Our Environment

PLANTING AND TRANSPLANTING Before planting seeds,  prepare or till the soil using a variety of methods. Some gardeners prefer to turn over the soil with a spade, while others loosen it with a garden fork.

HEALTHY soil is indispensable to a healthy garden. Plants derive water, oxygen for their roots, and essential nutrients from the soil.

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

CONTRARY to popular belief in some quarters, a vegetable and fruit garden is no more trouble to cultivate than a flower garden. And some vegetables and fruit plants produce flowers, so you can have it both ways.

ATTRACTING hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden can bring a sense of delight.Said to be nature’s perfect helicopters, hummingbirds, often heard by their hum before they are seen, are attracted to tubular-shaped flowers.

EVERYONE likes a bright, colourful garden. So, instead of a hodge-podge, disorderly combination of plants and flowers, one can use combinations of plants with various flower colours in order to create the look one wants in a garden.

DESIGNING a garden landscape is an art; and it’s not hard to master it. You don’t have to have a big lawn, or the skills of a master gardener, or expensive tools, or abundance of plants. You just have to select the right type of plants for the right location and climate.

ENVIRONMENTAL issues are prevalent in our world today, and we should make it our business to know about them, but it is equally important to be aware of environmental issues in our most immediate environment: Our home.

MIXED farming is one in which crop production is combined with the rearing of livestock.The concept of a mixed farm or mixed farming can drive agro-tourism in rural areas of Guyana.