Garden 2024, September

The fruit was single, elongated and beautifully striped in color. He grew up by September. And when I cut it, its flesh was with a light watermelon aroma without a hint of sugariness and had a very neutral taste

Waltham Butternut Squash pumpkin is considered the American pumpkin champion for its taste

It's time to return a tasty and healthy vegetable parsnip to Russian vegetable gardensAs you know, everyone grows carrots, but its close relative, parsnips, which are sometimes called white carrots (they look very much like carrots, but have a yellowish-white root crop), are now found only in some gardeners

Balsamic tansy and balsamic pyrethrum will give you their wonderful aromasProbably everyone who is at least a little familiar with their native nature has seen common tansy (Thanacetum vulgare), a common plant for Russia - the Cinderella of our fields and meadows

Marjoram is valued as a spicy aromatic, medicinal, and more recently as an essential oil plant. This plant is used as a medicinal and spice plant. As a spice, it is used for canning and sausage production, in cooking and winemaking. Marjoram is nicknamed sausage herb, as in many countries it serves as the main seasoning for sausages

In my garden, white cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kohlrabi and red cabbage grow. She also planted Brussels, but only once got a good harvest. I cannot find the early varieties of this cabbage, and the later ones do not have time to ripen

My composting takes place next to the plants - in the paths, and carbon dioxide is not lost. In this case, the formation of humus occurs, also near the plants themselves. This is where I see the benefits of compost paths

Common fennel ( Foeniculum vulgare mill. ) called pharmacy dill, Voloshsky dill. The homeland of fennel is considered to be the Mediterranean - Southern Europe and Asia Minor. In the wild, it is found in the Crimea and the Caucasus. If ordinary dill is familiar to everyone, then its closest relative - fennel is less known

Cladosporium is a tomato disease that loves warmth and humidity, and in our area it develops only in greenhouses. Plants with weakened immunity are sick. This is a very common disease, and I saw this disease much more often than late blight

In the grocery store, you can often find cute, bleached dense "heads" of fennel. However, I am sure that few people know what kind of vegetable it is, how it is useful and how to cook it. Let's get to know this rare plant so far

Organics used as mulch cannot be called plant nutrition. Plants do not "eat" grass, straw, compost, etc. Microbes, fungi, insects, worms decompose organic matter to a state that can be assimilated by plants

Our garden plot is over 40 years old. As soon as spring comes, we spend almost all our free time on it. We grow a huge amount of tomatoes, sweet peppers, other vegetables, herbs, berries. There is a place on the site for your favorite pumpkins

Our experts recommend feeding at least twice a season. The Dutch and Finnish recommend spraying every 7-10 days. I have been using this option for a long time and can honestly confirm that the results are stunning

It is known that after a pick, a significant slowdown in the growth of pepper seedlings occurs. This is due to the sensitivity of the sweet roots to the slightest mechanical stress. To avoid this, let's try to grow peppers without picking. But how?

It takes 12-15 years to create a hybrid. But the "novelty" of the hybrid, at the same time, lasts about 5-6 years, due to the competition of breeding companies, which gives rise to a more popular hybrid, superior to its predecessor

Cucumbers, of course, are almost irreplaceable vegetables for us. They are good fresh and, and few people refuse salted or pickled crispy cucumbers. However, in this article we will not talk about cucumbers at all, but about their interesting substitute - cucumber grass

There have already been a lot of publications about the cultivation of garlic in the magazine. I don't think it's worth repeating everything again. I just want to highlight some of the accents that seem important to me. This is especially true for the cultivation of winter garlic

In practice, when working in the garden, it is very often required to quickly get an answer to one or another question in order to immediately make the right decision. I hope that our cheat sheets will help many with this

Can we now raise the question of reducing the use of mineral fertilizers? Not! Can we switch to alternative and biological, organic farming? Not! This is a return to the Middle Ages, a deliberate advancement of our state towards hunger. Here are some proofs from publications of foreign scientists

Among all the variety of vegetables currently prevailing on our table, one of the places of honor is occupied by such a culture as beets. The homeland of this root crop is the coast of the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Until now, its wild forms grow in this area and are a plant with fleshy leaves and a tough, white and bitter root

Winter garlic is the easiest crop to cultivate and, moreover, it requires the least amount of labor. In order to assess the "labor intensity" of garlic, I once wrote down the time spent on cultivating one hundred square meters of this crop. In total, it turned out about two working days ( 12 hours ) one person's work, including collecting foliage for mulching

If the soil in the greenhouse is poorly warmed up, then the fruiting of the tomato is shifted by a week or more. And the soil warms up very slowly in spring, which negatively affects the development of the plant. A favorable soil temperature allows the formation of ridges

Pumpkin, a popular vegetable in Italy, decorates gardens and balconies, gives surprisingly tasty fruits and flowers to the tableExtraordinary, delicious, generous! Pumpkin is the most colorful, colorful vegetable of autumn! Orange fruits of a unique shape among the green lace of openwork leaves seem to radiate sunlight, their beauty turns the vegetable garden into a garden

Having negative experience, we decided for the new greenhouse to make a solid foundation and sides of the ridges of concrete. Given the thickness of the walls, each bed turned out to be 50 cm wide, and there were also two passes 45 cm wide

Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin founder of scientific breeding of fruit and other cropsOctober 28, 2010 marks the 155th anniversary of the birth of the great breeder, biologist and geneticist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin. Unfortunately, the name of IV Michurin has recently begun to be forgotten, and not even all gardeners really know what he did

Sometimes in horticultural practice it happens that winter garlic has to be planted in the spring. The reasons here may be different: for example, in the fall for some reason you did not have garlic for planting, or you could not get to the site in time. Of course, planting winter garlic in spring is a risky business. If it did not pass vernalization, and the summer turned out to be hot, and at the same time, the ridge is very well filled with organic matter, there is no watering, it does n

According to the tradition that has developed in recent years, we share with the readers of the magazine the results of the past summer season. This time the summing up was delayed a little: too many cases accumulated on the site and at home

This onion is characterized by high yield, cold resistance; unlike onions, leeks are not affected by diseases and pests, they are distinguished by their versatility of use, as well as valuable dietary properties

For several years, I have been growing tomatoes in low greenhouses with the least labor input using the technology I have developed and get a good harvest. Everyone blushes, there are almost no greens

Probably every summer resident saw bags of synthetic fibers in which vegetables are sold: potatoes, beets, carrots, rutabagas, onions. Bags come in a variety of colors: red, yellow, orange, green, purple, dark blue … Usually, after use, sellers throw these mesh bags into the trash

Gone are the days when the most diverse carrots grew from seeds taken from the same bag: long and short, thin and thick, with a rounded tip and sharp. True, I must admit that it was all very sweet. Now we are offered such selected seeds that we can grow perfectly even, beautiful roots with a delightfully thin tail on a round tip. However, for this you need to try, because if she doesn't like something, she strives to bend

How often should you feed the plants? How to avoid nitrate build-up? If the plant lacks something … How to improve the mood of plants under adverse conditions

Here are the characteristics of some of the most productive varieties that give good results when grown in our gardens. All of them in different years were grown in the beds near the Palace of Peter I in Strelna

Determinant, undersized tomato varieties are suitable for this technology. At the planting site, I bring two scoops of sand, a teaspoon of superphosphate, a tablespoon of ash and a handful of dry sleeping tea. Mix thoroughly with the ground

We prepare our greenhouse for sowing in the fall. We remove the soil layer on a shovel bayonet, wash and disinfect the polycarbonate. We bring in manure, compost, dig up and level the surface of the ridge. And now the greenhouse is ready for spring

Poultry manure, like other types of manure, has a long history of effective fertilization. The benefits of its use on various soils are so great and indisputable that among gardeners and gardeners there is often an opinion about the validity of their dosage according to the principle "You cannot spoil porridge with oil

Alas, Russians are mostly indifferent to the daikon, but in vain: in addition to the undoubted dietary value, the daikon also has excellent productivity. And in addition, it is also a source of carbohydrates. And it is no coincidence that in Japan, for example, it takes not even the second, but the first place in terms of area among all vegetable crops

Spring garlic, summer garlic, non-shooting garlic - this is what gardeners call the garlic that we are used to planting in spring and digging up in autumn. But spring garlic can also be planted in autumn where the summer is very short and the spring garlic does not have time to ripen. Gardeners do not like him very much for his small teeth. And in my area near Vyborg, large bulbs of this garlic with excellent teeth are obtained in a hot summer when watering

I pass my love for delicious potatoes through the soil. To get good potatoes, you need to start with the soil, that is, create such conditions so that the variety does not lose starch, does not turn black during cooking, does not rot during storage, does not emit bad odors

Results of the past seasonThis season, a new greenhouse was built for tomatoes on our site, in which we planted completely new varieties of tomato for us. And it was necessary to build the greenhouse itself, and to build a high ridge in it in the spring