Rainbow Cotton

Most people are seen using their backyard landscapes as a source of edible crops. One can plant the desired food or cash crops in the Backyard Landscapes and can generate the income source. Without regarding the place where one lives, one grows the crops in the Backyard Landscapes. It has as a bonus feature for every family owning a Backyard Landscape by serving with the edible crops. For example, a Blueberry plant that serves as both for aesthetic view with its flower and the tasty blueberry fruit. Strawberries can also serve in making the landscape quite beautiful. People are seen planting the pyramidal trees that can make the backyard more beautiful. Grapes can be the remarkable backyard landscapes plant. With a proper care the Grape plantation can be very vital for income source. Tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages are the most grown crops in the Backyard Landscapes. These crops are the valuable in terms of food or cash. People are also seen planting tobacco, jutes etc. As the main cash crops.

The compost is really just a way of supporting the plant and a readily available cheap carrier for the fertilizer. By growing the plants in a container filled with water to which has been added all the chemicals a plant requires, the need for soil, feeding, potting and watering is done away with. For my first attempt at hydroponics I used an old fashioned goldfish bowl and some cuttings of the green and white striped Tradescantia.

After spacing the cuttings out across the container I used aquarium gravel to hold them in place, just about to halfway up the sides. I then filled the bowl with water in which a packet of proprietory fertilizer had been dissolved . At regular intervals I stripped the system down thoroughly, rinsed the gravel, scrubbed out the bowl, replaced plants and gravel plus a fresh supply of nutrient solution. I developed a more luxurious system putting the roots of the plant inside a perforated funnel which had once done duty inside a tea urn. I chose a Chlorophytum for the experiment simply because they are easy to grow and there was a good stock to choose from. After filling the cylinder with pea gravel to anchor the Spider Plants (Chlorophytum) roots I plunged it into a bowl half filled with the water/fertilizer mixture . Having the plant in a separate pot made routine maintenance much easier. All I did was lift it out, rinse, clean and refill the bowl before starting the process all over again.

Modern techniques have advanced way beyond my primitive home-made hydroculture bowl. Water level indicators, filler tubes, special granules manufactured for use in hydroponics to just the right size for efficient capillary action . One mistake the newcomer to soil-less gardening makes is to assume that a plant can be transferred direct from loam or peat based compost to a water fertilizer solution.

Now, we don’t have too much of a yard going on back behind our house, but we make do with what we’ve got. I’ve actually got some extra space this year now that the bikes are down in the basement, and I believe that I want to look into the world of small greenhouses to fill up that void in the yard. I’ve always wanted to plant more, and I’ve got the space in the front of the house and all around the house, but the problem is that the only place on my property that gets direct sunlight is the backyard. Thus, I thought that it might be an effective idea to get a greenhouse and just plant back there temporarily. I would work and nurture the plants until they were beautiful and strong, and then I would take them and put them in pots all around the house.