Attracting Birds to your Garden

Attracting Birds to your Garden

Among the fondest and most memorable moments of my childhood are the discoveries of birds nesting in the garden.
As people learn to enjoy the beauty of birdlife around their home, they may wish to improve the "habitat" so that more birds will visit their property. You can attract birds by placing bird feeders, nest boxes, and bird baths in your yard, and by planting a variety of trees, shrubs, and flowers. These can provide good nesting sites, winter shelter, places to hide from predators, and natural food supplies that are available year-round.

Another attraction of Birds in your garden is to take a 12 feet pole, tie Yellow and Orange Ribbon dia 1.5 inches 18 inches length, keeping it 12 inches apart
Place the in an open space so that it is easily available to be in view of birds
Keep it in a place where it is Windy

Bird Seeds for a start, place a bird seed mixture available in the market

A good landscaping plan will contribute to a beautiful, natural setting around your home that is pleasing to people as well as birds.

Natural Insect Control
Birds eat a variety of insects.

Happy Birding




 

How to Save Water in Gardening

Plants use 10-15 % of water, the rest goes as seepage. Keeping in view of shortage of Water.

Here is what I do.

Take a pet Bottle, make a small hole in the Cap, and a larger hole in the Bottom, fill with Water,
and press the Head in soil at 45 degree angle, it will start drip action, keeping the soil moist round the clock. It will take a week or more to consume.  This can be done in Flower Pots ad in Flower Beds. In flower beds keep a distance of a yard apart.

I had done this when I left for a week for upcountry. My plants were all fresh on my return

Common name: Red Cassia, Ceylon Senna, 

Botanical name: Cassia roxburghii      Family: Caesalpiniaceae (Gulmohar family)

Red cassia is a graceful tree with spreading, drooping branches appearing to be overweighted by its wealth of clustering orange-red blossoms. The tree has alternate pinnate leaves in pairs with colored margins which further enhance the appearance. The leaves are about 1 ft long and each has 15-20 pairs of oblong 2 in leaflets. Red cassia produces clusters of pink, rose or orange flowers in axillary and terminal, often branched, racemes. Sepal cup is hairy, with sepals ovate, 4-7 mm long. Petals are 1-1.5 cm long, oblong-obovate, hairy externally. Stamens are 10, 4 long, 3 medium sized and 3 small, not swollen in the middle. The fruit is a typical legume: it is cylindrical and indehiscent (does not split open by itself), 8-12 in long, less than 1 in in diameter, and bears many seeds separated by papery partitions.

Scientific name: Trichosanthes dioica   Urdu Parval
Trichosanthes dioica is also known as the pointed gourd, parwal/parval, or potol "Paror" in Maithili and "Parol" in Magahi. Colloquially, in India, it is often called green potato.

Cassia Red

Double Head

How to Save Water in Gardening

How to save Water in Gardening                        

Plants use 10-15 % of water, the rest goes as seepage. Keeping in view of shortage of Water.

Here is what I do.

Take a pet Bottle, make a small hole in the Cap, and a larger hole in the Bottom, fill with Water,
and press the Head in soil at 45 degree angle, it will start drip action, keeping the soil moist round the clock. It will take a week or more to consume. This can be done in Flower Pots ad in Flower Beds. In flower beds keep a distance of a yard apart.

I had done this when I left for a week for upcountry. My plants were all fresh on my return

Organic Spray

RED ONION use for :- carrots, rabbits, ice rata, weevils, Helps Roses, Scales, aphids, thrips and mites.

Juice of the whole plant, Bacterial rots,cabbage, butterfly trap. a general insect repellent

MENTHA Juice of the whole plant, General pests control
Mice, Rats, Ants, Aphids, Flea Beetles mosqitoes, gnats,
Cabbage white Butterfly, Caterpillars

NASTURTIUM  Juice fwhole,plant,white aphids,Nwmatodes,Mealy bugs

BASIL All pests, diseases of tomatoes, Bud worms, russet
mites,Mosquitoes,Tomatoe mite, red legged earth mites

CASTOR OIL PLANT Pests vine nite, rust mite, grape wine moth, hawk moth, scales, cucurbitceae, worms

SAGE Juice of the whole plant, General insect repellent
especially for caterpillars, Bud worm, army worm, Sawflies, Web worm, cut worm, Poatato moth, cluster caterpillars, Spitfire, Aphids

ELDER juice of the plant icluding flowers, Diseases and pests of beans,blossom thrips,bean fly, pod borers,angularleaf spot,leaf roll, rust


These are some juices to be sparyed in diluted form, some may require spray 3/4 times to be effective, Be patient it takes time to produce result.

I hope this will serve your purpose.

B Shah