Lovage "ache for the mountains or celery perpetual" is a perennial whose foliage disappears in winter. Choose it a shady corner. The young shoots are eaten in salads, leaves for the stew or soup, they provide a delicious taste of celery.
The young stems are preserved in sugar as angelic. Transplanting some plants near the angelic. Attention lovage is irritating to the kidney for persons suffering from kidney infection and pregnant women, lovage is prohibited. Cut it at the beginning of winter it will push next year.
The spinach New Zealand spinach, summer or tetragona retort "do not like the heat, be careful because it is the flower, plant it well away from the beans to train or in the shade of corn or install it a shadehouse leaving air circulating.
Give him a rich and fresh. Its leaves are more fleshy than those of spinach. For spring planting, choose spinach slow climb seed "Viking" "alpha f1" f1 delta "or symphony f1"
If the leaves are dark green and heavily blistered, reduce inputs of nitrogen, they are too rich in nitrate and cultivate them more sun. Leaves pale green and smooth, the rate is low. But in any case, eat them immediately, so that nitrates do not become nitrite "toxic substances".
The nasturtiums were first reported from South America to Europe in the sixteenth century, cultivated as garden plants, their pungent taste reminiscent of watercress alénois.
The annual flowers of nasturtiums are eaten without fear in salads. (do not mix, drop them for decoration because they are weak).
In a few weeks they will give you a charming decor. Garden to sow them among the vegetable varieties dwarf or semi-dwarf "insert rows between the beans, salad, beans, radishes, cabbage or tomatoes feet. The balcony in a large wooden tray, plant a solid tutor center. Reach a dozen string between the tutor and the edges of the tray. Then sow the climbing nasturtiums.
In a few weeks you'll have a beautiful potted flowers until fall.
- "Dwarf varieties" tom thumb "(mixed variety)
- "Cherry pink" (pink flowers)
- "Golden yellow" (yellow flowers)
- "Scarlet" (red flowers)
The nasturtiums vegetables to help fight against aphids.
In a corner of the garden or bacon sow caraway. Les Francs-Comtois and the Alsatians called "cumin des prés. Its seeds are widely used in Nordic cuisine to flavor breads, cakes, cheese and cabbage. Caraway biennial plant, the first year it will form leaves and flowers the second year. Its beautiful white umbels amount seeds, cut them just before maturity and hang them over a muslin on which the seeds fall.
Try poivrette or black cumin, this is Nigelle cultivated near the Nigelle de Damas. It is sown in spring. You will reap the fruits bulging as they are dry, open them to release the seeds and keep them dry. Grind them to add them to your dishes or sprinkle bread and buns. After eating of garlic, chew out some, to have fresh breath.
Sow warm pickles away, in small pots filled with compost at a temperature of 18 ° C. to germinate. Leave them outdoors until the end of May, while still protecting them during the night with bells.
Water them regularly without wetting foliage sensitive to fungal diseases (fungi) Prepare in advance their location in the garden, install a plastic mulch that will heat the soil. If you place early April, you will gain 1 to 2 weeks to put your plants in soil. The plastic film unsightly departing quickly disappear under the vegetation.
If you want small gherkins, pick every 2 days for sizes larger (7 cm. Approx.) Every 3 days.
Pick them in the cool before the sun begins to warm. Short range "little Paris green half-long" end of Meaux "very productive, the longest" improved Bourbon "was seen as a cucumber once it has reached 10 cm. Variety hybrid f1 "only female flowers and is resistant to disease. "nib f1" early berries "paragynot f1 fruit farms, keep their color in the vinegar. Then a variety not difficult "witlo f1.
The neighborhood supports the pickles are celery, asparagus, cabbage, beans, lettuce, onion, peas and corn. As against the potatoes and tomatoes are unfavorable.
Plant 1 or 2 feet of angels, we require a land and not smoke too much sun, feet mulch and water regularly.
You harvest the stems, the second year it flowers abundantly in the third year. Cook the stems, they are pleasantly salmon or have them given.
Sow in pans in a mixture of garden soil and potting soil, some seeds of zucchini (about 4.) Keep only 2 plants and then put in place from May 15
Zucchini moved without difficulty and cleans the floor. Plant it in a corner or your garden is not in the best shape. She loves the neighborhood of beans, potatoes and corn. Watch courgettes when measured not more than 25 cm. beyond their tough skin and flesh is floury and full of seeds. Furthermore you can prevent the formation of new fruits.
Pick the male flowers, when they come to open up, prepare them immediately as they fade before noon. Do fritters or stuffed them to your taste and go in the oven. A male flower does not bulge at the start of the stem. This bulge, which gives the result in the female flower.
Sow scorzonera and salsify by burying the seeds well, they remain cool and protected from the greed of birds.
Watch salsify leaves, as soon as the symptoms, the pustules filled with white powder of spores, often brilliant develops on leaves and sometimes stems, of fungicide treatments difficult to come to grips with this disease. Remove affected parts and destroy them in the immediate future.
For an early harvest of beets. Prepare plants in greenhouses, the month of April in buckets filled with garden soil and planting them (when it freezes over) by protecting them with a veil of forcing. Pick them when they reach the size of a golf ball. For this type of crop, spacing them every 10 cm.
The late varieties will keep several months if they are harvested in the autumn before frost. Let the roots dry out 1 day in air, rain. Cut the foliage bending by hand, then remove the coarsely ground. Then, put them in the basement in boxes filled with sand or peat in just moist at a temperature between 0 and 5 ° C. Count to ten beets (quantity for 1 person) 2 m. linear. In the case of canned for the winter, planning to double.
Cucumbers sow them in April at the shelter, not put them in place until the second half of May to 60 cm. from each other. Protect them for 3 weeks with bells or chassis moving during the night. For varieties runners, good plan 2 by M2 plant.
Cut the seedlings as soon as their stem leaves 4 door, cut the top of the stem leaving only the bottom 2 leaves. Let 4 fruits on each plant, you'll get beautiful results. As soon as one is almost ready, let in another form and so on. For fruit straight, when they start to grow, drag each fruit in a bottle of mineral water plastic (cut both ends of the cylinder).
If you need more space, plant varieties not runners, they occupy a square meter. They grow very well in a large pot on a balcony in 2 to 3 spice guardians linked them to support the fruit. Varieties not common "bush champion f1 or f1 petita.
- In the harsh climate in the ground seed, peas, beans, potato sprouts.
- Under homeless cabbage, tomatoes, zucchini.
- In lowland climate sow in place, salads, beets, chard, cabbage, beans, spinach, onions, radishes, sweet corn, and sow basil indoors.
- In oceanic climate sow parsley, coriander, dill, chervil. Plant thyme, bay, chives, cabbage, onions and potatoes.
- In mild Mediterranean climate sow cardoons. Plant zucchini, tomatoes, melons, watermelons .
- In the hot Mediterranean climate sow up cardoons, Chayotes squash, watermelons ..
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