Peppers, problems with the freeze

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The peppers start well, but cold nights stopped their growth. Now, with the days beginning to be warm while Summer is arriving, we hope that peppers awake and begin to develop strongly. As you can see the leaves are shriveled and with a withered aspect due to the cold.

Sowing pumpkins

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Pumpkin is a fruit very important, especially for its nutrition values and by its diversity inclusion in meals. The pumpkin seeds are considered protein supplements.

Most soils can be used for growing pumpkins, if properly prepared. The way the soil is dug, its fertilization, the sowing, the weeding, the watering and the area of ​the ​land required for the pumpkins to develop and expand themselves are important to have the expected good results.

Broad beans: end of the harvest

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The beans came close to a month to be taken and 90% went to the freezer to be consumed throughout the year. The beans are a vegetable that does not require great care in their development. In the end there are only the branches that will be buried to enrich the soil.

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Broad beans best fixing nitrogen plant

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Broad beans is the best fixing plant of nitrogen because it fixes the nitrogen from air into their roots. Plants need nitrogen and much of them are not that really good nitrogen fixing plants, so the farmer needs to give nitrogen to their roots. You will enrich the soil it you bury the board beans plant after the harvest to recover the levels of nitrogen. Culture after culture the soil will need more nitrogen so it is better if we rotate between a culture of board beans and a culture of plants which needs much nitrogen. You will enrich the soil and it will thank you for that.

Planting lettuce

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The planting of lettuce can be done throughout the year. Its seeds, because they are too small, can be mixed with fine sand and spread best if sowing in beds.

The germination takes 4 to 6 days. The lettuce prefers sandy-clay soils, rich in organic matter. When they are 6 to 8 leaves and 8 to 10 cm, they must be transferes to well fertilized plots, so that the plant keep the neck above the ground and distance between plants of 30 cm. Only the seedlings more developed, strong and healthy should be planted . Another important is that we must be careful is to plant the seedlings with roots tangled or bent and they should not be planted too deep.

The fertilization of the beds can be made ​​only with organic fertilizer, which is made with animal manure. When the bed is ready, we put a layer of manure evenly distributed over the surface, on the basis of 20 liters per square meter, spread it well and mix it at the surface layer of the soil, leaving her in planting conditions. To prevent the lowering of the land due to irrigation and rain, the soil should be slightly compressed, avoiding the vegetables from having their roots out of the ground.

The crop must be be cleaned, watered and irrigated as needed. All weeds that grow between the vegetables should be torn with their roots, with one hand or a hoe. This is necessary because they compete with the planting, stealing nutrients from the fertilizer and shading, avoiding vegetables receiving the amount of sun required.

Organic fertilizer

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The soil organic matter results mainly from vegetable waste, although the animal remains contribute significantly in its composition. Thus cattle, microorganisms from the terrain, insects and man himself, directly or indirectly, participate in the decomposition of plant residues and their distribution through the layers of soil. For this and other reasons, we find plots with different levels of organic matter. These levels reach the maximum in peaty soils and down to the minimum value in desert soils. Manure is what is most precious on a farm.

Our garden is very well fed with organic fertilizer, most of it is manure. It is bought always in the same place because we trust on that person. It is important that the manure is of good quality to avoid diseases and have a good harvest. It comes always with many earthworms which is very good for your soil, a soil with earthworms means it has life and it breaths. Only one thing the seller told us, is that there are some plant roots inside the manure which are bad for the soil. That is because that kind of plant roots are not digested by the animals. To solve that problem, while we distribute the manure on the garden we are checking for the roots and we take them off and leave it in the garbage because it's not useful even for waste compound.