Eco-Friendly Products Keep Fountains and Ponds Clean

Filed Under (Blackout Window Blinds, Blinds Shades, Blinds Window Coverings, Cheap Mini Blinds, Home Improvements) by Trey Casselman on 22-02-2010

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The gentle sounds of a decorative fountain add a restful, calming ambiance to any backyard. Keeping your fountain clean and fresh can be just as restful and calming.

You don’t have to spend hours each week scrubbing and cleaning your fountain, there are products that will keep that fountain clean and are natural and safe for your children, pets and other animals.

Bioverse offers eco-friendly products that are 100 percent safe and natural and prevent the stains, mineral deposits and organic build up that can make your fountain an eyesore, rather than the centerpiece of your yard.

Before using Bioverse’s Healthy Ponds Fountain Water Cleaner, it is recommended that you empty your fountain and give it a thorough cleaning. Then simply fill it up with fresh water and place the cleaning packet into your fountain.

Your work is now complete. The packet will last for 30 days and after that, all you have to do is take out the old packet and replace it with a new one. It is as simple as that to maintain your fountain.

Best of all, Bioverse’s products are all natural and veterinarian-approved for all birds, fish and wildlife. So it is a safe and easy way to maintain your fountain. Bioverse also has safe and natural products for fish tanks and koi ponds.

For larger ponds, Bioverse also provides the all-natural AquaSpherePRO which provides pond owners with a simple monthly treatment. Like its other products, you simply drop the sphere into your pond once every 30 days and you are done. You cannot over-treat your water.

Some pond problems may require a little diagnosing for a proper initial treatment. Bioverse makes this simple with its Pond Treatment Wizard, available on its website. To determine the proper treatment, simply follow the pictures and Bioverse will recommend and initial treatment and your monthly maintenance.

Trey Casselman likes gardening and writing. For more information about how to clean ponds or to find products such as fountain cleaner, check out the Bioverse site today.

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Plant Protection And Soil Treatment Methods

Filed Under (Home Improvements) by Gary Antosh on 14-02-2010

Tagged Under : garden, gardening, home improvement, Home Improvements, pest, pest control

Most of us have been discouraged at one time or another because a favorite house plant died or did not look its best. Perhaps the use of unsterilized soil was to blame.

Proper soil treatment, either by heat or chemicals, can destroy all kinds of soil-borne pests: fungi, nematodes, bacteria, insects and weed seeds.

Many common ailments of house plants can be traced to using soil or pots contaminated with pests which rot, chew and suck away the roots, crown or bulb. This prevents water and nutrients from reaching the leaves and flowers. Such plants may appear unhealthy or may wilt, wither away and die. The same soil-borne pests may rot seeds or cuttings, or cause young seedlings to suddenly wilt and topple over (called damping-off).

Soil treatment can be regarded as cheap insurance that your house plants have a fair chance to grow, look their best, and bloom.

The easiest and most effective way to disinfect your soil and pots is by heating. Heat treatment at the right temperature and for the correct length of time destroys all five major kinds of pests, and leaves no long-lasting toxic residues in the soil, as some chemical treatments occasionally do. But be careful to avoid overheating, particularly with steam or dry heat. Otherwise the physical structure of the soil may be broken down and excess soluble salts may be released, resulting in harmful side effects.

Heat Sterilization

To heat your soil properly, follow these steps:

1. Prepare the soil as for planting. Add the sand, peat moss or other materials you wish in the final potting mixture. The soil should be loose, free of coarse debris and lumps, and just moist enough for planting. Don’t have it so wet that it sticks together when squeezed in your hand.

To be sure (the first time) you have done a thorough job of sterilizing, scatter in a handful of oat or ryegrass seed while mixing the soil. If seedlings pop up after sterilization, while the soil is airing, you know that you slipped up somewhere. Incompletely sterilized soil is frequently more hazardous to use than non-sterilized soil. Harmful microorganisms have less competition and hence grow quickly throughout the soil and attack plants.

2. Spread the soil from one to three inches deep in a cooking pan or wooden flat and bake in a 200 degree oven for one hour. Clay pots, wooden containers and pot labels can be placed on top. They should be sterilized, too. Plastic pots are easily sterilized by washing in hot, soapy water. The soil can also be put directly in the pots and baked in the oven as above.

A home canning-type pressure cooker can also be used or the soil can be put on a rack above boiling water in a large, covered wash boiler or kettle. If a pressure cooker is used set the valve at ten pounds pressure. For three-inch pots of soil heat for ten minutes; four-inch. 15 minutes; six-inch, 30 minutes. If using the boiling water method without steam pressure double the time intervals.

3. After heat sterilization stir the soil’ thoroughly and water it for several days before planting. Be careful not to recontaminate the soil with microscopic pests by avoiding dirty surfaces or utensils and diseased plant material.

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