Treat Root Rot in Houseplants With Hydrogen Peroxide
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Plant people know that it’s not only important to water your plant you also have to know when enough is enough. It can be really easy to overwater a plan, especially one that only needs to be watered once a week. You may think you’re doing your plant a favour by sneaking it a little more water than it technically requires, making sure it stays hydrated.
salares,” and felsic lava flows towards the Andes. However, in this hostile landscape that is often compared with the surface of Mars, Professor Francisca Santana-Sagredo, from the
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile , Santiago, Chile, discovered “robust agricultural systems” that she claims “supported pre-Incan civilizations for centuries.”
The researcher set out to answer why pre-Hispanic archaeological records of northern Chile detail large quantities of diverse crops suggesting a high level of agricultural success had been achieved, but until now “has defied explanation.” The research project tried to discover how fruits and vegetables might have been cultivated in such a barren salty region and Francisca Santana-Sagredo and colleagues analyzed samples of “maize, chili pepper, gourd, beans, quinoa and wild local fruits from the Atacama Desert dated between 1000 BC and AD 1800.”