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Macerated extract, infusion and decoction of garlic and onions to fight mites and fungal diseases

Garlic and onions have many antibacterial and protective properties. Fortunately not only for us, seeing that we eat them, but also for the plants in our garden, both in the open ground and in pots. Thanks to substances with antibiotic properties, naturally found in these liliaceous plants, and to the high content of sulphurous compounds, you can prevent and limit the development of fungal diseases (e.g. downy mildew) and attacks by many parasites and phytophagous insects (mites, aphids, nematodes, carrot flies, etc.) which jeopardize the health of your vegetables. Here’s how to prepare decoctions, infusions and macerated extracts.
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Intercropping in a synergistic vegetable garden: an example of what to grow

Intercropping means creating a combination of different plants that, thanks to particular characteristics, sometimes unknown (because cultivation is always the result of the complex interaction between various factors), gives rise to advantages for one or both of the species.
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Growing celery in pots, a touch of the Mediterranean on you balcony

Apium graveolens is the scientific name for common celery. It belongs to the Apiaceae family and is biennial in the wild, but grown in vegetable gardens as an annual. Celery is a typically Mediterranean plant, known since the days of Homer, when it was used above all for medicinal purposes.
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Gianumberto Accinelli, a garden full of nature

Dear friends of Grow the Planet, let me introduce myself: my name is Gianumberto Accinelli and I’m an entomologist. Yes, that’s right, I’m one of those very rare people that gets up in the morning and doesn’t build roads, doesn’t repair pipes, isn’t involved in world peace-keeping but simply has to think of the best way of accommodating their ladybirds.
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Decoction and fermented extract of horsetail, homemade organic remedies to fight fungal diseases and strengthen your plants

Common horsetail, also known as field horsetail (scientific name equisetum arvense), is a very special plant. Equisetum already existed 300 million years ago and is the only genus in the Equisetaceae family that has not become extinct (almost a living fossil!), in fact if you look at it closely, its almost alien shape decidedly reveals its ancient origins.
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Growing aubergines in pots, perfect on a sunny balcony!

Solanum melongena, is the scientific name of the aubergine or eggplant. Probably native to the sub-tropical areas of Asia, it was already grown a thousand years ago on the African coasts of the Mediterranean and was introduced to Southern Europe by the Arabs, in around the 15th Century. Nowadays there a numerous varieties, of different shapes and colours, which ripen in various periods; all of them can be grown in your Balcony-garden and, if you choose a sheltered sunny spot for them, they’ll give you an abundant and healthy harvest.

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Tomato extracts and decoction, to fight aphids and cabbage butterflies

19/06/2013

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Tomatoes are one of the world’s most widely grown vegetables, they can be eaten fresh, cooked, dried, squeezed, but that’s not all: the plant and leaves are very useful too! They can be used to make easy and effective concoctions to defend your plants from undesired attacks: tomato plants are an efficient ingredient especially to help fight aphids and cabbage, or large white, butterflies – against which they work by contact – and they function as a repellent to ward of many other phytophagous insects.

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Growing peanuts in pots, it’s easier than you think!

Tommaso Turchi

14/06/2013

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Growing peanuts in pots, it’s easier than you think!

The peanut, or Arachis hypogaea, is an annual plant with a cespitose habit that belongs to the Fabacee family, better known as the legumes. Numerous drawings found in South America demonstrate that it was already grown in Pre-Columbian times. Today it is mainly grown in Africa and Asia, but it’s also found in the Americas and in Australia; in Europe it’s grown in areas where the climate is mild, such as the Mediterranean countries. Peanuts can also be grown in your Balcony-garden, the plant is vigorous and only requires minimum care. Find a nice sunny spot, the plants will reward you with an abundant harvest of peanuts while at the same time enriching – by fixing nitrogen from the air – the soil that has been impoverished by previous crops.

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Growing aubergines in pots, perfect on a sunny balcony!

Tommaso Turchi

10/06/2013

Posted on: Balcony garden

Solanum melongena, is the scientific name of the aubergine or eggplant. Probably native to the sub-tropical areas of Asia, it was already grown a thousand years ago on the African coasts of the Mediterranean and was introduced to Southern Europe by the Arabs, in around the 15th Century. Nowadays there a numerous varieties, of different shapes and colours, which ripen in various periods; all of them can be grown in your Balcony-garden and, if you choose a sheltered sunny spot for them, they’ll give you an abundant and healthy harvest.

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Decoction and fermented extract of horsetail, homemade organic remedies to fight fungal diseases and strengthen your plants

10/06/2013

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Decoction and fermented extract of horsetail, homemade organic remedies to fight fungal diseases and strengthen your plants

Common horsetail, also known as field horsetail (scientific name equisetum arvense), is a very special plant. Equisetum already existed 300 million years ago and is the only genus in the Equisetaceae family that has not become extinct (almost a living fossil!), in fact if you look at it closely, its almost alien shape decidedly reveals its ancient origins.

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Paola Trivellini

Il problema è reperirlo, non è semplice per lo meno dalle mie parti.

9 days ago

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Andrea Attilio Gava

Se vuoi Paola io ne ho una gran quantità nel mio giardino e non riesco a liberarmene.... :-(

7 days ago

Ettore Vaccari

E' velenoso ? Lo volevo mettere nella salvia che ho in vaso sulla terrazzo a nord .

7 days ago

anna giacon

non è velenoso :)

5 days ago

Gianumberto Accinelli, a garden full of nature

06/06/2013

Posted on: How to Start

Gianumberto Accinelli, a garden full of nature

Dear friends of Grow the Planet, let me introduce myself: my name is Gianumberto Accinelli and I’m an entomologist. Yes, that’s right, I’m one of those very rare people that gets up in the morning and doesn’t build roads, doesn’t repair pipes, isn’t involved in world peace-keeping but simply has to think of the best way of accommodating their ladybirds.

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