How to Protect: There isn’t much you can do to prevent or repair foliage discoloration, but you can attempt to block out the harsh winds with burlap or pine boughs. Roots Frost Heaving The soil repeatedly freezing and thawing in cold weather causes soil to expand and contract, damaging ...
It is hard for astronauts to get used to this light-dark cycle when they sleep. Now they have individual seeping pods (分离舱) that help shut out some of the light. Sill, studies have found that most astronauts only sleep about six hours each night, even though they should have eight ...
Since the bark covers the tree’scambium—cellular tissue vital to a tree’s health—climbing a sycamore can potentially damage the cambium. Try not to disturb the bark for a healthy climbing tree. 5. Eastern White Pine As one of North America’s largestconifer trees, the Eastern white pin...
The ground needs to be cold and hard. The mulch will help the soil cool down slowly, preparing plants for winter. It will also save you time in the spring. Shredded mulch, straw, pine needles, or shredded leaves are all good winter mulch. Apply 3 to 4 inches. It’s important to app...
If you live in the north-east, you might have a white pine tree. These lovely native trees are usually easy to grow, but there is one serious disease that can attack them.This fungus attacks side branches, which die – creating ‘flags’ – and then spreads along the branch until it ...
Montenegro — literally, ‘black mountain’ — is in fact a place of thick green forests, ice-blue lakes and white-capped peaks. A journey through the Balkan beauty reveals the wealth of stories and sights packed into one of Europe’s smallest countries.
Be it fruit, nuts, or wood; many tree products are incredibly valuable with hungry markets looking to buy. If you have the capital to get started, the will to plan ahead, and the patience to wait for trees to mature, you can have great success growing trees for profit. ...
they are fraught with trouble. Weeping willows are softwood trees that break under stress from high winds. Additionally, the tree’s roots will burrow into water and sewer lines and disrupt them. Care must be taken to remove a weeping willow. The tree’s pendulous growth can get in the way...
If you’ve ever touched a pine tree, you know how sticky and difficult pine sap is to remove. The sticky substance leaks out of many different kinds of pine trees and seems to stick to everything. Since vinyl is a tough material, it is simpler to get the pine sap off of it without...
Their root systems hold the sand in place and their shoots slow the winds, thereby allowing sand to be deposited. Along the dunes, you will find many crabs, particularly ghost crabs. Again, you will find birds (gulls, terns) that feed on the animals that inhabit the dunes. Scrub tree ...