogen in them though, I'd have to study on that.
Fertilizer contains NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium)
Reply:I would say all plants love the nitrogen. So spead the coffee grounds into the soil.
Reply:The short answer is -- all of them.
Almost all plants require nitrogen in the soil, but it can be difficult for some plants to attain -- especially if the soil has a low organic content. As a composter, I mix carbon- and nitrogen-heavy ingredients together for the optimal mixture of nutrients.
Incidentally, coffee grounds are a regular addition to my compost pile and will be mixed into my garden when it's ready. Thanks for the tip about Starbucks, though. I'll ask my local store if they can spare any grounds.
However, I do not know which ones of the plants in my garden are nitrogen loving plants. What if I only have nitrogen Hating plants??!!! Yelp - Help!
What plants are nitrogen loving plants?
Coffee grounds have an N-P-K 2 - 0.3 - 0.2
Coffee grounds are highly acidic, so are best for use in alkaline soils or on acid loving plants. Place them on your rhodies, azaleas, maples, peris, trilliums or camellias.
I bring home two 5 gallon buckets a week so most has to go in the compost but I put a lot directly in the yard mixed with mulch or with compost. It does smell like coffee grounds though.
Coffee grounds are recommended as a home remedy for keeping slugs and snails at bay but a caffeine solution is much more effective. A cup of drip brewed coffee has about 115 milligrams of caffeine enough to kill most small slugs. Just spray it on as an organic slug control.
Reply:There is no such thing as a nitrogen hating plant. All plants use nitrogen as a part of their metabolism. However, the picture is a bit more complex than than. Plants must also have the proper PH and I would suspect that coffee grounds might cause harm to more sensitive plants if you just dump them directly in your garden. The nitrogen also needs to be in a form than can be readily absorbed by the plant. This is what composting of pretty much any organic matter does. It breaks it down so the plants can use the goodies. The thing to watch out for is that the composting process itself can deplete the surrounding soil of nutrients even though the end result is a nice nitrogen rich compost that plants will love.
If I were you I would add the coffee grounds to your compost pile rather than directly to your garden and add in the composted material each time you turn your soil in preparation for the next planting.
Reply:Well, basically all plants need nitrogen to survive. I'm not so sure that coffee grounds have nitrogen in them though, I'd have to study on that.
Fertilizer contains NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium)
Reply:I would say all plants love the nitrogen. So spead the coffee grounds into the soil.
Reply:The short answer is -- all of them.
Almost all plants require nitrogen in the soil, but it can be difficult for some plants to attain -- especially if the soil has a low organic content. As a composter, I mix carbon- and nitrogen-heavy ingredients together for the optimal mixture of nutrients.
Incidentally, coffee grounds are a regular addition to my compost pile and will be mixed into my garden when it's ready. Thanks for the tip about Starbucks, though. I'll ask my local store if they can spare any grounds.
Where can i buy carnivorous plants around cupertino san jose?
i want to buy carnivorous plants and im wondering where i can buy them, ive already been to california carnivores but i was wondering where u can get them closer.
Where can i buy carnivorous plants around cupertino san jose?
Have you tried online sources? eBay may be a good place to look and find some great deals. I have sold picture plants and Venus fly traps on there before.
Where can i buy carnivorous plants around cupertino san jose?
Have you tried online sources? eBay may be a good place to look and find some great deals. I have sold picture plants and Venus fly traps on there before.
How can I measure the biomass of a plant in a certain area without pulling up plants?
I am doing an experiment to see if the biomass of Marram grass changes as you move over sand dunes (does exposure affect biomass) but need a way to measure biomass without pulling up plants, drying them and weighing them all, as this is illegal! Any ideas?
How can I measure the biomass of a plant in a certain area without pulling up plants?
Perhaps you can isolate a certain area and measure the CO2 consumption during photosynthesis. This can be related the biomass.
How can I measure the biomass of a plant in a certain area without pulling up plants?
Perhaps you can isolate a certain area and measure the CO2 consumption during photosynthesis. This can be related the biomass.
How to bring out red color in aquarium plants? Which area should be taken care off, Fertiliser or light?
I am having a 78 gallon tank with 3.0 watt/gallon FL and sand gravel, although the plants are growing well, the red plants are not showing their true red colors rather turning green. Nitrate level is 2 ppm in tank water. Please suggest how to bring the red color?
How to bring out red color in aquarium plants? Which area should be taken care off, Fertiliser or light?
Watts per gallon is a HORRIBLE "rule", "guideline", or any other term you may wish to give it... it's about as useful as "one inch of fish per gallon of water" (which is crap). WPG doesn't account for tank depth, spectrum, lumens, reflectors, and true output, just how much energy is being used. I could put 50 15 watt incandescent bulbs over a 20 gallon tank and still never get any plants (other than algae and maybe Java Moss and Java Fern) to grow, even though it's nearly 40 watts per gallon. On a large tank like yours, the rule falls apart further. With so much water to penetrate, something like a standard fluorescent bulb or even a compact fluorescent bulb will not be able to reach the bottom of the tank. For such tall tanks, metal halides, mercury vapor, or LED lights would be necessary to apply the "rule".
Moving on... If none of your would-be red plants are displaying their true colors, the most likely cause is iron deficiency, which can be remedied with specific fertilization. Flourish Iron or any similar fertilizers will work to feed the plants this necessary element.
Reply:If you don't have any low light plants, you can increase the light to 5 watts per gallon, but watch out for any algal blooms. To avoid algae blooms, add more fertilizer, maybe twice as much. You also need to add more iron, which enhances the chlorophyll, either red or green, and it also strengthens the plant itself. You may also want to inject CO2, whether yeast method or the more expensive ones. Good luck with your plants.
Reply:i think the lights are fine
you need more nitrate and pottasium to stimulate root growth, leaf growth and colouring
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How to bring out red color in aquarium plants? Which area should be taken care off, Fertiliser or light?
Watts per gallon is a HORRIBLE "rule", "guideline", or any other term you may wish to give it... it's about as useful as "one inch of fish per gallon of water" (which is crap). WPG doesn't account for tank depth, spectrum, lumens, reflectors, and true output, just how much energy is being used. I could put 50 15 watt incandescent bulbs over a 20 gallon tank and still never get any plants (other than algae and maybe Java Moss and Java Fern) to grow, even though it's nearly 40 watts per gallon. On a large tank like yours, the rule falls apart further. With so much water to penetrate, something like a standard fluorescent bulb or even a compact fluorescent bulb will not be able to reach the bottom of the tank. For such tall tanks, metal halides, mercury vapor, or LED lights would be necessary to apply the "rule".
Moving on... If none of your would-be red plants are displaying their true colors, the most likely cause is iron deficiency, which can be remedied with specific fertilization. Flourish Iron or any similar fertilizers will work to feed the plants this necessary element.
Reply:If you don't have any low light plants, you can increase the light to 5 watts per gallon, but watch out for any algal blooms. To avoid algae blooms, add more fertilizer, maybe twice as much. You also need to add more iron, which enhances the chlorophyll, either red or green, and it also strengthens the plant itself. You may also want to inject CO2, whether yeast method or the more expensive ones. Good luck with your plants.
Reply:i think the lights are fine
you need more nitrate and pottasium to stimulate root growth, leaf growth and colouring
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