Lets take a step by step journey through building a high tensile fence. Fencing is an important aspect of animal keeping. Having a good fence is essential to keeping your animals safe and where they belong. It is also something that can be a large and expensive investment, particularly if you have to hire the…
Those Little Green Bugs Covering Your Plant Are Aphids
Aphids. If you have been gardening for any amount of time you have probably seen them. Fortunately, while unsightly, they are not as much of a concern to the health of your plants as many other pests. In most cases, they will not actually cause any damage to the health of your plants. Because of…
How To Do A Fecal Egg Count At Home
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How Do I Know If My Passion Flower Produces Fruit?
We get asked a lot of questions about passion fruit. What variety to grow for fruit? Does this hybrid fruit? Can I grow fruit in my climate? Will these two plants pollinate each other to produce fruit? Can I make my own hybrids? And the list goes on. So today, we thought we would take…
How To Get Started Breeding Parasite Resistant Sheep
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Right Plant, Right Place. How To Select Plants For Your Garden
Those beautiful gardens you admire in your neighborhood and magazines don’t happen by chance. A lot of planning goes into planting a garden. Additionally, it takes a lot of labor and money, so money, so here are some tips on how you can avoid being disappointed when plants you purchased fail to thrive or die….
How To Properly Deworm Your Sheep
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Wilts: How Can My Healthy Plant Suddenly Be Dead?
Last time we talked about root rot, and how one of the main symptoms is a plant that wilts down, never recovers and eventually dies. We mentioned that there were also other kinds of wilts including ones vectored by insects. While these wilts are also caused by bacteria and fungi, they are not quite the…
How To Control Barber Pole Worms Without Dewormer
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Root Rot Could Be What Is Killing Your Plants
Do you have a plant that wilted down and never recovered despite you watering it when you noticed it was wilted? Or is your plant experiencing dieback? Does it have yellow leaves and stunted growth? If so. you are likely dealing with root rot. As passion flower growers, root rot is something we are always…
