Purple muscaris
Juga repetans
Beautiful tulips
Spring anemonas
Potatoes in containers!
Mulched Brussel's sprouts
The overall view
sexta-feira, março 30, 2007
terça-feira, março 27, 2007
27 March
Have done mulching on more containers. Transplanted more turnips, cabbages, leeks, brussels sprouts and thymes. Plants have been growing pretty well. Tulips are blossoming. Tomatoes and peppers I brough these inside home. Potatoes are growing very fast (maybe its the effect of the millefolium - see companion planting) and in the carrots container, plants grow more in the center where there is a garlic (see companion planting). Another advise: dont overwater lettuce plants as I did (one has rot). Peas and chick peas are flowering and peas have already some fruit!! We've cut the natural soap, label these and plan doing plenty more with other scents. We also plan doing it with ashes instead of sodium lye which is very corrosive prior to mixing.
Companion planting is the trick of growing two crops together whereas one helps the other, in growing or/and in avoiding pest and disease. Examples include radish and lettuce, beans and radish, garlic and carrots, cabbage and hissop or oregano, marigolds and other aromatic herbs in most crops...). However, others such as crops from onion family and beans family don't go well in combination! Please check the web for more information.
Companion planting is the trick of growing two crops together whereas one helps the other, in growing or/and in avoiding pest and disease. Examples include radish and lettuce, beans and radish, garlic and carrots, cabbage and hissop or oregano, marigolds and other aromatic herbs in most crops...). However, others such as crops from onion family and beans family don't go well in combination! Please check the web for more information.
segunda-feira, março 26, 2007
One very useful website/database on the culture conditions for different crops and plants
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/Indices/index_ab.html
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/Indices/index_ab.html
quarta-feira, março 21, 2007
21 de Março - Primavera!
Feliz Primavera a todos!
Embora a temperatura tenha descido vertiginosamente as plantas continuam com um crescimento acelerado. As ervilhas estão em flor. Os grão quase. Os nabos e as cenouras começaram a crescer mais. Tenho também uma bela floreira de alfaces das quais já provei, outra de rúculas e endívias, um vaso de tomates e couves-de-bruxelas pequenas. Os agriões estranhamente começaram a florir (algumas plantas ao serem transplantadas aceleram em direcção á sua floração). Fiz também sabão natural, com aromas de sândalo, alfazema e madressilva (hmmmm..). Fiz a cobertura do solo em dois vasos (com folhas secas até 3cm de espessura) e coloquei pratos em vários e efectivamente reduz as perdas de água.
Nas experiências de agricultura biodinâmica, rabanetes que foram semeados na mesma semana com a lua nos signos de diferentes elementos, já há diferenças notórias. Os rabanetes terra e depois água são os maiores bolbos (e os terra até foram os últimos a ser semeados, cinco dias depois dos de ar). Os rabanetes ar são os que possuem folhas e maiores e com formato bem mais recortado que os restantes. Os rabanetes fogo aparentam estar maior quantidade de folhas amareladas que os restantes. Todos foram semeados em condições idênticas (mesmo vaso, solo, luz e rega). Fotos em breve.
Happy Spring to all!
Despite the weather has cooled significantly plants continue to grow well and fast. Peas and chick peas are flowering. Turnips and carrots grow now faster. There is a flat container with pretty lettuce which I have tasted already! A tomato pot and some bruxels sprouts. Strangely, the cress is also flowering (sometimes transplants cause the plant to do so). I also have made some natural soap with sandalwood, lavander and honeysuckle scents. I have mulched the soil in some containers (with dried tree leaves up to 3cm) and put dishes on their bottom; indeed it's keeping them more humid.
In the first biodynamic agriculture experiments, radish were seeded during the same week on different moon days, when moon was passing on signs of different elements. There are already clear differences. Radish earth and then earth have the bigger bulbs (even when earth ones were the last to be seeded during that week). Radish air have the biggest leaves and with more strange shapes than the others. Radish fire have more yellowish leaves than the others. All were cultivated with similar conditions (same soil, pots, light and water). Photos in soon.
Como era dia da Árvore, um ácer foi plantado
A maple tree was planted on Tree day
Embora a temperatura tenha descido vertiginosamente as plantas continuam com um crescimento acelerado. As ervilhas estão em flor. Os grão quase. Os nabos e as cenouras começaram a crescer mais. Tenho também uma bela floreira de alfaces das quais já provei, outra de rúculas e endívias, um vaso de tomates e couves-de-bruxelas pequenas. Os agriões estranhamente começaram a florir (algumas plantas ao serem transplantadas aceleram em direcção á sua floração). Fiz também sabão natural, com aromas de sândalo, alfazema e madressilva (hmmmm..). Fiz a cobertura do solo em dois vasos (com folhas secas até 3cm de espessura) e coloquei pratos em vários e efectivamente reduz as perdas de água.
Nas experiências de agricultura biodinâmica, rabanetes que foram semeados na mesma semana com a lua nos signos de diferentes elementos, já há diferenças notórias. Os rabanetes terra e depois água são os maiores bolbos (e os terra até foram os últimos a ser semeados, cinco dias depois dos de ar). Os rabanetes ar são os que possuem folhas e maiores e com formato bem mais recortado que os restantes. Os rabanetes fogo aparentam estar maior quantidade de folhas amareladas que os restantes. Todos foram semeados em condições idênticas (mesmo vaso, solo, luz e rega). Fotos em breve.
Happy Spring to all!
Despite the weather has cooled significantly plants continue to grow well and fast. Peas and chick peas are flowering. Turnips and carrots grow now faster. There is a flat container with pretty lettuce which I have tasted already! A tomato pot and some bruxels sprouts. Strangely, the cress is also flowering (sometimes transplants cause the plant to do so). I also have made some natural soap with sandalwood, lavander and honeysuckle scents. I have mulched the soil in some containers (with dried tree leaves up to 3cm) and put dishes on their bottom; indeed it's keeping them more humid.
In the first biodynamic agriculture experiments, radish were seeded during the same week on different moon days, when moon was passing on signs of different elements. There are already clear differences. Radish earth and then earth have the bigger bulbs (even when earth ones were the last to be seeded during that week). Radish air have the biggest leaves and with more strange shapes than the others. Radish fire have more yellowish leaves than the others. All were cultivated with similar conditions (same soil, pots, light and water). Photos in soon.
Como era dia da Árvore, um ácer foi plantado
A maple tree was planted on Tree day
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