The garden of a lazy we occasionally.

[Did67]

... from time to time in "hats" on resistant Adventists, the buttercup or dandelion, and the heat stroke calms them!
It can be a good solution to quickly calm refractory corners, with a good distribution the heat stroke spent.
Olivier.

That one, I hadn't thought of it !!!

[This is a perfect illustration of the fact that nothing is ever just good or just bad; what is bad here at the moment t, can become very good elsewhere, in other circumstances - you demonstrate it perfectly!]

[Christophe]

You can easily "customize" this to make it an insect hotel AND, better yet, a pipistrelle (our little bats) nesting box.

To make a pipistrelle nesting box, you nail two roof slats vertically, on the upper part of your hut, for example over a meter in length. And you clad in wood. Pipistrelles love these "slits" the exact width of a roof batten. You close at the top, but not at the bottom. At home, because of "faults" in my grids to ensure air circulation behind the siding, they squat the space between the cladding and the wall ...

Elsewhere, you nail anarchically falling planks and slots will make refuges for insects ...

As for the soil, "cleanliness" (exterior) is the enemy of living things ...

Well, my red cedar does not require any treatment.

I would like to build a cabin in Chauves-Souris, I see that you have experience in this area Didier, can you tell us a little about it here: gardening / build-and-a-house-hotel-a-bat-t15698.html ?

[olivier75]

Slugs and mustard.

To answer to be silly, I redo a history of the fishpond vegetable garden and of this not really premeditated sequel which ends with "slugs prefer mustard!"

On April 23 to be sure of occupying the land that has just been lent to me if I don't have time, I sow all the white mustard vegetable garden on the fly, except 3 lines barely sown, corn, small peas and potatoes. I collect a mixture of brambles, nettles and moss in the vegetable garden abandoned nearby to cover a minimum of fear of the lack of water!

Finally, being there for a few days, my parents brought me dahlia and white onion, I put some young trees in the nursery, transplanted slightly small beets, the test of Pdt germ and cabbage given by a friend.

Back on May 19, it grows a little, the vegetable garden is filled with cucurbits, beans in pots. the small mustard plants are uprooted and left on the spot, there is a small spreading of feramol at the recommended dose

[olivier75]

On June 7, mustard takes its place ....

It’s a little bit on the approach .. but everything is there.

and I add a little, the uprooting of the mustard leaves a mashed soil, very little weed, small shoots around the plants in the light, thistles and bindweed. the uprooted plants are placed on the semi.

[olivier75]

And yet, no regular collection, 20aine can be thrown into the river, a single pass of feramol, no surveillance and they were there !!!

A pumpkin foot eaten, its substitute too, which will eventually be able to get by ... the most in the shade near large grasses.

Following the return of this weekend, I can go there often at the moment.

Olivier

[Did67]

In any case, it is much more conclusive than my test of cultivation under the cover of weeds, which turned into a disaster!

[olivier75]

There are some but all small and only in the light, except cardoons and bindweed, the mustard is easy to tear off and the root system leaves a perfect soil. A mixture will still be better, and especially as soon as I can cover! ! In the meantime, it works and it helps me to move forward in my cross system between the crop boards and the hay.
I can still see that the soil, however alluvial and black ideal for the gardener, is not comparable with the phenoculture 2nd year of the orchard, with a soil armored with worms, wet to no longer water the plantation (in a bucket), I expect a big difference this summer.

Olivier

[Adrien (ex-nico239)]

Heard earlier on France 5 in the show (to review) on the people of the fields in the debate an organic farmer who said that since he no longer fought against slugs he had none ... but he did not give more details but I thought of you.

[Did67]

Like what, the "alive" is a complex system ...

I did not fight for years, and there, it is by 2 to 3 cm in the bottom of a bucket that I harvested them for a fortnight ... Now, it settles, but I I still caught at least 25 "big cows" last night, thanks to my bait plants (wild lettuce, sow thistle, leftover "salads" scattered in strategic places) ...

The living is a complex system, where something can "go haywire" without knowing it of its own accord. To my visitors, to illustrate this, I told that one can imagine that in the district, a neighbor was not very careful on the fence of his henhouse ... The foxes had an easier prey than the hedgehogs. .. And here is not that he changes his mind, remakes his fence. The hungry foxes fall back on the hedgehogs ... And here I am invaded by slugs ... It is of course more complicated! It is just the principle of "food webs" (chains of food, one eating the other).

[to be chafoin]

I sow all the white mustard vegetable garden on the fly, except 3 lines barely sown, corn, peas and potatoes.

We do not see in the photos what ultimately gave these seedlings: not out?