What better time to renew your grow room?

Back from vacation, once the summer heat, it's time for cleaning and tidying.

For reliable operation the area of ​​cultivation must always be kept in better hygiene, and a nice deep cleaning between cycles and the other is definitely a good idea.

If you have the reflective cloth to remove it and clean even under the walls if possible. Then you can reapply it or replace it with the towel again to the traditional or silver .

Attention to the growing media. A substrate reused or excessively dirty or maybe full of nutrient solution may damage the next crop cycle.

The organic soil is reused if you DO NOT usually grown in pots. You can still mix it into garden soil or mix it with fresh potting soil when you plant a little demanding.

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Rosa x 'Lovely Meilland ®' Meiratcan

It is presented this year to Flormart of Padua (from 9 to 11 September) Nature Meilland ®, rose 100% organic, in stores from mid-October in gardens, nurseries and organic food store.

It is a creation of French -Meilland Richardier , leading to hybridization of roses for floriculture, represented in Italy by Biancheri Trading Ltd..

The winning feature of the variety is a particular strength: in fact due to a work of selection and hybridization was roses can create virtually immune to disease, so that will not require any treatment or pesticide.
The line Meilland Nature relies entirely on the impact of 100% organic and comes with rice husks into biodegradable pots that can be safely left in the ground.

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And 'possible for a family of four people become self-sufficient in terms of food with a modest investment and some' do-it-yourself.

Photo: www.gardenpool.org

Having a little 'space, yes. This is the lesson that gives us this family of Mesa, Arizona, which in 2009 moved into a new house has found already installed an old empty pool.

Instead of spending thousands of dollars to fix it or filling of land have decided to roll up their sleeves and build a greenhouse and sustainable urban economy, combining techniques and basic concepts of 'aquaponica, hydroponics, traditional cultivation, water conservation, biological filtration, breeding poultry and solar energy.

The total independence according to the project should have been reached in 2012, but already by mid-2010 the plant proceeded independently.

The production offers 8 eggs a day, more fish Tilapia than a family of four can consume, and a good supply of fruit, vegetables and herbs, 365 days a year, and all completely organic and biological.

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by Tool Using Animal

Make a sort of hydroponic gardens powered by the sun's heat, which requires almost no maintenance, recycled materials?
Possible.

It takes very little money and is not even required a particular skill.
Certainly in terms of aesthetics has seen better, but using your imagination you can definitely make some improvements just to the eye.

So, what we see is a prototype system of this kind Ebb & Flood.
It is based on the physical principle for which the temperature of the gas trapped in the tank leads to an increase in the volume of the gas itself.

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Saturday 9 and Sunday, October 10 at the Castle of San Salvatore in Susegana - London will host the first edition of FLOR-ART, Exhibition of green and quality craftsmanship.

In a unique location, the castle of San Salvatore, set in one of the most beautiful landscapes of the Veneto, Conegliano hills, so loved and painted by Cima da Conegliano, FlorArt offers a survey of over one hundred exhibitors, including nurseries and artisans, linked by common thread of quality and uniqueness of the proposals.

FlorArt presents the best of the authentic artisans and nurserymen of quality for the first time in a land rich, important and taste and needs more and more refined - which the North East, an event of great quality and appeal. A pending proposal, supported by many supports that are collecting. They have already joined, in fact, the "friends FlorArt" Ferruccio Carassale, Charles Marquis, Catherine Gromis of Tranent, Mary Lucretia Lee, Gallarati Scotti, Georgiana Bianchini of Alberigo, Ninni Collalto Facchinetti, Julian of Collalto Ferne, Mirella Collavini, Nicholas Valmarana, Diana Lorena Camerini.

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Here's how to make a vegetable garden upside down with bags of IKEA VASTLIG , reperibilissimi and extremely cheap. The idea of ​​the garden or the garden city built with unusual materials and passion allows us to obtain results and great success with very little money.

In this case also the aesthetics is satisfied.

Description: This project is to provide the best seedlings, although you can achieve with plants already grown. In this case were used tomato plants.

Tools: scissors, earth, plants, cardboard or cardboard or felt. A point on which to hang your pot upside down.

How to proceed?

-First, look at the plants and decide if you want the plant to grow upside down, ie from the hole on the bottom, or if you want to keep your garden in the traditional and make sure they are the roots to sprout from the bottom.

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The FAI - Italian Environment Fund and the ACADEMY OF PIEDMONT AREA present the 6 th edition of TWO DAYS FOR FALL -

Everything for the garden.

Exhibition and market of special and unusual plants, bulbs, books, equipment and furniture, in the Castle Park Masino - Caravino (TO)

Saturday 16 and Sunday, October 17, 2010 the park of the Castle of Masino, in Caravino (Torino), will host the sixth edition of "Two days in the autumn", exhibition and market of unusual plants and special in a spectacular show of colors and Autumn flavors, organized by the FAI - Italian Environmental Fund under the careful direction of the architect Paul Pejrone, founder and President of the Piedmont Garden.

The event this year will offer to all experts or simple gardening enthusiasts the unique opportunity to meet up with over 125 of the best Italian and European nurserymen, Masino to present their collections of point and interesting news. In this season of renewal and preparation for the next year, visitors can then read up on plants and flowers for the "garden that will be", and purchase rare and ancient orchard and garden products, which are usually difficult to find.

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The FAI - Italian Environment Fund and the PIEDMONT ACADEMY OF GARDEN show "GARDENS IN AUTUMN", at Villa Necchi Campiglio - 14 Mozart Street, Milan.

Saturday 30 and Sunday, October 31, 2010, from 10 to 18, Villa Necchi Campiglio in Milan will host the "Gardens of autumn scents and legumes," selling exhibition devoted entirely to seasonal produce from the garden and the orchard organized by the Environment Fund Italian in collaboration with the Academy of Piedmont Garden chaired by architect Paul Pejrone, former director for the FAI's "Three days in the Garden" and "Two days in the autumn," the Castle of Masino (TO) and de " The flowers of awakening "in March hosted again at Villa Necchi.

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The store GrowerPlanet of Genoa , in collaboration with Indoor Gardening, offers a discount of 5% on an article to be purchased in store (not valid for online purchases).

Each coupon is to print and fill out and can only be spent by the holder. Each customer can only use one coupon.

GrowerPlanet is wholesale and retail supplier of products for gardening, hydroponics, indoor growing.

Download the coupon in PDF now.

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Photos and texts courtesy of ilRospo.it

Urban Dead

This is the phrase that some have suggested seeing changes in my garden a few days ago. URBAN GARDENS instead say about this book and loudly with the results at hand.

Here we are at the third week of work with today are the two times I've fed my plants and the results begin, at least in part, to be seen. Eight vigorous plants are driving it all the other plants to success: some are left behind, probably because of the difficulty of entering into direct contact with water, but expectations remain high and are having good quality of results.

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