For sowing and planting in May, watch for ice Saints. After the passage of the holy ice, vegetation no longer fear the late frosts. Saints de glace (Pancrace Saint, Saint and Saint Servais Mamert is respectively 11, 12, 13 May) for a long time, it was found that around these dates, a sudden drop in temperature could occur and morning to fear frost disastrous for plantations.
Sow the detriment also called "caps voters" of the squash family. Sow them in the ground for 3 or 4 seeds per poquet.
Grow them in a land exposed but not too rich, you keep it longer. If your land is dry, form a watering basin around the base. It will facilitate water watering.
Mulch thoroughly with waste ground or mow the lawn healthy. As against if your ground is wet, plant on a mound of 10 cm. in height and about mulch well. You eat stuffed or grated.
This lovely white vegetable is deliciously perfumed with the flavor of artichoke. Pick the fruit with a piece of the stalk for a better conservation.
Bedding plants peppers, if you prefer a spicy harvest does not use fertilizer. Prefer compost or manure added a phosphate or wood ash is rich in potash.
For chili peppers, n'arrosez more than 15 days before harvest. The peppers are decorative plants, choose varieties of different color. You can mix with flower beds.
Pluck the first fruits formed, even if not yet red, the plant will continue to flourish and your production will increase. The green peppers dry well and are a little weaker than the red.
Cut the fruit carefully to secateurs or scissors, do not pluck the stalks, tearing the skin you open the door to disease. To keep rabbits, rodents, squirrel ... and a lot of insects.
Spray a solution of water and filtered hot pepper (1 tsp. Tablespoons chili for 4 liters of water) you can add garlic to enhance the action. Keep peppers strung on a thread as a necklace or place them in jars ventilated (without sealing) or cut them into small pieces or flour with a mixer. It is advisable to make these preparations to wear gloves.
Bedding plants gherkins, purchased from the seed. The variety of more traditional "small gray" which is most suitable for canning.
So they take up less space in the garden, make them up on a net stretched between 2 row high stakes of 1.50 m. Pick them before the sun begins to heat, they will be stronger and will keep better.
Consider common sow chervil, 1 gr. enough seed to plant 30 CM2. The seedlings raised in 10 days and the first harvest takes place from 6 to 7 weeks later. Water it regularly, he horror of the drought.
Grow it in shade. Let rise in a portion of seed stalks for seeding future is completely natural. He goes to seed in early fall and offers its best trees throughout the winter and spring before going to flower in summer. Freeze chopped leaves in the form of ice cubes made in broth or a little water. They will be used for soups, sauces etc ...
Buy touffe tarragon and transplanting it into a well drained soil it does not support humidity, indispensable in gardens and on balconies. Feel free to mix a little sand to land. (a good shovelful of sand and another hole in the ground of culture)
The tarragon flavor "gherkins in vinegar, pickles" he adorns vegetarian dishes, and makes easier the salt-free diets. The Russian tarragon, sold seed plants gives very little fragrance.
Sow the first curly chicory endives in nurseries or by keeping them warm until the end and semi-darkness.
Towards the end of May you can plant pumpkins for Halloween to gather in a rich and sunny. Plant the seeds vertically, pointing down.
Insulate the fruits of the earth, because they are susceptible to decay of a very cool basement, call them a bed of pebbles, put them on a flower pot back on a tile or slate plate. For keep asking them to planks covered with straw, keeping at a temperature of 5 to 10 ° C. or hang them in nets high up in a cool dry place. Their thick skin allows them solid and conservation for several months.
For a fun decoration or your children sow the colocynth, prepare materials and decorate them climb fences. For pumpkins and colocynth, reap the rewards after the morning dew has evaporated, after the rain waiting for several days. Pick the fruit with a piece of stem. When colocynth are dry, place a small layer of varnish, cleaning will be simplified. Children can paint, they can also be emptied into boxes of treasure. You can keep your seeds when dry and empty. They will not be attacked by parasites.
To ensure a harvest of autumn, you can sow carrots late May early June. Leave 1 plant every 5 to 10 cm.
Mulch your strawberries to raise healthy fruit.
Sow beans of all kinds. You can still plant in early May, scorzonera, salsify, beets and chard.
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