SHOULD I DESTROY BUGS IN THE GARDEN OR NOT? In the fall, I noticed small insects on the plants that emitted an unpleasant odor when touched. Who are they and are they dangerous for the garden? Elena Ignatovich, Smolensk - Most likely, these are ground bugs from the genus Kleidocerys - Kleiciocerys resedae and/or Kleidocerys privignus. They are so similar to each other that only...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Do stink bugs harm plants in the garden and why are they dangerous?FEEDING ROSES - SCHEDULE FOR THE WHOLE SEASON + NAME OF FERTILIZERS Roses are fed according to a certain scheme. You cannot overfeed the plants - they bloom weaker and winter worse, since the shoots do not lignify well. It is better to underfeed roses than to overfeed them. The bushes are fed four times a season. The application of fertilizers should be timed to coincide with certain phenological phases (the beginning of leaf regrowth, the beginning of budding, mass...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Feeding scheme for roses - FERTILIZE 4 TIMES!FEEDING PEONIES ALL SEASON Peony is a crop that is quite demanding on soil fertility. On a sandy substrate, the bush produces a lot of foliage, but very few flowers and they themselves are small. On clay soils, plants develop slowly, although large flowers are formed. The ideal soil for growing peony is loamy, deeply cultivated (to the entire depth of the root layer - up to ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... 4 feeding of peonies - from spring to autumnBEANS AND PUMPKIN AS SIDERATS My motto: the best green manure. - This is the vegetable crop itself that produces a harvest. The best legumes are peas or beans. In other words: a gardener should not waste effort at the end of the season on growing a second, useless crop: rye, mustard, etc. And I conducted an experiment: I planted pumpkin and beans as green manure...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Vegetables as green manure – pumpkin and beans: my reviewsFEEDING AND CARE FOR A BIG STRAWBERRY YIELD What is more important to you - quantity or quality? For me it's definitely quality. But there was a time, I dreamed, naively, of picking garden strawberries in buckets. Then I grew wiser, and instead of ten sour berries I wanted to eat a few, but sweet ones. And my life experiments began. I started, of course, not with my own mistakes (who wants...
Garden and cottage - read more ... 2 homemade fertilizers for strawberries and care tips