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How to Grow Roses from Cuttings

1) Choose the right time: cuttings can be made from August to November, when the stems of the year have grown well and matured / aged. 2) Clean your pruning shears thoroughly: remove any grime, then use alcohol and / or flame. This is to avoid staining the wound, and an infection reaches the plant. 3) Prepare the soil / pot: the soil must be very loose, draining but able to retain a little moisture. For example, you can mix 1/2 potting soil and 1/2 sand, or 1/3 potting soil, 1/3 sand and 1/3 peat. If you are planting in pots, you need a pot at least 10cm high. If you plant in the ground, plan ~ 20cm deep and complete with 5cm of the above mixture in the bottom. 4) Choose the right stems: choose stems that have grown in the year, straight and with 2-3 eyes / buds, about 15cm long if you plant in pots, 22-23cm long if you plant in full Earth. Make the lower cut a few millimeters above a bud, beveled on the side opposite the bud, to promote the recovery of the mother plant on this b...

Where to start in a new garden, in a spirit of permaculture?

By the compost. Then the potatoes, laid on the ground and covered with straw. It's a good way to aerate the land and prepare it for crops. Then you can opt for the buttes in lasagna, but they seem more suited to drought climates. In my case I chose vegetable squares. The essential rules of permaculture are to never leave the soil bare (mulching), not to return it in depth (you can air it with a spade or a special tool called grelinette) and alternate crops. You can also add flowers to your garden, it's pretty and it attracts pollinators. Some are even more useful like marigolds, borage or marigolds. Once you are started, you can learn about plants that use "self-help" mechanisms to associate them.

Which is the fruit or vegetable that grows fastest? (from the seed to the possibility of being consumed)

We need to eliminate all the fruits which grow on a tree, because it takes at least 1 or 2 years to the tree to produce its first fruit - apple, pear, peach, apricot, ... The strawberry grows in 3-4 months, but not directly from the seed. From a plant. Melon and watermelon grow in 3-4 months depending on the climate from the seed. In the tropics, it's more like 2-3 months. In the tropics, banana and pineapple can grow in 2 months, but also from a plant, not a seed. For vegetables, cucumber can make a fruit in less than 2 months in the tropics (it's a fruit, in botany). Lettuce can also grow in 2 months in summer. Or in the tropics. Stronger, the mache can grow even faster in summer, but it is grown especially in winter. Radish grows very fast. There is even a variety called "18 days radish". Finally, the fastest of all, it is the shoots of soy, mung bean or other, which take between 2 and 5 days.

Prickly Pear Cactus

Prickly Pear Cactus Imagine a plant which can provide you with several year-round foods, as well as a sweetener, an ice cream flavoring, a red dye, a hair conditioner, flour, and still be a drought tolerant burglar fence. This versatile plant is the prickly pear cactus, providing food, medicine, dye, and landscaping. It is not isolated to remote Arizona deserts, but is found throughout the United States. Though it is most common in the Southwest, it is found on the plains as far east as Nebraska, and one species grows along the Atlantic Coast. Throughout the city of Los Angeles, large and small patches of prickly pear are common on hillsides and vacant lots. In fact, it is so common that it's often just regarded as a "weed." Though it is correct that cacti are about 90% water, it is a myth that you can simply insert a spigot into a cactus and then fill your canteen. ...

Fattening Sheep for The Sacrifice Feast of Eid

Market lambs Production We have bought 20 sheep to be fattened and sold in a couple of months from now in the occasion of the islamic festival called Aid or Eid , when each family "Festival of the Sacrifice"), also called the "Sacrifice Feast" or "Bakr-Eid", is the second of two Muslim holidays celebrated worldwide each year, and considered the holiest of the two. It honors the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son, as an act of submission to God's command, before God then intervened, through his angel Jibra'il (Gabriel) and informs him that his sacrifice has already been accepted. The meat from the sacrificed animal is preferred to be divided into three parts. The family retains one third of the share; another third is given to relatives, friends and neighbors; and the remaining third is given to the poor and needy. In the Islamic lunar calendar, Eid al-Adha falls on the 10th day of Dhu al-Hijjah and lasts for four days.[3]...

Prickly Pear a Magic Plant

I have surrounded the farm with prickly pears plants as a fencing , and they seem to be doing all great as you can see from the pictures I am adding below , prickly pears seems the best plant adapted to this area and it does not need any special attention or care , grows almost on its own and grows anywhere and against all odds ....love this tree and I am planing to plant a bare half hectare with just prickly pears