Tulips care

Tulips care

Aug

28

At home with Jamie Oliver

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At home with Jamie OliverI love to watch Jamie Oliver, not for his cooking skills or smart remarks like: "if you cook the lemon long enough, it will become sweet", which stupid me even tried out just to get some good old medieval knowledge; you cannot turn led into gold, nor lemon into sugar…

I follow his latest series "at home with Jamie Oliver", again not because of the Jamie Oliver recipes but because Jamie Oliver is promoting organic gardening! I don’t know why his organic farmer friend still looks as if he is living in the sixties, but I do love their garden. I just get at ease looking at vegetables that are grown organically. Why? Because in stead of using pesticides, there will be lots of beautiful flowers attracting insects away from the vegetables.

Just strange that after all this good organic examples, Jamie has to take a gun and start shooting organic lettuce… such a waste of good healthy food! It doesn’t take much to make a healthy delicious soup out of fresh organic lettuce Jamie!

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Aug

24

2 reasons why watering plants is important

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I can hear you say: hello, plants need water so I need to water them: a no-brainer.
True, but that’s only half of the story, especially in summer.

You need to make sure you water your plants deeply! If the water is only to be found on the surface, your plant’s roots will also only grow on the surface. The latter becomes a problem in hot summer days when these roots can burn because of the heat and your plant hasn’t got deeper roots to backup the loss of the surface roots.

So just don’t water your plants a bit: make sure the soil gets wet quite deep!

That’s why I love my planter boxes and especially my elevated flower fields and elevated vegetable fields: as long as the walkways in my elevated fields are moist, that means that the roots on the elevated fields are rooting deep and safe from being burnt.

Aug

22

Edible Flowers

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I was reading a post about edible flowers where they recommend Hibiscus flowers in your salad. Now that rings a bell as I have seen Hibiscus Tea in he shops already.

tropaeolum majusMy most favorite edible flowers are Indian Cress (Tropaeolum Majus – Garden Nasturtium).

I grow the climbing cultivars of Garden Nasturtium after the harvest of peas to keep the land free of weeds. Garden Nasturtium grows very fast but it freezes at the end of the season, so it’s quite easy to remove all the rotten leaves the next spring.

I also grow bush Indian Cress in between my beans, as the Indian Cress attracts aphids, so no need to use pesticides on my other vegetables!

I love to eat the flowers of Indian Cress in a salad and being a cookingdiva myself: I do make a nice cress soup out of the leaves. :-)

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