Here's how to make a garden upside down with bags VASTLIG IKEA , reperibilissimi and extremely cheap. The idea of the garden or the garden city built with unusual materials and can get passionate about results and great satisfaction with very little money.

In this case, aesthetics is also satisfied.

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

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

How to proceed?

First-looking plants and decide if you want the plant grows upside down, ie from the bottom hole, or if you want to keep your garden in traditional and ensure that the roots to sprout from below.

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Urban dead

This is the phrase that someone suggested looking at the changes in my garden a few days ago. Urban gardens instead say about this book and loudly with the results at hand.

Here the third week of work with today are the two times I fed my plants and the results start, 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 the good results.

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When Cortes took the concept of exporting democracy with the Aztecs found himself before a great people who appeared before him in all his power in Tenochtitlan, the great Aztec capital of the kingdom.

I will not dwell on the end of this people at the hands of the conquistadores but one of the things that struck the soldiers simplest of these shipments murder on what a likely hired former peasant mob in Spanish had to do with his eyes remained presumably somewhat shaken .
The Aztec capital of the kingdom it built on some islets in Lake Texcoco and was therefore deficient in fertile soil in which to grow: a sin not just counting presumed lived in this city about 200,000 people. So an engineer with what nature had to offer, we theorized and began using a technique of cultivation "root floating" which consisted in the exploitation of the lake water through the construction of fertile floating islands. Real rafts of reeds tied together with reeds formed the backbone of this system therefore provided a thin strip of land located on rafts where to start sowing and then to find food plants in the water below.
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Indoor Gardening premise that supports and encourages self-sufficiency and initiative, spirit and soul that generally those who decide to build something with his hands.
Following this philosophy we have often presented projects with creative people who are trying and try to obtain the satisfaction of something unique and functional.
But we also received comments and emails of people disappointed, discouraged from frustration due to difficulty in replicating such success.
For this we would like to stress once more that in most cases, nothing is as simple as it is and try not harmful if the result is never guaranteed anyway.
Here are some considerations to keep in mind when you decide to roll up their sleeves and pick up the screwdriver.

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Growing tomatoes is a bit 'a classic: there's no garden where this plant is lacking, be it outdoors, in greenhouses or on the balcony of the house.

But tomatoes can suffer from different types of diseases and parasites, often due to climatic reasons beyond the control of the gardener.

Since some varieties are more resistant than others, the advice is always to buy in shops that may indicate the type best suited to your environment and your mode of cultivation, indoor or outdoor.

It 'important to grasp clearly the symptoms of malaise soon occur and intervene immediately, before the disease spreads to all your tomato plants and not only because many other plants such as potatoes, eggplants and peppers are susceptible to the same problems.

Here is a partial list of some common tomato diseases, their symptoms and how to proceed.

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Do you have a big balcony and do not know how to exploit it fully? Well, put a garden! Small, obviously.

If the idea but do not believe there attracted to succeed in building a garden alone, try to stop a moment and look at your balcony with different eyes.

To each his own space

Do you think your balcony is not so large as to contain a garden?

Do not be discouraged! A single plan does not take that much space.

Just remember that the roots need space and then each vegetable should be planted at a distance from others.

When in doubt, reduce the number of plants that you intend to plant. Better to focus on quality than quantity.

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Can not find odious those bare plots of land across the street?

You've fantasized about those ugly spaces fill with flowers but you were afraid of being prosecuted?

You can not spend to buy plants to transplant?

Or is it too difficult to reach the area where you want intervenirte?
And how many times this kind of thoughts went through your head, how many vacant lots or neglected flowerbed you cross in your life.
Well, what it takes for you is a seed bombs (bomb seeds). And 'economic, natural and organic, easy to make, easy to carry in your pocket and very efficient to cover large areas quickly.
The seed bomb is the trump card of Guerrilla Gardeners who want to reach their goal quickly and well.

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To understand better how to grow them to help get an idea of how indicative are made and how to perform vital functions in plants.

stoma on a tomato plant

The vascular system

This set of "pipes" allows the movement of nutrients and lymph through the plant.
And 'composed of two distinct parts:

The xylem and a set of plant tissue that carries water and substances dissolved in it.
Contains blood vessels (called tracheids and windpipe) through which water flows for a hundred meters (consider, for example the redwoods), solar energy and evaporation during transpiration.

The phloem, also called tissue sieve or book, is the tissue that carries the sap from the area where it is produced to that which will serve the plant or MP accumulation.
The movement occurs through the lymph organs called molecular pumps at a rate ranging from 10 to 100 centimeters per hour.

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Whatever the technique of cultivation hygiene is always crucial.
In hydroponic systems special attention should be paid to the nutrient solution, which must be replaced regularly to avoid accumulation of salts, dirt and pathogens. Normally the discharge should be done approximately every two weeks, three if you work with reverse osmosis water, in a case of brackish water.
The intense heat may necessitate more frequent replacement parts.
The emptying of the plant may be difficult, usually taking place under these schemes:

-The tube that leads from the pump irrigation plant is equipped with a valve in line with the potential to divert the flow to the third exhaust pipe.

-The tank has a sloping bottom after which is a drain valve. By opening the valve the water flows through the force of gravity.

-Using a "bilge pump", practical and light can dive when needed in the tank by connecting a hose ready for discharge. Unfortunately this type of pumps always leave a stagnation of about an inch on the bottom, but can be used in combination with the previous method.

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Maintain a strict maintenance schedule and cleaning is essential to achieve good results and avoid diseases.
Other tricks to keep the plants in good health are:
-A 'moderate humidity around 60-70%.
-Safe water source. If the water comes from a well or a lake to be sterilized before use. In any case it should not keep more than a few days (put it in a cool dark place).
Substrate and attention to draining of stagnant water
-Maintaining constant environmental factors to prevent shock to the plant (temperature, humidity, ventilation, pH, EC, light, nutrients)
-Sterile equipment. Seeds and cuttings must be from a certain source, keeping in mind that many pathogens have relatively long incubation period. It 'so essential a thorough inspection of the parent plant.

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