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Re: New Sloth Garden (33)




by Did67 » 14/05/18, 18:40

Glus soil, it reminds me of the tapestry glue: wet, it's sticky; dry, it's hard !!!
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Re: New Sloth Garden (33)




by izentrop » 14/05/18, 19:52

The fungus looks a lot like the end of life coprin Image edible young http://sousmagloriette.canalblog.com/ar ... 74359.html

Coprin practically on as specified by Did 67, remains to know which having seen the young mushroom http://www.champigaume.be/Coprins.5.html
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by Maguie70 » 13/06/18, 18:12

very curious
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Re: New Sloth Garden (33)




by Jihele33 » 30/09/18, 17:31

Some news and feedback from my garden in Gironde near Bordeaux.
A very hot season during which I have (voluntarily) not or very little watered ...
Result: Very good for me, enough yield for my personal consumption and the observation that some vegetables or fruits are very well satisfied with a small amount of water ... For example yellow beets (Gold), potatoes , eggplant and tomatoes too (fruits less fat but more fragrant).
In short a first year of vegetable garden in lazy mode very positive.

Another positive point is the RARÉFACTION DU LISERON.
Originally it proliferated and I battled for hours against him ...
This season, my method has been more ... reasoned.
1 - First hay: very effective to slow its exit towards the light
2 - Select the fruits and vegetables that make it competitive and do not like it too close. according to my observations: zucchini, potatoes, aubergines, potimaron, beets and it worked well.
3 - Creating competition: I sowed white mustard. I let wild grasses and other hedgey plants break into places that did not bother me instead of systematically weeding. result: the bindweed does not like at all ...
4 - I have strategically placed nematocid marigolds https://kokopelli-semences.fr/fr/p/F028 ... nematocide / the bindweed that came to leave nearby has become an end and rikiki before disappearing ...
5 - I was inspired by the experience gathered from a specialist in the fight against bamboo (tracer). He explained to me that the fact of martyring the tracing ends of the bamboo coming out of the ground (with products, fire or mechanically) with the aim of destroying it did not work and on the contrary forced him to project much further by increasing its territory and strength ...
So I stop wanting to dig deep and extract the roots of bindweed at all costs (Last year with this method it came out each time even stronger ...) by contenting myself this year with removing what just exceeded soil ... Well, it works (for now). The regrowths take a very long time to come back and are never very alive ...

Result with all these methods I have reduced (to sight nose) of 80% proliferation of bindweed on the garden plot. It is almost invisible today ... and does not bother me anymore.

As a bonus some images of my eggplant and my potatoes just harvested (I left many small for next year).
I had just positioned them under the hay layer by making a small hole in it and covering them with a handful of soil ... Very good result and no need to raise, no maintenance. the harvest is easy just lift the hay ... It also allows easy control of the maturity of the plants ...
See you soon...
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Re: New Sloth Garden (33)




by Did67 » 01/10/18, 10:27

That's good news!

[And, for me, reassuring: those who have read me for a long time know that there is always a touch of doubt that inhabits me and that I feel pained when some who had launched themselves under my guidance, fail and regret.]

For bindweed, if it is also talkative and climbs along anything and everything, it is because it wants to go to the light! As soon as he is dominated, he is less clever and makes himself very small! All that remains is to shoot, in passing, on an protruding spin. And here it is "bonzaized". And quite harmless. Without disappearing: I have had a few spots for half a dozen years - without real damage. But without it disappearing!

This can serve as a lesson: gardeners are obsessed with their "enemies". And basically, except for what THEM planted, everything is enemy. And I pull out my gun ...

These are not the "pests" that must be tracked down. They are part of the living. Often, they have qualities that we want to ignore (otherwise, we would have scruples to shoot them). It is their damage that must be limited. It is quite another thing. Let us be "sharing": "will I have enough left ??? That is the right question. Why attack these few aphids whose damage is not quantifiable ??? They feed the larvae of ladybugs which I would be happy about later, maybe take a picture. And why not make a poster for the toilet or the living room? This plantain does not "compete" with my leeks. It is mycorrhizal and nourishes the mycorrhizal fungi which are feeding the leek, finding water or phosphorus ... I can eat it. I can make cough syrup out of it ...

We absolutely have to train our mind, absolutely re-educate our reflexes to first think about "what damage?" before asking the question whether to intervene (including with "organic" products, which are not always harmless - they are even rarely!).
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Re: New Sloth Garden (33)




by phil53 » 01/10/18, 11:01

I think that's the most important concept you've made me discover. To tolerate, to coexist without absolutely wanting to eradicate.
Already there is less stress and in the end we realize that despite and / or through weeds we have good vegetables.
For the bindweed for me it remains very active and after 3 years it is very far from becoming bonsai
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Re: New Sloth Garden (33)




by Did67 » 01/10/18, 14:44

I think you have the "big bad bindweed": the hedge bindweed. Much more powerful: I saw it blooming 4 or 5 mm high in an ash tree in my hedge! I read someone who claimed that he dug out of curiosity and that over two feet deep, he came across rhizomes that were thick as a thumb. Before emptying such "batteries" of energy, they will have to be destroyed!

It also makes side branches, which run for several meters, root and form, at this location, new rhizomes.

I saw some that came out in the middle of piles of "forest chips" dumped by trucks. It crossed 1,50 m at ease (not surprising when you know the size of its rhizome).
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Re: New Sloth Garden (33)




by Did67 » 01/10/18, 14:58

PS: The literature indeed notes that Tagetes nematicides (Indian carnation nematicides) would have a negative effect on bindweed, quackgrass and some other plants, through the secretions of the roots. What Jihele33 seems to confirm! So to try. A dense carpet of this beautiful flower! Which, moreover, attracts slugs (in any case in its "normal" version - not nematicide or not labeled as such). I will try, along the hedges, to "prolong" my "hedgehog garden": the hedge (with brambles and bindweed), then a band of nematicide Tagetes to "raise" slugs while "pissing off" the bindweed !
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