What to do in the month of February

If your climate allows and that the soil is frozen, prepare the land for potatoes and early sowing. In western France plant shallots.

In the layer is sow carrots, cabbage and radish cabus force. In the south if it freezes well, sow in the ground short carrots, chervil, chicory, spinach, beans, lamb's lettuce, leeks.

Continue planting fruit trees.

Consider the need to sow parsley makes many services and pleasant scent food preparation. Its germination is slow (3 to 5 weeks) superstition says he had to do 7 laps at the devil before germinating.

To avoid this trip diabolical, soak the seeds in a glass of warm water a few hours before planting to soften the envelope very hard. Add a little sand at planting, cover soil to 0.5 cm and place it in the dark by placing a plank over.

He loves to be with onions yellow straw virtues of "their help in lifting it. Sow as curly parsley, Italian parsley whose taste is incomparable, there is also a root Parsley who sows and tasted like a turnip or celeriac. When you earn to keep and to keep its flavor, chop it and freeze it immediately.

Expenses you can keep a few days, washed and placed in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

If you have a clear local and temperate (18 to 20 °) make your tomato seedlings in a box filled with soil, lightly pack the surface, lay the seeds one by one to 1 cm. intervals, then cover with a thin layer of soil, retassez, rain water in very thin and cover with glass until the end.

Transplanting them into buckets when they reached 15 cm. (5 to 7 sheets) by burying the base of the stems. Transplanting them into the earth early May, dig a large hole (30 cm. In diameter).

Avoid exes of nitrogen, the flesh becomes watery and not very tasty, better fertilizer rich in potash. For bastes practice Grand'Mère, grind in a mixer 6 egg shells in a liter of water to every 15 days, you get more healthy fruits and earlier.

And when the fruits grow larger and begin to take color, add 1 tsp. tablespoons of sugar in the water, your tomatoes will be melting.

In temperate regions you can sow radishes in force. Radish up quickly, they will be consumed 18 to 20 days later. Sow seeds of radish flower circle the earth for the seeds of radish long, push them to 2 cm.

To be crisp and not spicy radishes are growing quickly, the soil must be moistened frequently. For a constant production divide your packet of seeds in 2 or 3 seed and the same amount every 10 to 15 days.

Be aware that early sowing of radishes harvested in April and early May are not attacked by the maggot turnip after cover your plants with an anti-insect net.

Radish does not support large heat sow them in the shadow of climbing beans and tomatoes. The tops of radishes are rich in minerals and vitamins, mixing young leaves to a green salad and a soup made with the oldest. In Asian cuisine, if you have trouble you with water hyacinth, cut a few radish roses or black depending on their season, they will replace this scarce commodity.

Under the Mediterranean climate, you can start sowing savory, or on a balcony exposed to the south, in planters. In the north of France it is better to wait a few weeks.

You can renew a late May sowing, for harvesting until late November, "the Satureja hortensis" annuals and sow each year, the two species S. Montana is a perennial and hardy, they grow all the earth and sun light.

They both have a peppery taste, slightly pungent. Use the leaves with dried vegetables (especially beans) and meat, add them at the end of cooking.

By sowing the savory scent you happy bees.

Think of planting Coqueret of Peru known as Physalis garden, harvesting is done in August-September when the fruits are out alone (a small round fruit, yellow or orange in a flower-shaped lantern) You enjoy the thought or jam.

Note that the development of Peru Coqueret rods nearly 1 meter in height and forms a bush. Use a soil for planting, cover it with a thin layer of soil, water and pack gently.

Keep them in a clear temperature between 18 and 20 ° C. until this March, follow the instructions listed on the package of seeds for planting and you can have the pleasure to harvest this nice little round fruit taste sour.