Prune Raspberries removing all the branches or ends you have fruit. For varieties that are not going back, headed the current year's growth. Palissez branches. If time does not permit the planting of fruit trees. Install them near a wall facing north burying the roots in a trench.
Plant garlic purple, enjoy the young shoots in the spring. Whether pink or white, transplanting the seed in late winter, you will reap in summer. In a land that does not retain water, therefore, little clay, plant cloves of purple garlic, twenty enough for family consumption. If you want more, complete with garlic rose more fragrant. Set in a land bêchée to 2 cm. deep. Plant a row of garlic around your artichokes, flower bulbs etc. .. voles away your favorite plants. In winter, put a few bay leaves and cloves of peeled garlic in different parts of the fruit. Raw or cooked garlic has its place in many dishes.
Repique in flower pots or cuttings of rosemary. Expose the south, if you're in a very cold, bring the pots in a bright room. Keep only the earth a little cooler. Rosemary grows rapidly and behave as you wish, you can give a ball, cone, in the heart etc. .. To do this select rosemary whose main stem is straight, the pruning shears to remove the lowest branches and repeat this treatment each year up to the desired height. Train then head to the desired shape. It takes one shoot 1 m. 20 to 1 m. 50 in 2 years. You can make cuttings with shoots removed. This is a good companion for all varieties of cabbage, turnips, beans .. it repels insects and diseases, smell the strong dislike of the carrot fly. It eliminates fleas and ticks on your dog. After championg, rinse your dog with an infusion of rosemary (1 / 2 cup dried rosemary leaves per liter of water) An infusion of rosemary relieves rheumatism.
For the artichokes in late fall, cut the larger outer leaves, fold the leaves plants at 30 cm. Link to tighten up the sheets against each other, surround them with kraft paper before butter with sand, the fine earth, dead leaves, cold ash to form a waterproof screen in frost. In case of heavy frosts, cover them with a handful of straw that you withdraw from the premierréchauffement. The foliage does that - 2 ° C. and in summer it does not like heat. If you want to wait to plant the month of March.
Plant trees and shrubs fruit even in a small garden. You can make a few desserts. If you have more space to install a shade gooseberries. When you put them in soil, plant the Groseillers 5 to 10 cm. deeper than in the container or nursery of origin, and they produce many releases. Pack the soil well and end with a good watering. After planting the stems fold to two-thirds of their length. Always cut the stems above a bud facing out. This size encourages vigorous growth.
At the end of winter (February) prick guardians of your bushes Groseillers, ask there are empty cans inside out. At the slightest breath of wind just ringing them to keep birds. Do this as soon as the buds swell until the first leaves appear. If early frost, keep you from planting Groseillers in the fall. Put them in gauge housed in a corner of the garden and wait for spring. (You should draw a deep furrow, drag-y plants and cover the roots of slight earth and rich in humus. Water and protect from frost by covering it with straw or branches.
If you already have Groseillers, sésie the fight against this parasite digs tunnels in the stems. Locate autumn twigs frippées and dry, cut them and burn them. Thus you destroy insects sleeping in their cocoons.
Myrtillier planting, prepare the soil, because it does not grow everywhere. Dig a trench 60 cm. deep and 50 cm. wide, fill the bottom of a long-lasting waterproof film of 1 m. 20 wide to make a return of 35 cm. on each side. Garnish the tray with a bed of gravel and soil humus and fresh. Moisture stagnate and at leisure for these plants to soil choking.
If you can put 1 / 3 of adult subjects and the rest in young plants. The first will quickly fine crops, while the latter does occur after 4 to 5 years (ie that the production of it over 20 years, despite the expectation is a great consolation) They love Company rhododendrons or camellias. Cover the feet of 5 cm. sawdust or chips of oak or pine.
You incorporate after 1 year of residence on the surface. Bring humus from a compost of leaves as you add mulch once a year. The myrtillier likes full sun.
Each winter bring your cassissier a shovelful of compost or well decomposed compost.
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