Our Environment

It takes one year to compost if you leave the pile alone, a few months if you aerate the pile weekly or several weeks if you turn the pile every two or three days.

HOW DO I COMPOST? There are two basic styles of composting: 1) Single Batch where materials are added all at once to form a pile. This method provides the most efficient, quickest results, and 

Composting is a controlled decomposition process that converts organic materials such as leaves, kitchen scraps and garden waste into a valuable product called compost , or manure, as it is more better known locally. When compost is mixed with soil in gardens, lawns and houseplants, it improves soil quality and results in healthier plants.

A SUBSTRATE is the material in which the root system of the plant will develop. It can be solid, in which case it serves to anchor the plant; or liquid, in which case it maintains an appropriate balance of air and the nutrient solution.

What is hydroponics? The word “Hydroponic” is derived from the Greek words – “Hydro” which means water and “Ponos” which means labour. In translation therefore, the term hydroponic means “water work.” True hydroponics is growing plants in water without any type of media and initially this concept involved growing plants directly in water.

Pest management involves three steps-firstly Pest Identification, secondly Monitoring and then Management.

QUOTE: “The butterfly is a flying flower,The flower a tethered butterfly” (Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun)

A hedge is a fence or boundary formed by closely growing bushes or shrubs.

Inhabitants of big cities in the throes of urban development are faced with the urgent need to reconcile with nature by replacing greenery in open spaces between edifices, thereby recomposing their landscape, according to Fitz H. Ogle, former Curator/Manager of the Botanical Gardens in Georgetown.

“It is becoming clearer that the most effective way to ensure that persons and countries consider their impact on the environment and consequently proceed along a sustainable path is to have all citizens aware of their interaction with the environment,” Richard B. Olver former Resident Representative, United Nations Development Project (UNDP) Guyana.