African Violets Care From Mr Shaffer’s Tropical Gardens
An article details how African violets thrive with proper light, ventilation, humidity, and temperature. It includes expert tips from Mr Shaffer on light needs, watering every three to four days, soil mix, and avoiding crown rot, plus notes on pests and terrarium humidity.
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Christmas Tree Industry Aids Forests Says Better Homes
The December Better Homes and Gardens reports that holiday trees help forests. About 37 million trees will be used this year with many sourced from non harming or improving forests. Large dealers demand good forest practices and support reforestation by leaving parent trees to seed seedlings. Thousands of saplings sprout, many six inches apart, and stands must be thinned to prevent overcrowding.
Frost Fight and Winter Plant Care Tips for Gardens
The article advises frost protection during late December or January with burlap and straw, mulching for tender plants, and watering frost damaged plants. It stresses not pruning frost injured shrubs until spring, and outlines propagation timing for deciduous shrubs and evergreens. It notes using sand for Transvaal daisies and suggests fresh evergreen stock for winter planting.
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Remember Your Gardening Friends At Christmas Time
A bygone note suggests Christmas gifts for gardeners including hand tools like trowels gloves and shears. It highlights female gardeners favoring fuchsias and begonias in hanging boxes and male gifts such as fertilizer spreaders sprayers wheelbarrows and lawn edgers alongside gardening books and guides.
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