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I’m growing indoors under four 600-watt lights. What’s your opinion about misting plants with water to emulate rain? Is this a good or bad idea? How often should I mist, and during which growing ...

Jakob Barry explains the concept of foliar feeding, a great way to revive any plants that aren't looking their best..... Feeding the garden or any plants around the house for that matter is a pretty ...

FOLIAR feeding of crops is the process of spraying nutrients on pant parts including leaves and stem, where they get readily absorbed and reach the site of activity. Foliar feeding has resulted in ...

While established perennials -- though slow in starting -- are doing well this year, enjoying all this wet weather, newly planted plants are suffering incredible stress. Transplant shock is always a ...

Dairy farmer Robin Nicolson has halved nitrogen use on grazing leys while maintaining annual growth at 12t/ha dry matter by foliar feeding instead of using conventional, prilled fertiliser. Foliar ...

A team from the Department of Agronomy at the UCO has demonstrated, through field tests carried out during 8 agricultural seasons, that foliar feeding with fertilizer increases the concentration of ...

"GARDEN IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES, Liz Dobbs and Sarah Wood. Time-Life Books, $29.95. "As a quick emergency measure to rescue a starving plant, spray a foliar feed onto plant foliage. Foliar feeding is ...

As producers battle consistently anemic commodity prices, any avenue to push yields is all the more alluring. While macronutrients and tissue testing are gospel in many parts of agriculture, Nathan ...

FOLIAR feeding of crops is the process of spraying nutrients on pant parts including leaves and stem, where they get readily absorbed and reach the site of activity. Foliar feeding has resulted in ...

JERRY COLEBY-WILLIAMS: You often hear us on Gardening Australia encouraging you to group plants together so they have similar soils and similar conditions. Makes gardening much easier. But on my ...