10 orchard ideas and tips to start or improve

Do you need ideas for the garden, to get the most out of it and to find the solution to certain pest problems? To know some tips that can help us, for beginners to learn basic tricks and for veterans to consider, I have compiled 10 garden ideas that will be useful to you.

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To compile all the entries we have in La Huertina de Toni in terms of tips and ideas for vegetable gardens, which will surely be useful to more than one, I have made the following list:

1. Which vegetables or vegetables are the ones you like to eat: This way you will be more encouraged to take care of your plants and you will taste them better when you eat them.

2. If you are new, start with the simplest ones like radish, or plant lettuce (of the different types of lettuce), chard, spinach.

3. not all weeds we must start them, because there are some that can be useful to us. This is another garden idea to consider. For example, he Sonchu sp., known as lock or lock. This plant attracts aphids which feed exclusively on it and these aphids attract many predators such as hoverflies, lacewings and lady beetles, which work as a biological control, without the need for home remedies against pests. aphids.

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4. He brings the nutrients necessary for your plants with these simple methods:

– Potassium: Banana tea, Comfrey tea from our beloved Russian comfrey, Potato or potato tea.

– Calcium: Eggshells, a natural way to create this mineral and take advantage of a very common organic residue in orchards that we also have a chicken coop.

– Other nutrients: earthworm humus. Undoubtedly one of the most complex and complete homemade fertilizers, created using Californian worms.

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5. Enjoy it all:

– Plant remains from the house, coffee grounds, eggshells, fruit skins, everything for the composter.

– Pest traps with reused materials.

– Weeds for chickens.

6. As we said, to provide nutrients, nothing like worm humus. Obtain worms for food plant remains at low altitude like the famous Eisenia foetida. They turn organic matter into fertilizer for your plants and reduce the daily waste you produce.

7. Factory chickpeas or beans among other plants because they capture nitrogen from the air and convert it to make it “edible” for other plants.

8. Save water using drip irrigation and water them when traveling with this method.

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9. In addition to vegetables and fruits, plant medicinal herbs or with flowers for your infusions and to attract pollinating insects such as hoverflies, bees, butterflies and beetles.

ten. keep your orchard per dayFor this you can find many tips on the Youtube channel of La Huertina de Toni. In addition, we recommend that you consult our planting calendar, which is a guide that will be useful to you.

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