Radishes in the garden bring you a lot of benefits – with probably the simplest care imaginable for an edible plant. The main thing is that it is not sown too early, because then it can shoot. Details later in the text. It’s also healthy and tasty – so if you don’t have a radish in your garden…
Fennel has the botanical name Foeniculum vulgare and belongs to the umbelliferae family. Problems often arise when cultivating the tasty useful plant. In this context, two phenomena can be seen which are closely linked. The fennel shoots up and at the same time does not form any bulbs. In order to avoid this growth behavior, the causes must…
Home-grown tomatoes are something completely different than bought ones: the taste is worlds better. They are significantly fresher and not as watery. If you have a garden, you can grow tomatoes without problems with a lack of space. But there are also suitable varieties for balconies. However, the plants are not recommended for pure housing. Typical tomato diseases Tomatoes…
Salads are divided into two groups, the lettuce salads and the chicory salads. The milky juice that the leaves excrete when cut is characteristic of lettuce salads. It contains light bitter substances that have the purpose of deterring predators. There are only annual or biennial plants. These include, for example, iceberg lettuce, romaine lettuce and batavia lettuce. The chicory salads…
The skillful cultivation of tomatoes rests on several pillars. If only one of them is out of balance, the longed-for harvest of crisp, fresh paradise apples is at stake. Yellow leaves are one of the most common damage patterns on tomato plants and signal serious complications. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a disease or a pest infestation. Various…
The Colorado potato beetle belongs to the leaf beetle family. It becomes between 7 and 15 millimeters long and is yellow. Its pronotum, which has black spots and the 10 dark longitudinal stripes on the wing covers, is noticeable. The Colorado beetle can defend itself well. In the event of danger, he excretes what is known as a military…
Hot peppers are popular, including jalapeños and habaneros. The small to medium-sized jalapeños were named after a Mexican city, after Xalapa. They are typical representatives of the species Capsicum annuum, i.e. the Spanish pepper. Habaneros do not come from Havana, i.e. from Cuba, as is often assumed, but from the Yucatan peninsula, where they are still grown today. They…
Unfortunately, some types of lettuce, such as the lettuce and lettuce, tend to shoot in summer. That means: The visual appearance of the plant begins to change. A tall stalk grows out of the middle of the head of the lettuce, which only bears isolated, small leaves and forms flowers after a short time. What does shooting…
Brussels sprouts are a tasty classic among winter vegetables. If you want to successfully grow the vegetable cabbage from the cruciferous plant family, you need plenty of space, a lot of patience and should stick to the schedule that Mother Nature sets for cultivation. Although Brussels sprouts are sown in spring, the harvest – depending on the…
Cut salads or plucked salads are varieties of garden salads. They do not form heads, but individual leaves, usually in a loose rosette, which are simply harvested from the outside in. This has the advantage that you can only harvest as much as can actually be freshly processed. With lettuce, the entire head is cut off, regardless of…