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Pruning by Nature
We prune plants to make them more beautiful, to encourage flowering and to help them grow strong and healthy.
Some trees and shrubs never need to be pruned while others require a seasonal cutting.
Light pruning for health: Careful cuts throughout the year
go a long way to ensure healthier plants. Remove any part
of the plant that looks diseased before it can spread. Do not
prune later in the summer.
Pruning the natural way: Each species has its own natural
beauty, and pruning should enhance this form not fight it.
Work from the inside out. Strive to retain enough outer foliage so that each cut is cloaked in leaves.
Pruning deciduous flowering shrubs: How and when you
prune deciduous flowering shrubs influences the size and
quantity of blossoms, or whether they flower at all. The key
is to know when it flowers, and whether blossoms develop
on the older twigs or newly grown ones.
Recycle your prunings: Recycle
the clippings in your home, garden or city compost site.
(Source: www.monrovia.com)
Reading Herbal Tea Leaves: Benefits and Lore
Scientists in Boston, Massachusetts have looked into the
science-based evidence of health benefits from drinking three of
the most popular herbals in America.
Chamomile tea: The scientific literature on the bioactivity of
chamomile found no human clinical trials that examined the
calming effect. There are, however, findings describing test tube
evidence that chamomile tea has moderate antimicrobial activity
and significant antiplatelet-clumping activity.
Peppermint tea: In test tubes, peppermint has been found to
have significant antimicrobial and antiviral activities, strong
antioxidant and antitumor actions and some
antiallergenic potential.
Hibiscus tea: Based on a human
clinical trial, it’s been reported
that drinking hibiscus tea lowered blood pressure in a group
of pre-hypertensive and mildly
hypertensive adults.
(Source: www.ars.usda.gov)
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Maximum Yield USA | May 2011