How to water?

It is not enough to soak up the water to land well watered plantations. If you did not, here are some tips that will be useful to the gardener that you are ...

You need ...

• A shower head to break the jet,
• A sufficiently long hose,
• A bowl,
• A drip irrigation,
• A material for mulch.

Different techniques

The sprinkler with sprinkler plugged directly into the hose, sprinklers static, rotating or oscillating. These irrigation systems have the advantage of being automated.

Watering drip water which does the base of the plants with a minimum of loss.

Watering by immersion is to immerse the rootball of the plant. This technique is particularly suited to potted plants.

Watering runoff. Water is supplied to the plants by a piping system or gutters placed on the ground.

Some basic principles
It is better to water copiously ground and slightly less often and often.
Try using rainwater.
In times of drought, water early in the morning or late in the day. The sun burns the leaves when there is water above.
Bassinez regularly evergreens (conifers and shrubs).
Sprinkle generously all new planting during the first year. We must give him time to make roots.
Avoid too powerful jets tamp and cure the earth.
Make bowls around the trunks of trees to retain water.
Sandy soils are light and watering more often and less abundantly than clay soils and compact.

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Repair a lawn from a seedling

Often, holes or yellow patches appear on a lawn. If these areas are small, need to redo the entire lawn, a patch will be enough to restore it to its beauty ...

period

In the autumn to enjoy the last heat and rain. Non rainy weather.

You need ...

• A rake
• A spade
• The grass seed, fertilizer • A substantive
• The soil,
• A roll of 20 kg.

Before you begin

Prepare your seeds if possible using the same mixture as the lawn in place to avoid differences in color and growth.

How to proceed?
1)With a rake, scrape the damaged area to remove the yellowed grass.
2)With a spade, turn the earth 15-20 cm to aerate the soil.
3)Use this operation to incorporate a basic fertilizer "special turf."
4)Break the clods.
5)Remove the stones.
6)Take the rake and scratch the ground to level it.
7)Tamp with the back of the rack if the surface is damaged small, otherwise, use a roll of 20 kg.
8)Sow seeds on the fly.
9)Crumble the soil over the seeds.
10)Tamp again.
11)Water generously and keep the soil moist until the close if not raining.

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What to do with garden waste?

Comment ramasser et que faire des déchets du jardin ? Les jeter, les brûler ou les recycler dans un composteur ? Cette dernière solution est incontestablement la plus écologique et la plus profitable pour votre jardin...

 

period

In the autumn especially.

You need ...

• Garbage bags,
• paper bags,
• A wheelbarrow
• A garden cart.
Pick up litter

Trash bags
Trash bags will help you get rid of your waste as you pickup. They are lightweight, easy to handle and less bulky than a wheelbarrow. Use thick and strong bags because they will quickly weigh a certain weight. Think adapt their waste volume. They will be more dense and heavy (freshly cut grass for example), plus the bag is small.

Paper bags
If you are using your waste to make compost, prefer biodegradable paper bags. You throw directly into your composter.

Reinforced polyethylene bags
There are commercially reinforced polyethylene bags that you can reuse. Solid and equipped with handles, they are very convenient ...

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The dangers of garden

Beware of gardening tools that we often hang out here and there, when you have children. Do you know that this type of accident is the most common in USA.

Obviously, we think the mower, but even a simple stool can become dangerous. Turn your back for five minutes and you can be sure that your children have tried to climb. And yes, it is mimicry, making like dad, but it can end badly.

But accidents do happen to good children. Which has not kept its hedge trimmer with one hand to ward off the other branches?

This data is therefore intended to recall these few evidences:

• Think disconnect all electrical equipment when you are away even for a moment. This concerns the hedge trimmers, chain saws, drills, and of course the mower.
• Never put your hand under the mower, or even to remove the foot of the grass blade block, even if it is stopped.
• Do not leave garden tools such as spade, rake dragged against a wall, keep them systematically.
• Keep on top of your closet all small tools as sharp as knives, secateurs, shears, ..
• Also place at the right height all hazardous products such as gasoline, alcohol, white spirit, phytosanitaies products ...
• Wear gloves and safety glasses when using a grinder because pieces can be thrown violently through the opening.
• Even the wheelbarrow can become dangerous when used for shopping.
• Keep your hedge trimmer with both hands and not to release the other branches to ward example. This is a classic accident.
• Do not drag extension cords. The shock or electrocution frequently.
• Remember vaccination against tetanus must be renewed regularly.
• Attention to the drowning of smaller ones that can drop into your pelvis. Do not let the younger unattended around a corner water. The same applies to swimming pools, access must be protected by a self-closing gate and have a height of at least 1.20m.
• Also beware of poisoning following ingestion of fruits or leaves toxic: the case of fruit holly, leaf prints, rhododendron or oleander. Wash your hands after handling plants.
• Use treatment products on your plants day or there is no wind .

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How to create a fragrant bouquet!

What's better than a beautiful fragrant bouquet to embalm the interiors especially when done yourself? In April, we continue to celebrate the arrival of spring with flowers and sweet scents scented foliage.

The summer season offers us new scented flowers such as daffodils, hyacinths, or the Lilac Irises but still enjoy flowers available all year round and captivating fragrances with Roses, Lilies, Freesias the ... What do vary the pleasure throughout the season! And to add a little more bouquet: a touch of musk, spicy or fresh scent, consider using scented foliage like Mint, Thyme, Eucalyptus ... Do not hesitate to mix garden flowers (or flower) and wildflowers for a more original composition!

The bouquet presented simple composition, can be decorated with a different foliage and other fragrant flowers as an individual choice.

Composition of fragrant bouquet

10 Aqua Roses bouquet for a short well-rounded
10 Branches of holly Small
10 White Freesias


Realization of fragrant bouquet

The realization of this bouquet uses the technique of the spiral, it creates a beautiful bouquet with a high volume and good stability. The "trick" is the movement that you make to compose the bouquet.

As the name suggests, you will carry spiral: Start with the first tilt Rose in your hand, center to the attachment point (located about 1/3 of the length of the flower), wrap lightly foliage then add 4 Freesias around, surround them with small holly, add 4 Roses and so on until the bouquet.

Be careful never to leave the stems cross! Bind all with raffia and cut the stems diagonally before placing them in a vase of fresh water (with a nutrient solution for flowers or a spoonful of powdered sugar).

This bouquet of delicate flowers require special attention if we want to keep bright and fresh for long. Of course, remember to cut the stems diagonally and change the water regularly. And do not forget to remove all sources of heat, windows and appliances including (although it very pretty close to the TV), you would reduce considerably the life!

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Plants on the walls

Appeared in the mid-90s, the concept of green wall created by Patrick Blanc Dr state of Science at the University Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS researcher, is a revolution in the world of architecture and garden . Its success has never waned since its inception and is available today in the indoor version with pictures plants.

Assuming that plants know happen to land when they can find nutrients in sufficient quantity, this revolutionary technique allows revegetate any vertical surface while avoiding the problems of weight and size due to substrate, the ground being replaced by water containing fertilizers.

A support mounted on a frame including a irrigation water and a thin layer of substrate will be enriched directly fixed on the wall. Plants selected according to very specific features of adaptation to their future environment will be added gradually and colonize space.

The concept finds its real attraction in urban areas where horizontal space is often limited, it finally became possible to dress the walls by exploiting their verticality. Finished grisaille, up to nature! And the walls of shopping malls become real jungles, the facades of buildings as tableaux vivants Branly on the docks, or behind the BHV ... This extends globally in more and more cities where the plant wall itself as a lifestyle.

At night, the lighting can model shapes, reliefs, bringing a touch of magic to the whole.

Another advantage: the green wall is both a thermal and sound insulation.

Inside, additional lighting ensures optimum growth. Watering and fertilization are automated to reduce maintenance, pump system can be combined to create a waterfall cascading down the entire wall to a pool that recycle water in a closed circuit, offering a magnificent setting.


The concept is adaptable as well as outdoors, to make frescoes or unlimited dimensional plant walls, indoor use only where you can either dress up a wall or just install an array of small plant to ward off a wall well exposed.

Plant walls large spans will be implemented by professionals, about the mural, its maintenance and development remain accessible to all.

Two solutions exist in this area: the first is to grow plants in a natural substrate fed cotton wicks ensure that in each case the water needs. Water tank for this purpose must be filled once a week.

The second system involves rooting plants in sphagnum moss used by a small fence. This substrate consists of moss is very healthy, rich in trace elements and antibacterial. Plants can be selected and changed according to the needs and tastes without worry.

Originality, space saving aesthetics: plants on the walls have a bright future ahead of them!

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A flowery garden all winter

The winter blues can not be a fatality! Every good gardener knows many plants will compensate. Colorful flowering shrubs, perennials, biennials and bulbs, do not hesitate to plant the plants that you bring color and gaiety.

Of climbing all dapper

It is no longer honeysuckle, perfect for quickly fill a wall, this plant carefree delight you with its sweet fragrance. Choose the species' fragrantissima "commonly called winter honeysuckle that produces a multitude of small cream-colored flowers December to March.
Winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) can also be trellised on a trellis. Its small bright yellow petals appear before the leaves on the branches bare. Unlike other scented jasmine flowers are odorless powerful. If it is sunny bloom from December to March.
Some are very early and clematis bloom in February; This is the case of Clematis cirrhosa in bronze tinted foliage that offers pale yellow or cream flowers sometimes tinged with light red buttons.
Shrubs covered with flowers

Very elegant, camellias are covered with flowers for many months, to stagger the blooms. The genus includes over 250 species, as saying that the choice is vast. The camellia "Bonanza" referring to those big red flowers peony bloom from October to February. Larger reticulata some Camellias will be used in the background of massive, they can reach 4 meters in height. The variety "Australia" is very strong and offers salmon pink flowers in February. Same for Camellias sasanqua variety whose Mineno-yuki open the ball blooms in October with its small white flowers.

If Camellias grow well in your garden is that your soil is acid! Take the opportunity to plant heather which form mats white, pink or purple in the heart of winter. Again, there are many varieties ... Enter your decor to ensure continuous flowering from November to May
Undisputed star of the garden in winter, Mahonia flowers for a long period. At the top of the shrub prickly foliage appear spectacular clusters of bright yellow flowers. Its scent is reminiscent of muguet. Plant several varieties to stagger the blooms from December to April.
For its enchanting fragrance with notes of slightly spicy hyacinth plant near the house a Daphne odora. Flower color may vary depending on the species from pure white to deep purple. Very original and uncommon in our gardens, this plant deserves to be better known!
Finish with a classic: the viburnum. Flowering through the winter safely. This is an easy plant that grows alone. Choose hybrid "bodnantense" for its delicate fragrance and subtle bloom.

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