How to protect pottery Pottery can freeze . They then break, or at best, the plants suffer the aggression of the cold causing their death. How to fix it if you cant return the pottery , for lack of space or because they are too heavy. Several processes are possible: – a full swaddle pot and plan

Its time for cleaning in the garden and the moment when we find ourselves with a large quantity of dry organic matter which, in the compost, has difficulty in evolving into a quality compost . How to compost? It is therefore necessary to reduce this dry matter . But shredders dont particularly lik

Naughty plant that exhausts the plants, even indoors. Green plants are sensitive to this cochineal which sucks their sap and thereby coats the leaves with honeydew on which a fungus develops. Three good reasons to be wary of the damage caused by this insect which knows no winter rest in our homes.

How to choose your rosebush? Beauty being subjective, it is your criteria that will make the difference, once you have selected the type of rosebush:ground cover, shrubby, climbing... Some rose growers present a range labeled ADR , understand Allgemeine Deutsche Rosenneuheitenprüfung which could be

Question from a user:I should choose which rootstock for my roses? Here is some technical information on the different types of rootstock used. Pros, cons, take your pick. The hardest part will be to know what the rose bush you are going to plant is grafted on... Nothing obliges a breeder to comm

According to Dominique SOLTNER: Hello Mr Soltner, You are absolutely right about the benefits of composting in place after mulching. And I find this practice much easier easier to be carried out with better results for the crops in place or to come. If I talked about shredding straw, leaves and

How to keep cut flowers at home at least a week: – Avoid putting the bouquet on an unstable place. Obviously if the vase falls… – Put the water in a very clean vase, clean the vase every two days with bleach . Be careful when handling bleach. – Cut the base of the flowers with a knife, no scissor

Its summer . The orchard gives and will continue to give until the first frosts. But the harvest is proportional to the health of the tree and the maintenance given to it. Winter or green pruning, fertilization, preventive and/or curative treatments and further upstream, the place of planting, the c

They cling to your sneakers, only let go when youve taken several steps and the soles of your shoes are weighed down with a few grams of soil.But who are these opportunistic stowaways? All the micro-dwellers of the soil that lodge in the clods of earth and that you carry between the spikes of your b

What to do in late August with raspberries? Keep eating the raspberries There should be some until frost, if the raspberries are remontant. That is to say, they go back to flower and therefore to fruit. The harvest is spread out from June to October – November, depending on the region.The non-remo

Question from a user:Sometimes my perennials go to bed. Are they sleepy? Or are they struggling to stand when theyve given so much? Causes and consequences Rain, wind, sometimes both get the better of them. And it is with pain but not without courage that they raise their heads to show once again

What goes well on the plate in spring with a tender radish, a tasty salad, a crunchy bean, you will answer me salted butter. Certainly, but we do not yet grow them in the vegetable garden. I wanted you to say the spring onion . And why speak in this early fall of the spring onion? because its still

Here is an email from Dominique Soltner, giving his experience. RASPBERRIES . Here is an experiment, of which I have a photo of all the stages, under the title:“After the raspberries”. Comparing two beautiful beds of raspberries, one remontant, the other not, I decided to abandon the non-remonta

Here is a table of unfavorable vegetable plant associations. We do not always know why, but observation takes precedence in this matter. There are things that we know:Alliaceae (garlic, onion, shallot, etc.) secrete bactericides through their roots, their presence is harmful to Fabaceae (legumes)

Question from a user: what are semi-shade plants? Plants in sun, partial shade or shade! Here are three names that provide information on the preferred location depending on the amount of sunshine, but that do not say enough. The interpretation is sometimes wrong. In general, sun plants tolera

The birds are doing a great job! Tree seedlings. They are not the only ones, of course, but all the same, lets recognize this as a customary practice among them. You will tell me that the small cherry trees or American honey locusts growing in the beds of perennials or between the rosebushes make a

It is customary in France to keep flowering plants as long as possible. No question of treating them as perishable goods like bouquets of flowers. But what a disappointment when the first leaves begin toyellow , or even fall! Here are some tips that will help you save your beautiful hotpots. Flower

Question from a blogger:“it seems that marigolds are effective against soil critters. Is this true and what variety should be planted? » Marigold has been shown to have a repellent influence on nematodes, small microscopic worms (2 mm long maximum) which live in the ground. Nematodes do serious da

Question from a user:What are the causes of a seedling that does not germinate ? Yes, it can happen to the most experienced among us. The first cause of non-emergence is the quality from the seed. If it is too old, the germination power is nil. Some seeds only keep the possibility of germinating

Question from a blogger:What is a strawberry plant? Obviously if the resellers use obsolete words... A biferous strawberry plant bears fruit several times a year . Now we use the word rising because it goes back to flowers, therefore to fruits. It has nothing to do with climbing! For example, re