What to do in months of August

What to do in months of August

Prepare for fall planting turnips.
Sow Online thinning and clearing, 1 turnip leave every 10 cm. approx. Water copiously to accelerate and avoid pushing the heat of last fall.

To keep turnips, put them in boxes filled with sand, put them in horizontal layers. Turnips are in association with lettuce and peas.

To avoid the attack to white strawberry, bury tops of turnips at the foot of strawberry. Fleeing to the odor of crucifers, same with the cabbage, cauliflower and chopped rape stems.

Try the variety yellow gold ball to the yellow flesh and taste fine. The young foliage is fresh turnip salad nicely. Do not forget to prepare leeks "pencils" of spring.

Sow seeds of very sparse blue Solaise and does not include bedding plants. In cold weather protect them with a tunnel with plastic or straw.

By late March, the butter to make them more tender. Enjoy them like asparagus, or warm with parmesan shavings and sprinkled with olive oil. Repique leeks winter, beginning in August as the varieties that are resistant to cold blue Solaise "" Monstrueux of Caratan.

Remove the plants too low, cut the roots, leaving only 2 to 3 cm. long. Cut the leaves of plants leaving only 15 to 20 cm. green. Plant them in a moist but not soggy and bury the plant up to the foliage. Water your plants to watering in order to have a moderate speed but not by spraying.

Repique feet of mint, choose a location in the shade.
Repique several species peppermint best known, it brings freshness to many dishes.

Bergamot mint with citrus scents. Green mint and pennyroyal. To avoid that it takes too much space, bedding plants in pots of reasonable size and then bury them in the garden. Thus it does not spread.

In late summer made cuttings of sage, taken with a cutter, drawing together a small stub shaft. Coat this small stub rod ormoni growth and planting in small pots containing an equal mixture of peat and sand.

In spring you metterez up these cuttings. Make cuttings of different sages, such as the variety "Rutilians" sent pineapple. It gives a roast pork or a fruit salad.

Sow chicory, batavia, lettuce, lamb's lettuce for fall and winter.
"The blonde improved salad tender is harvested until April, can be consumed young, make them blanch by covering a bell, they will be better after the first cold.

Batavia in "Pierre-blessed to large apple, slow to rise in grain is harvested until October.
The lettuce very hardy and slow to rise in grain is harvested until October.
The mâche green Cambrai "variety at the heart full resists cold and is harvested from December to March.

You can protect your salads with a veil of winter. Chicory need heat to germinate. Lettuce prefer partial shade and a chewy, where the soil must remain moist.

Sow carrots in place of winter, tetragona, winter cabbage, the mesclun, chervil or common frisé sow it with small amount every 15 days, to prevent the rising chervil seeds during hot.