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Cody Lundin, the survival master known as "Abodude" has created his own self sufficient home in Arizona.
Cody is known for his aboriginal lifestyle that includes walking without shoes for the past 20 years,creating fire with a hand drill (which is quite a bit more difficult than a bow-d |
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When Tobacco Mosaic Virus infects a tobacco plant, the virus enters mechanically (For example through a ruptured plant cell wall) and replicates. After its multiplication, it enters the neighboring cells through plasmodesmata. For its smooth entry, Tobacco Mosaic Virus produces a 30,000 dalton prote |
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Tubers, rhizomes, corms, and bulbs actually all serve the same purpose, just differently. They are each a storage unit for nutrients that give the plant the energy it needs to grow, bloom, and complete its lifecycle. The energy is created and stored by the photosynthesis of the leaves. It's importan |
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There are many plants that we've grown accustomed to pulling out of our gardens because they are too strong and take out too many nutrients. Many of these plants are actually edible and highly nutritious. You probably have many of these growing in your yard.
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Perennial Climbing Vines
Balloon Vine (Cardiospermum halicacabum) - Also called love-in-a-puff; full sun; average garden soil; up to 10 feet; tendrils; tiny white flowers followed by balloon-like seedpods; seeds have a white, heart-shaped mark; three-part leaves (Perennial)
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Powdery mildew is a fungal disease that affects a wide range of plants. Powdery mildew diseases are caused by many different species of fungi in the order Erysiphales. It is one of the easier diseases to spot, as its symptoms are quite distinctive. Infected plants display white powder-like spots on |
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Some plants needs an extra support to grow tall. Peas and Beans are an example of these kind of plants. Trellis structures can be as simple as a wooden stakes or as intricate as interwoven lattice. Plants are trained on a trellis to conserve space, increase light penetration into the plant, display |
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Leaves are the above ground organ specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are made to catch light and have openings to allow water and air to come and go. The outer surface of the leaf has a waxy coating called a cuticle, which protects the leaf. Veins carry water and nutrients within the leaf.
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Hydrangea macrophylla Plant infected with Cercospora Leaf Spot.
Cercospora Leaf Spot is a common disease in landscaping planting of Hydrangea. It is usually seen in low-maintenance landscaping.
It will unlikely kill the plant but will show many spots and leafs will shed prematu |
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Reproduction in snails is quite different than in mammals.
The land snail is a hermaphrodite, it has both reproductive organs. It can't create babies by itself however, it needs a partner.
The snails 'hook up' on the right sides of their heads, this can last for up to 12 hours. Both inje |
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-lives on citrus plants or on woody part of vine in my case
-looks like barnacles (peach or light orange colored)
-5mm to 8mm long
-ooses bright orange liquid when removed from plant (that's the egg sac that bursts)
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Paracelsus, the father of toxicology, once wrote: "Everything is poison, there is poison in everything. Only the dose makes a thing not a poison."
Plants have different types of toxins; each acts differently, with diverse symptoms, and treatments. Here is a small look into those tox |
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It may be a product of over watering. I can produce closeups if necessary. Please help me save my baby! |
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Annual Climbing Vines
Cardinal Vine, Climber (Ipomoea sloteri) - Full sun; porous, fertile to sandy soil; up to 10 feet; small, bright red flowers attract hummingbirds; fern-like leaves Another fast-growing climber, cardinal vine produces colorful blooms in shades of red, pink, or white. It also |
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Maybe Plum leaf blister (Polystigma rubrum) - Red leaf spots |
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The Baneful herbs are those that are poisonous. Any herbs can be baneful herbs if used incorrectly. But the term was applied in medieval times to represent a certain group of herbs. Some of which were used in the Flying Ointments (flying referred to Astral Projection not broom riding). These are ver |
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These creatures looked like grasshoppers or cicadas. If you know what they are leave a message below.
Here are some other Brazilian Insects and Spiders:
[[]]http://healthyhomegardening.com/Creature.php?pid=167[[]]
[[]]http://healthyhomegardening.com/Creature.php?pid=169[[]]
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If your putting new grass sods yourself you might want to plan ahead and consider following some steps:
1. Kill all existing lawn/weed using Roundup to neutralize the soil
2. Use yard roller to smooth-out the soil
3. Use rotor tiller and till the ground
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Honey fungus or Armillaria is a genus of parasitic fungi that live on trees and woody shrubs. It includes about 10 species formerly lumped together as A. mellea.
Armillaria is long lived and form some of the largest living organisms in the world. The largest single organism (of the species A |
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Strange, Tiny, Bowl-Like Fungus Pores.
Often found in sawdust, woodchips, manure, or well enriched soil. Cup is striated. They are saprophytes (decomposers of organic material).
The seeds are small capsules known as peridioles which contain the spores.
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Alternaria solani is a fungal pathogen, producing a disease in tomato and potato plants called early blight.
It produces small, darkened lesions on the plants, that spread into growing black spots of dead tissue, often killing most of the plant in the long run. Seeds infected with the diseas |
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Learn from Green Deane about Amaranth, a long-cultivated but also wild food, vegetable and grain.
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Vegetable Amaranth 1-2 feet high
Grain Amaranth - much taller
Leaves dark on top, silvery on bottom. Leaves alternate up the stem. Cou |
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As I learn about Beekeeping, I'll post it here.
Link to a page on harvesting honey:
[[]]http://healthyhomegardening.com/Blog.php?pid=67[[]] |
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Disease fungi (Fusarium oxysporum) enter through the roots and interfere with the water conducting vessels of the plant. As the infection spreads up into the stems and leaves it restricts water flow, causing the foliage to wilt and turn yellow. Symptoms often appear later in the growing season and a |
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Snails are mature when a lip forms at the opening of their shell. Before they mature, their shells are more easily broken, making them undesirable. For H. aspersa, commercial weight is 8 grams or larger.
The nutrient composition of raw snails (per 100 grams of edible portion), according to i |
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Fireblight is a destructive, highly infectious and widespread disease caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora.The disease affects plants in the Rosaceae family: Malus (apple and crabapple), Cotoneaster (cotoneaster), Prunus (flowering almond, plum and cherry), Chaenomeles (flowering quince), Crata |
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Video of a little jumping spider doing what he does best, jumping. |
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Cedar Apple Rust - Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae |
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Successful snail culture requires the correct equipment and supplies, including: snail pens or enclosures; devices for measuring humidity (hygrometer), temperature (thermometer), soil moisture, and light (in foot candles); a weigh |
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Plants listed here are are not recreational drugs (except for Cannabis). These plants have ancient historical, cultural and religious uses. Our ancestors used these plants medicinally. Almost all of these plants can be poisonous if taken incorrectly.
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Orchidaceae, commonly referred to as the Orchid family. It is currently believed to be the second largest family of flowering plants in the world with over 25,000 species of orchids and more than 100,000 hybrids.
The number of orchid types equals more than twice the number of bird species, an |
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Family names are capitalized and end in “aceae” except for eight families that were grandfathered in with older names. For those eight families, there are two accepted, correct names! You can use either one.
Palm family - Palmae or Arecaceae
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Beans & legumes have nodules on their rootlets that will pump nitrogen from the environment into your soil -- making a more nitrogen-rich soil.
Would be great to plant these either near heavy nitrogen feeders like: tomatos, corn & cruciferous vegetables. Or to rotate your crops and pl |
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Video: Making Bent Wood Trellis
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Whenever I'm designing elements for my garden, I always keep in mind, that the more natural they are the better they seem to fit in and that's exactly what I did when I created this rustic trellis. But others have taken thi |
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Mandevilla (Mandevilla splendens) - Part shade, evenly moist soil; up to 10 feet; twines; clusters of pink, trumpet-shaped flowers; glossy leaves; overwinter inside by cutting back stems and watering only enough to prevent drying out. A tropical vine with delicate flowers are held in upright cluster |
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Many-Headed Slime
This is not a fungus, it's an ameoba, which is in it's own Kingdom now (Amoebozoa).
The Amoebozoa are a major group of amoeboid protozoa, including the majority that move by means of internal cytoplasmic flow. Their pseudopodia are characteristically blunt and finger-like, ca |
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The disease is caused by the fungus Exobasidium camelliae.
The severity of the disease varies according to the weather conditions when leaf expansion begins in the spring. Cool, moist weather favors disease development. Frequently overhead sprinkler irrigation provides the moisture necessary |
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Helix aspersa, the common western garden snail, is a close relative of the commercial French food snail, Helix pomatia.
The practice of rearing snails for food is known as heliciculture.
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To Eat the Garden Snail:
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Ganoderma applanatum
AKA:Artist's Bracket, Artist's Conk, or Flacher Lackporling; syn. Boletus applanatus, Fomes applanatus, Fomes vegetus, Ganoderme aplani, Ganoderma lipsiense, Polyporus applanatus, and Polyporus vegetus
Bracket fungus with a worldwide distribution.
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Coneflowers may get Pseudomanas or Xanthomonas leaf spot. Powdery mildew will also occur under the right weather conditions. Botrytis may also occur. May get brown dead areas as well as distorted leaves. These plants now get aster yellows.
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* Angular Leaf Spot of Cucumber
* Anthracnose on Snap Beans
* Bacterial Spot of Pepper
* Blossom End Rot of Tomato
* Buckeye Rot of Tomato
* Clubroot of Crucifers
* Corn Smut
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Mycena cyanorrhiza stains blue and contains the hallucinogen psilocybin
Mycena pura contains hallucinogen muscarine.
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Here are a few plants and animals found near Delta, Utah. This area is the most remote area in the United States. Also one of the most desolate. These creatures are highly adapted to extreme drought, heat, and even freezing temperatures.
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Plant Description:
• The Orchid is bilaterally symmetric (zygomorphic).
• Many resupinate.
• One petal (labellum) is always highly modified.
• Stamens and carpels are fused.
• Seeds are extremely small.
• Like most monocots, orchids have big grass-like lea |
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2 different types of mushrooms cluster together on a tree trunk:
Dark yellow mushroom with dark red edges around it + False Turkey Tail |
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AKA cinder conk
The sterile conk is irregularly formed and has the appearance of burnt charcoal. The fertile fruitbody can be found very rarely as a resupinate (crustose) fungus on or near the clinker, usually appearing after the host tree is completely dead.
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This is a delicious edible mushroom.
Fry it up in thin slices with some butter, salt and garlic, it tastes like meat.
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Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly Amanita, is a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Native throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Amanita muscaria has been unintentionally introduced to many count |
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Large, white, round, styrofoam like mushroom. When the mushroom begins to crack is when it is edible. Texture when fried is like a marshmallow. |
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Corn smut is a disease of maize caused by the pathogenic plant fungus Ustilago maydis.
In Mexico corn smut is called huitlacoche, sometimes spelled cuitlacoche), a Nahuatl word reportedly meaning raven's excrement. It is considered a delicacy, even being preserved and sold for a highe |
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My yellow straight neck squash plant has been healthy and producing. Today when I examined my garden this plant was wilted and curled with these huge ugly fungus growths all over the base of the plant. I do not know what this is or where it came from, I planted this garden 8 weeks ago and have had n |
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Orange Chicken of the Woods Mushroom with white pigments
Laetiporus is a genus of edible mushrooms found throughout much of the world. Some species are commonly known as sulphur shelf, chicken of the woods, the chicken mushroom, or the chicken fungus because many think they taste like chicke |
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Our space program has led the way to a fascinating and important discovery about the role of houseplants indoors. NASA has been researching methods of cleansing the atmosphere in future space stations to keep them fit for human habitation over extended periods of time. They've found that many common |
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In late spring, we plant the corn and beans and squash. They're not just plants- we call them the three sisters. We plant them together, three kinds of seeds in one hole. They want to be together with each other, just as we Indians want to be together with each other. So long as the three sisters ar |
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Leaf miner is a term used to describe the larvae of many different species of insect which live in and eat the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths (Lepidoptera), sawflies (Symphyta) and flies (Diptera), though some beetles and wasps also exhibit this behavior. |
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its orange in color and is round in shape, came up after some heavy rains, rubbery to the touch and when the pod/fungus is popped it has thick orange liquid inside,. |
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Here are a few common plants found in Northern Arizona, many of these should be found in Southern Utah as well.
Prickly Pear Cactus Rose
Cactaceae Opuntia engelmannii
[[]]http://healthyhomegardening.com/Plant.php?pid=2060[[]]
Blackberry
Rosacea Rubus fruticosus
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On tomato and eggplant, blossom-end rot usually begins as a small water-soaked area at the blossom end of the fruit (Figure 1). This may appear while the fruit is green or during ripening. As the lesion develops, it enlarges, becomes sunken and turns black and leathery. In severe cases, it may compl |
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Plant disease of warm humid areas, caused by a fungus (usually Colletotrichum or Gloeosporium). It infects various plants, from trees to grasses. Symptoms include sunken spots of various colours in leaves, stems, fruits, or flowers, often leading to wilting and dying of tissues. Dogwood anthracnose, |
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No matter what type of plant you grow you eventually are going to have problems. You will sooner or later have orchid problems if you grow orchids also.
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* Amaranth (use leaf amaranth like spinach)
* Arugula (rocket)
* Asian Greens
* Beans (try snake beans and winged beans in the tropics)
* Bell Peppers
* Cabbage
* Capsicum (that's the Australian name for peppers)
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A garden is a buggy place. Garden plants attract insect pests by the dozens, from aphids to slugs. But before you reach for an insecticide, take another look at the insects in your planting beds. While the pests are devouring your squash and tomatoes, another wave of insects is coming to the rescue. |
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White Puffball Mushroom |
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I potted Geranium plant was given to me from a friend who could no longer have it when he moved. At first I was not too impressed, but over time the plant "grew" on me... ha ha.
I found this plant was quite an amazing plant... as it continues to flower over and over again with a br |
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It is a lot easier than you think to prepare a ground for planting seeds and seedlings.
You will want to consider the quality of the soil before you begin a plot of land to prepare for seeds & seedlings.
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Radiation frost (also called hoar frost or hoarfrost) refers to the white ice crystals, loosely deposited on the ground or exposed objects, that form on cold clear nights when heat losses into the open skies cause objects to become colder than the surrounding air. A related effect is flood frost whi |
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Garden Time - Don't Kill your Weeds, Eat Them
Why apply chemicals to remove your weeds, when you can harvest them to eat! We wander through a backyard to assemble a salad with a plant expert
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According to what I have read this is commonly called the Hemlock Varnish Mushroom. It is of the Reishi family and evidently has medicinal qualities. http://mushroom-collecting.com/mushroomreishi.html |
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Frequent Inspection. Catch them early. One “colonizer” can produce up to 80 offspring in as little as a week and is capable of doing so several times. Slowly walk through your garden several times a week paying close attention to the underside of leaves. Also check for aphids on newly purchased plan |
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Wikipedia
In botany, leaf shape is characterised with the following terms (botanical Latin terms in brackets):
* Acicular (acicularis): Slender and pointed, needle-like
* Acuminate (acuminata): Tapering to a long point
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Anti-virals, like antibiotics, are intended to attack one class of infectious diseases, the viruses. And like antibiotics…. with less and less of the prescription ones seeming to work well.
Cat’s Claw (Uncaria Tomentosa ) - Although virtually unheard of in the United States until recently, th |
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The disease will cause pale green, pink white or brown fleshy galls, which are caused by the fungus Exobasidium vaccinii.
Exobasidium vaccinii also infects species of Vaccinium including cranberries where it produces bright red, swollen spots on the leaves and fruits. Infected stems become |
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The concept that the dreaded weed is really beneficial may be surprising for some, but there is an old adage that goes….’A weed is only a plant we do not yet know the uses and benefits of yet’.
This is so true. Dandelion and Chicory are diuretics, making elimination of excess fluids in the bo |
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Elf Cup Fungus |
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EXTREMELY TOXIC. The caps look similar to mushrooms in the genus Psilocybe, particularly the Psilocybe cyanescens and the Psilocybe subaeruginosa. They contain amatoxins which are highly toxic to the liver.
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Started with one last year. Neighbor warned it could be an Amanita (Destroying Angel). This year in early July, 3-4 popped up (Picture of opened mushrooom and mushroom with hand to show size. Now (August 1) nine more have popped up. (some hiding in Hosta). Does this look like an Amanita or does anyo |
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Flowers have held an eminent place in our art, religions, pharmacopoeia, and kitchens since ancient times. Tangled pea vines and primitive roses are depicted on Bronze Age artifacts. Mustard flowers were included in Roman love potions for their aphrodisiac powers.
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The best way that I've found to keep track of your seedlings and starts is to draw a planting diagram. This way even if some dog, cat, snot-nose or other large gardening pest knocks down your labels and signs, you will know which is which. It's good to take pictures of your seedlings when they first |
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