Start sowing and planting is in spring and summer that the advantage of picking flowers, recipes to prepare flowers, fresh, fragrant and colorful.
For a list of flowers was not consume as TOXIC, see list in kitchen recipes flower.
Sow the salad in place, make planting very clear line, once developed, be sure to clarify.
In mid-March you can start the size of the fish, when the buds are properly inflated without being opened, treat the blister fish.
Plant the feet of mint, onions yellow straw virtues "near the parsley.
Sow dill in temperate regions.
For other regions further north, wait until April-May in good exposure.
Harvest the leaves as you need.
In July collect the leaves for salads, carpaccio of salmon.
Let them dry, they perfume the fish as fennel, its scent is more pungent and slightly minty.
When the plant goes to seed, collect them, mix in the fresh or preserved in a liqueur.
To attract your garden in good insects and bad not sow it with flowers here and there, they will attract the beetles, the lacewing, the hoverflies and other natural enemies of aphids, caterpillars etc. ...
Sow worries, borage, dill, coriander, nasturtium dwarf.
Coriander and dill have a protective effect against the carrot fly, mix the seeds with carrot and parsley.
Borage flowers to make your meals, a small iodine taste.
Enjoy spring with salads, they also are used in tea against cough.
You can still plant and raspberry bushes, watch them closely and be sure to water them.
Divide your feet chives every 3 years in spring or autumn of preference.
Cut regularly with the scissors, flush from the earth, to make it stronger.
When planted at the foot of roses, it is very effective against the disease and odium of black spots.
Cut them small pink flowers that hinder the harvest of leaves, cut them at the base, there is a button and turn it into small bunches of fresh or dried, upside down. (keep some in the seeds of your future plantation).
Chive omelette pleasant scent, white cheese or salad.
Set the sauce-bay, you will use in every season its aromatic leaves.
Persistent tree growing in the shelter of a wall to the south or in pots in cold region, you enter the big announcement of jelly.
Cut it in early spring and dry twigs.
Use the leaves in pâtés, pickles, fish and grilled meat and bouquet garni.
Do not shoot the biggest you will make the kebabs, stir a sauce with a pleasant scent the shoot, as were our grandmothers.
Jerusalem not to be confused with the Swede, vegetable shunned and forgotten for a long time, this is certainly due to the bad memories left to those who lived through the last war.
The Jerusalem artichoke is a tuber shape tarabiscotée white flesh with a slight taste of artichoke.
The high plant stems (3 m.) ending with flowers reminiscent of yellow daisies that bloom in autumn.
Some people like the taste of Jerusalem, but do not digest their accasionnant flatulence and sometimes dizziness digestive origin. In contrast to potato, Jerusalem does not contain starch, a sugar called inulin neighbor, and everyone does not have the enzymes that help digest inulin. Even the best spices are powerless.
The Jerusalem artichoke is a plant footprint, plant it on one side of your garden or as a screen in front of your compost pile.
Small voles are very fond of the tubers, they did leave the skin.
To prevent the invasion of these small rodents, dig a moat around your square of Jerusalem, and stuffing it with dry leaves of walnut.
Pull the tubers before consumption because they can be kept very low.
Remember to loosen the ground around your feet rhubarb.
You can begin in late March early April to sow the leeks until May.
Once they reach the size of a pencil, transplanting them to their final position.
In cold climate strawberry plant canopy forcing.
In Mediterranean climate sow squash, zucchini, watermelons, bulk plant tomatoes, peppers, melons, eggplants.
Offer the hottest corner to corner melonsOffrez the hottest melons because they are very cautious at the foot of a wall to the south, the shelter with a chassis until end of May. By late March sowing at home or in a greenhouse, kept at a temperature of 20 ° C. Repique to June 15 you will harvest in July-August
For August-September harvest sow them in May in the ground by protecting seedlings with a bell. For most seeds germinate prick the bottom edge, press 3 seeds at 1 cm. deep in small cups filled with a mixture of compost and sandy loam. Keep the most beautiful plant when transplanting.
Cut seedlings in 3 steps.
when they have 4 leaves, cut the stem over the first 2.
pinch the new stems above the 3rd leaf.
Then wait until the first fruits appear, count 2 sheets on top of each and cut the tips of the stems, remove any shoots that do not bear fruit.
Do not let more than 4 to 5 fruits per plant.
(Cut the young fruit will form in addition to 4 or 5 fruits to preserve, if the size of a walnut, they will make excellent pickles)
Cover young plants if the temperature is below 20 ° C. with a mobile chassis or bells, this overnight and the water in the morning with warm water, it compensates for the lack of heat.
Insulate your melons Soil sliding plate underneath a tile or wood, when they reach the size of an orange.
Collect them with a piece of the stem, they will keep a few days at home.
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