Biologists learn to study the different physical features of a plant. All plants have different parts of their bodies that are designed to perform certain functions. Once you understand this, you will have an even better understanding of your garden and the way that all of the parts fit together. This will help your plants live longer, and your garden to become beautiful more quickly.
Pruning is a key element of plant management. Even healthy plants can generate dead limbs or branches, which will end up yielding you nothing and may end up harming the plant over time. During dormant phases for plant life, such as in winter or very early spring, you can prune those parts off plants, which will then grow healthy replacements for those parts, most of the time. This will increase your overall yield, eventually, as replacing dead parts with living parts will give your plant more places to sprout fruit.
If you know what your plant is supposed to look like at its different growth phases, then you will be able to tell when it is surrounded by weeds — and to leave it in the ground instead of yanking it up with them. You are cultivating a garden, and so you need to be familiar with all of its parts. If you are not, then you will fail to notice it when weeding, and you may end up killing the plant as a result. You don’t have to become a biologist to do this; just commit to knowing the species that you have put in your garden.
Harmful weeds can tear their way through a garden, leaving you with plants that have been terrorized by the rapacious actions of the weeds in the soil. It doesn’t take long for certain weeds to spread rapidly, so it is important that you spend some time, several days a week, poring through your garden and finding weeds that need to come out. If you do not, the overall symmetry of your garden can suffer, as weeds grow and push your desired plants out of the way.
If you know what a plant is supposed to look like, when it is healthy, then you will have an easier time protecting it from disease and from other malaises. Knowing what an unhealthy plant looks like will help you know when it is being attacked by parasites; being able to identify the specific problem will help you find a solution even more quickly, which means that the overall health of your garden will not be as threatened when just one pest or disease shows up.
Different plants grow in different ways. You want to familiarize yourself with your plants’ growth patterns so, as they mature, you will be able to protect them from outside harm more effectively.
Gardeners need to take the time to learn all they can about the plants they are growing. Learning about your plant will help you save it from internal disease or external predator, making for a longer lasting garden.