FIGHTING PLANT ENEMIES

The device and implements used for fighting plant enemies are of two sorts :

1. Those use to afford mechanical protection to the plants;
2. Those used to apply insecticides and fungicides.

Of the first the most useful is the covered frame. It consists usually of a wooden box, some eighteen inches to two feet square and about eight high, covered with glass, protecting cloth, mosquito netting or mosquito wire. The first two covering have, of course, the additional advantage of retaining heat and protecting from cold, making it possible by their use to plant earlier that is otherwise safe. They are used extensively in getting an extra early and safe start with cucumbers, melons and the other vine vegetables (news).

Simpler devices for protecting newly set plants, such as tomatoes or cabbage, from the cut worm are stiff, tin, cardboard or tar paper collars, wich are made several inches high and large enough to be put around the stem and penetrate an inch or so into the soil.

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LET’S TAKE A FAMILY VACATION

School holiday is coming soon. It is a wonderful time for families to take a break from the monotony of life and plan trips or getaways. Have you and the family made plans for this coming vacation? there are plenty of interesting things to do strengthen family relationship during the long holiday (news).

Work and other obligations can sometimes limit our time with our family. That is why school holiday is the perfect time to plan a nice family vacation with your spouse and kids, spend quality time together and do things that may build up long lost communication and relationship due to our busy daily schedule and chores.

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TREES HELP SAVE OUR PLANET

For more than 4 billion years, the greenhouse effect has kept our planet’s temperature at a friendly level. Gases found in the atmosphere act to trap heat and keep our planet insulated, able to sustain itself. Problems only began to arise when scientists noticed that certain practises and human activities contribute to the modification af this process.

Over the past fifty years, production of gases that are responsible for this entrapment has risen sharply. The problem is that these gases have nowhere else to go and continues to build up over the years. by building up, they cuase the atmosphere to become more efficient in trapping heat, causing climates to turn warmer leading to global warming.

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