Category: Gardening

Folk remedies to combat late blight on tomatoes

Folk remedies to combat late blight on tomatoes

Late blight, or late blight, is a formidable and dangerous fungal disease (the causative agent is the fungus Phytophthora infestans) that affects plants of the Solanaceae family, as well as buckwheat, strawberries, castor oil plants. First of all, plantings of tomatoes suffer from phytophthora. Disease...

Planting winter garlic

Planting winter garlic

Most summer residents grow garlic on their backyard. This vegetable culture has found application not only in cooking, but also in medicine. By adding garlic as a fragrant seasoning to food, you not only improve its taste, but also improve its health ...

Pinching petunia

Pinching petunia

Pinching, or pinching, is a common agricultural technique. This operation is considered quite laborious, requiring accurate and painstaking work. Is pinching of petunias really necessary and when should it be done? What are the results...

Planting onions in the fall (before winter)

Planting onions in the fall (before winter)

In the "arsenal" of each gardener there is a whole stock of agrotechnical techniques, which can be conditionally divided into mandatory and optional. The first include those without which the cultivation of vegetables almost never does - planting, ...

Preparing conifers for winter

Preparing conifers for winter

Do you think it's just that modern landscape designers and ordinary summer residents love and actively use coniferous trees in the arrangement of personal plots? Different types of conifers, such as prickly spruce and spruce ...

Growing feijoa from seeds

Growing feijoa from seeds

Feijoa is an evergreen shrub or tree, up to three meters high, belonging to the Myrtle family. The plant got its name in honor of its discoverer, the naturalist Joao da Silva Feijo from Brazil. There are three plant forms: ...

Planting an oak tree

Planting an oak tree

Despite the laboriousness and complexity of cultivation, planting oak in personal and garden plots is not such a rare occurrence. What problems does a gardener face when wanting to own this mighty tree? Where to start To ...

Felt cherry: planting, growing, reproduction

Felt cherry: planting, growing, reproduction

Felt cherry (fluffy, Chinese) is a very popular culture among gardening enthusiasts from central Russia. Its spreading branches are covered with grayish-brown tomentose pubescence. Its main advantages are that this one is not very ...

Growing tomatoes on a windowsill

Growing tomatoes on a windowsill

Juicy appetizing tomatoes can be grown not only in the summer at their summer cottage or in a greenhouse. Useful and tasty fruits can be obtained at home by breaking a small vegetable garden on the windowsill. The choice of the variety. Of course, not everyone ...

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