User question:My oleander is sick all the time. It has blackish tumors on the twigs and leaves. The leaves fall and the branches dry up. I have a black oleander! It is a bacteriosis (disease caused by bacteria) that is on your oleander. Not much to do when the disease is installed, very often brou

As a general rule, anything that comes from living things can be composted. It is better to avoid what is cooked, as well as cheese, meat, fish because rodents are fond of it. The smells also, of fermentation of meat products are abominable. And the potato peelings? Potato peelings can go to the

Question from a user:I have my lettuce rotting at the foot. Its lettuce, its covered with a white felt at the foot and it looks like rot. What is that ? and how to get rid of it all? Im afraid of losing all my lettuces. Analysis White thatch with rot at the collar and on the lower leaves on your

Gardening is not an exact science. One can have a satisfactory result even if one does not follow the academic precepts to the letter. Especially since these have sometimes evolved to arrive at the opposite of what was recommended in the past. For example, we no longer turn over the earth, we decomp

Turn a balcony into a garden? Easy!! Well almost. All you have to do is determine what you want your garden to look like. Do you want flowers only? Plants you can bring in in the winter? Hiding from the neighbors balcony? Make a harvest of lettuces, radishes and tomatoes?You can also let your

ooGet rid of slugs in the garden with the Indian Runner Duck Text and photos:Mathilde Bouvier If youre thinking of buying one, dont worry too much about how youre going to raise it. It requires very little maintenance. Only a green space, a pond, a small hut to shelter it in the evening or a ba

Choose your tool garden is not trivial. Gardening is producing; vegetables, flowers, fruits… It is also making joy; the joy of sharing, of discovery. The garden is a source of benefits that we are not necessarily aware of.Eating healthy vegetables is almost a plus. Breathe, exert yourself, observe,

In the veil of wintering there is winter. The veil is therefore used to protect plants from the heat of winter, from the bites of negative temperatures. Except that, with this winter which is not one, in view of the temperatures worthy of March or even April, the winter veil does not do much. This i

What to do in the garden after the rain and these episodes in the Cévennes which saw the earth take on its back 8 months of rain in a few days? Its high time...to not hurry . The garden needs rest, in the sense that it would be inappropriate to work the soil, or even to walk on it. Water needs tofl

October, and planting garlic in temperate zones. In the south, we plant the garlic in autumn. Just be careful of water stagnation that would cause them to rot. The trick is to plant the bulbs on mounds of about ten cm (billon) and to push the garlic of 3 cm maximum. Obviously garlic prefers sandy s

Creating a bed of perennials requires a number of actions to be done in order. This is how I organized my day. Preparing the soil is the most...least fun part of it. Raking gravel and removing stones the largest present on the surface; the number of fossilized mole eggs hints at the use of the pick

Autumn is the time for planting and some deciduous plants are offered on the market as bare roots ” that is to say without earth around, in opposition to the container. One of the advantages of bare root is the significantly lower price compared to the same volume of container plant. On the other ha

The Melrose at the Tree Days of St Jean du Gard, the return. 7 growers to find a Melrose apple tree in tip. Whatever, I have it! owl ! I discovered this apple in the orchard of the Jardiniers de France head office in Valenciennes, since I worked there for 6 years. So I had time to taste and appreci

Choosing your potato, essential before buying. Easy to say, there are so many varieties.Three main criteria to make a successful choice:when I would like to eat my potatoes, how I will cook them, and should I process them every 4 mornings! First criterion :there are so-called early or early, semi-

I took this photo just before Christmas at the Botanic store in Clapiers (34). This arrangement is worthy of appearing in a painting or a plant composition (if you have a large garden…) Botanic plant presentation (Clapiers, 34) Lets talk colors: The shades are wintry, a mixture of gray and pink

After this episode of intense rain, and relative mildness, the sun appears in an azure blue sky. Its like that winter in the south, finally in the Gard. The north wind rose and carried the gray masses beyond the sea. The temperature is very mild, 13°C forecast for January 21st. But who says clear sk

Permaculture is a culture process, or rather a set of processes that wants to get as close as possible to nature. But it is also a way of thinking. Permaculture, which can be understood by permanent culture, applies everything that nature does so that we, human beings, can have sustainable agricul

Cutworm, moth larva Well here is the first parasite of the garden, the cutworm ! moth moth larvae is a voracious. Unfortunately for her, while scratching the ground near the corpse of lettuce, I found her and savagely crushed without remorse! Unfortunately for me, she was not alone. Also the next d

Oh how good it is to put the seed in the ground. Especially when she gives birth to a new plant. But what a disappointment when nothing rises. The primary cause of poor emergence is poor sowing, often too buried seed. Not easy when these small circles (not always by the way) merge with grains of san