lazy gardener in Loire Atlantique

[phil53]

Yes Didier, these tomatoes are particularly well exposed, sheltered from the wind but not rain, they enjoy the effect of the wall not far.

[Did67]

I think these are "determining factors".

If I were brave, I would build a Trombe wall (Monsieur Trombe - sorry, Professor Felix Trombe), with bricks in compacted / stabilized earth, under a transparent roof that would extend in a cap to house a row of tomatoes; all oriented East-West ...

Having become too lazy, I deliver the "tip" to young people who are full of enthusiasm!

[jpg43]

Didier.
Hello, this type of wall exists well before the principle of Trombe wall (which accumulates heat behind a glass wall exposed to the sun) it is the walls of peach Montreuil for example that exist in other regions elsewhere. In Montreuil there were up to 400km of walls and they remain on a few hectares more or less rehabilitated. Fruit trees, especially peaches, were grown in espaliers. It is protected from frost or hail by tarpaulins.

The principle remains the same in orangeries, vegetable crops in teens against a wall that have certainly inspired cultures on mounds, vine trellised beyond the altitudes conducive to its culture etc.

Congratulations and thank you for all these articles, my planks phenocultures wait for spring.
JP

[Did67]

Yes Yes.

Or in the "king's garden" in Versailles!

Or at Frederick II's "Sanssouci" castle in Potsdam.

For those who would visit these places. Just know what's the point!

[Well, it seems to me that kings had ways that I do not have !!!!]

[phil53]

In addition to slugs, I suspect little centipedes eating cabbages.
This afternoon, I found lots of mice holes in the hay I put in weeks ago.
Will tomatoes and cucurbits not interest them.
In any case damn for red beets, carrots celery

[Stef72]

good luck for your cabbages, by my home is the meager foot of Brussels sprouts that are attacked by cabbage cabbage

[phil53]

Yesterday I put fern around my tiny sprouts hoping to defend them against slugs.
It is a kind of fern that grows in tuft like some ornamental ferns, not common ferns like in the woods.
That's what I had under the but, I added it over the hay layer.
The smell is similar to that of the common fern, we'll see if it's effective, business to follow.

[phil53]

The test with ferns as slug repellent inconclusive.
I found days after slugs close to a cabbage, very much alive.
Maybe they do not eat it but in any case it does not bother them.
I'm going to do a test with young shoots when there is but I feel that it is not this plant that will get rid of slugs.

[Did67]

Can you photograph the slugs you have?

I think we keep saying "slugs" as if there were only one species, when there are dozens. It does not seem impossible to me that the behavior of species (especially food) could be very different. It is even almost certain.

I observed that my marigolds (Tagetes), which I had put for that, strongly attracted large orange slugs (I had found a sprawling on one foot in the middle of the day). That's what I remembered from my parents, where we often had problems. But my little whitish snails, which this year, have a little annoyed me, I wanted to attract outside the board where I sowed carrots, I found next to salads or even in furrows and they ignored them ... Not one, but not one on a carnation of India!

I think you have to be more specific than saying "this works with slugs" or "this doesn't work"!

[phil53]

Totally agree with you.
On the field in question I have 4 slug sorts.
1 - Small white and light gray slugs easy to crush
2 - Small even very small black slugs
3 - Small dark gray slugs with yellowish elastic feet like a barnacle.
4 -More rarely large orange slugs
In the garden it is 1 and 3 that I dislodged near the cabbage.