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Taking care of ginger plants Water your ginger well in the early stages of planting. Continue to water or spray your plant’s soil often to keep the soil moist but not soggy. And be patient. Ginger can take several weeks to sprout. Ginger is a good plant to enjoy indoors in colder climates. While it will enjoy the outdoors during warm months, any frost will kill a ginger plant. Choose a location with indirect light for your ginger. After about eight months, your ginger plant will be mature. At that point, you can separate the rhizomes by pulling off a...

Mango Health Benefits Mango is a sweet stoned tropical fruit that has been eaten for thousands of years. Mango trees can grow up to 40m tall and some still produce fruit at the age of 300. Mangos are used in a lot of cuisine whether it be for a chutney, blended into a smoothie or eaten as a fruit. Mangos come from south Asia but are eaten all over the globe, India is the place where most mangos are grown, in 2013 the number of mangos produced globally was around 43 million tonnes, India being responsible for 18 million tonnes...

Single Planting Fruit & Veg! Does having fresh fruit and vegetables available from the garden sound great? Is having to replant year after year off-putting? Here at Crocodile Trading, we have the solution… Certain plants don’t need replanting and will grow year after year, season after season. We have made a list of 5 different fruits and vegetables for people who only want to plant once. • Raspberries Raspberry bushes come in a large variety of colour: red, black, purple and even gold. Raspberries are low maintenance which means they don’t require much of your time which makes them perfect...

Weeds in a polytunnel Weeds are probably every gardener’s worst nightmare… they can easy overgrow the main crop starving it from its nutrients in the soil. Not only this but will also battle the plant for light meaning that it probably won’t stand a chance at surviving. Weeds needs to be dealt with as soon as possible to prevent them from ruining other plants… plus they will take over in no time at all. Using polytunnels lowers the risks of weeds as it gives plants a protective layer from outside, meaning its harder for seeds to spread. This doesn’t mean...

Build a bug hotel An insect hotel or bug house is something manmade, it encourages insects of all kinds to nest and hibernate over the winter periods. You can build different types of bug hotels to attract various insects. Many insect hotels are used as nest sites by insects including solitary bees and solitary wasps. These insects drag prey to the nest where an egg is deposited. Other insects hotels are specifically designed to allow the insects to hibernate, notable examples include ladybirds and butterflies. Today… I am going to explain how to build one designed especially for butterflies. 75%...

Garlic spray keeps the pests away! There are many insects in the garden that aren’t pests, these insects fight away the pests almost like little tiny guards for plants. When pesticides are used, they not only wipe out pests but also the beneficial insects. Once all the good insects are gone it can throw the garden off balance, meaning it has no natural defence systems. The obvious answer is not to resort to harmful toxins, as there is a much simpler and natural way of dealing with these pests, plus the friendly insects aren’t harmed in the crossfire. Being exposed...