In recent years, growing plants in raised beds has become increasingly popular. It is convenient, aesthetically pleasing, and allows for earlier harvests. However, it is important to remember that caring for garden crops in this case has some specific features...
Sweet (Bulgarian) peppers need fertilizing at all stages of vegetation, including during fruiting. Fertilizers applied during this period improve the taste of the fruit, accelerate its ripening and increase its shelf life...
Eggplants are big fans of "eating". Only with good and timely nutrition can you expect a bountiful harvest of fruits from them. However, not everyone knows how many times per season you need to apply fertilizers for eggplants, what and how to feed them...
Growing tall tomato varieties and hybrids in open ground without staking is possible, but difficult – it is more practical to plant them in a greenhouse and train them vertically. It is unlikely that you will be able to harvest a rich and healthy crop from vines lying on the ground. Even low-growing bushes often need support...
Although the main sowing season is mostly over by June, it is still too early to relax. If there is free space in the garden beds or they have been cleared after harvesting early crops, they should not be left empty...
In addition to regular watering, loosening, hilling, pinching, protection from possible cold snaps, and prevention of diseases and pests, at the end of spring and the beginning of summer it is important not to forget about such a significant procedure as feeding plants...
You rarely visit your summer cottage, your plot does not have enough water, or perhaps you plan to be away on vacation? All these circumstances will affect the choice of crops that you can grow and harvest...
Tulips are a genus of perennial herbaceous bulbous plants of the Liliaceae family, beloved by many gardeners, which includes more than 80 species in modern taxonomies. And the continuously updated world fund of commercially cultivated tulips alone today has more than 1800 varieties and forms!..
Each summer resident has his own way to make the plot the most original. Someone relies on exotic plants that need to be watched like a hawk, while someone prefers to use familiar flowers for decoration that do not require special conditions...
Napa cabbage can be sown with almost equal success both in spring and in mid-summer. An excellent solution is not to choose between spring and summer sowing, but to do both. In this case, you will be able to include a healthy vegetable in your diet much more often...