lazy gardener in Loire Atlantique

[Did67]

It's not "that dangerous", but it's not completely harmless ...

Cooking greatly attenuates this molecule ...

But these gluco-alacaloids (green pdt, black nightshade - a weed of the family of Solanaceae, green eggplants, green tomatoes - so varieties that blush when they are ripe yet unripe) have a fairly high toxicity:

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http://www.avogel.ch/fr/encyclopaedie-p ... getaux.php

[phil53]

Zucchini with still berries

My last harvest from my garden in the squat. The zucchini is small but the plants have powdery mildew.
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I tried late beans but at first it was too dry and now they have the rain but the heat must be lacking
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But compare to my neighbors organic boho it's not so bad
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My neighbors have sown spinach. Is this the season?
Will they produce before winter?

[phil53]

My neighbors' tomatoes. The feet are cut, I did not do it at home, before I did.
Is it useful?
They have fewer tomatoes than me but started harvesting before me. Their feet seem rickety compared to mine.
We see that weeds are much more present than at home thanks to Didier's technique

[Did67]

It's still a good start, for a very complicated year for everyone (I was Friday at one of the most experienced biodynamic market gardeners in Alsace, who cultivates 30 or 40 ha in biodynamics, which will only harvest around 50 % of what it usually harvests, which has failed completely on some crops).

Your ground seems to me of "poor tendency" ... The successive contributions of rich organic matter (hay) will inevitably "straighten" the fertility, in a natural and progressive way ... And it will always be necessary to hope that worms are install (not the wankers!).

answers:

a) yes, there are varieties of winter spinach, which even spend the winter here ...

b) I prune my tomatoes to avoid too much "green mass" and therefore the ambient humidity which "concentrates" in too dense foliage, which favors mildew ... I "mount" them in general on 3 sprigs. .. And I clear the bottom a bit around mid-August; it is from there, with the condensations, that mildew usually starts ...

I have a nice "second harvest", on plants that I thought died in August (I had even torn off one line out of the three!).

c) yes, the cucurbits will quickly "finish", with the mildew which ratiboise them ... Normal. No need to fight ... Zucchini, melons, etc., it is no longer the siason! And squash, pumpkin, you have to "bring in" ...

[phil53]

News from the pot tomato base attacked by bedbugs

Potted tomato

Tomatoes on which we see the bites, I did not know that the bedbugs ate fruit. Then in section we notice that the flesh is thin. Tomato with less taste and an unpleasant texture.

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[phil53]

The tomato base that I planted in my composter. The tomatoes are beautiful, some have been attacked by caterpillars. I harvested a dozen on the foot despite a late start and bad weather

Tomato stalk in the composter

No size either
Not very well exposed either because the sun does not arrive before the middle of the afternoon at this time

[Did67]

I never paid attention to the bedbugs on the tomatoes either.

There is this as info: http://ephytia.inra.fr/fr/C/5154/Tomate-Punaises

[Did67]

Is this where we talked about winter lettuces ???

I found the two "Kokopelli" varieties that I will try:

- "Bouguignonne" winter head lettuce: "large rounded, pale green apples ..."
- "Baquieu" winter head lettuce: "one of the most rustic and early ... Small, very red apples ... It could be a very old German variety" Erstling "..."

Sowing is recommended in the nursery, in August / September. I will try in place (lines) now ...

[phil53]

Yesterday, at night, I saw a spider which captured a caterpillar which was eating a cabbage leaf.
It seems logical but it is the first time that I see it.

[Did67]

Well seen !!!!!

I would not have thought either, spontaneously, of spiders as auxiliaries in the fight against caterpillars ... Spontaneously, one thinks "web", therefore "flying insects" ... However spiders, there are heaps of them. 'cash !!!

It is a good example of the interest of "biodiversity". So to maintain it and respect it ...