What is the right plant and where do I put it?

What is the right plant and where do I put it?

Know if your plants are susceptible to diseases. Choosing the plants to use in your garden is just as important as the soil in which you will place those plants. Select plants that are resistant to disease and will be much easier to maintain and give you the look you want. Food for thought is a use

plants that are native to your area.

Your experience will tell you what the problem plants are. Get your plants from reputable sources and ask those people for suggestions. They should be happy to help you because of the return sales. Your local cooperative extension service should provide you with much-needed information. Some catalogs

will list disease resistant plants.

Over time, experience will tell you which plant diseases are the most troublesome in your region. The local nursery and cooperative extension service are also good sources of information on local diseases and disease resistant plants. Nursery and seed catalogs often list disease resistance in plant descriptions.

There are resistant varieties that exist for diseases such as apple scab, armillaria root rot, bean mosaic virus, cranberry mummyberry, cherry viruses, juniper tips, and twig blight. , lilac bacterial blight, powdery mildew, pea mosaic virus, potato scab, black spot, rust, tomato fusarium and root-knot nematode, fire blight, verticillium wilt and other diseases.

What Does Incorrect Exposure Do To Your Plants? Take a look at the conditions you have in your garden and choose your plants accordingly. Plants are usually clearly marked if they prefer sun, partial shade, or full shade.

Shade plants that grow in the sun turn yellowish and grow poorly. They will get a sunburn that will develop dead spots on their leaves. Avoid exposure to the south or west.

Sun worshipers are often stunted and thin when grown in the shade. If they do grow, they are usually weak in appearance and have few leaves. Reduced flowering in many plants can result from shade placement.

Use water conserving landscaping whenever you can. Most gardeners in drought climates have realized the importance of conserving water, but in areas where water is plentiful, however, garden debris is all too common. We take our water supply for granted by wasting more than we need, and in many areas, more groundwater is pumped into the ground than nature can replace through precipitation and runoff.

Why not use drought tolerant plants? These plants grow well in low water once they are established.

Mulch every plant you have.

Some grass species need less water than others, but grass generally needs a large amount of water to stay green and grow. If you replace your lawn with drought-tolerant blankets or flowers, you will save a great deal of water and even money. If you can click

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Your favorite plants probably require a lot of water. Grouping and crushing these plants allows you to water them together, thus reducing water waste.

fruit pollination

What about fruit pollination requirements? Many beginning gardeners get confused when their fruit trees don't bear fruit. It could be a pollination problem.

Certain types of trees produce larger and more abundant fruits with cross pollination between different cultivars. The others, cross pollination is mandatory to obtain any fruit.

Know the pollination requirements of a fruit before planting it. If your space is limited, choose a fruit that is self-pollinated, such as European-type plums or almost any of the peach varieties.

Pollination won't happen without insects, butterflies, or hummingbirds. When you or a neighbor use chemical pesticides routinely, bees and other pollinating insects can be reduced and fruit production is affected. Go organic.