What better time to renew your grow room?

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

For perfect growing space must always be kept in better hygiene, and a good 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 soaked in nutrient solution can possibly 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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And 'possible for a family of four people become self-sufficient in terms of food with a modest investment and a little' to do it yourself.

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Having a little 'space, yes. This is the lesson that gives us this family of Mesa, Arizona, which in 2009 moved into a new home has already been installed in 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 sustainable economic and urban emissions, 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 per day, plus Tilapia fish than a family of four can consume it, and a good supply of fruits, 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 heat of the sun, which requires almost no maintenance, recycled materials?
Can.

It takes very little money and is not even required a particular skill.
Certainly in terms of aesthetics we have seen better, but it is certainly possible working of imagination some improvement even for the eye.

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

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Here's how to create a vegetable garden upside down with bags of IKEA VASTLIG , reperibilissimi and extremely cheap. The idea of ​​the garden city gardening or atypical materials made with passion and allows to obtain results with very little money and great satisfaction.

In this case also the aesthetic is satisfied.

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

Tools: scissors, earth, plants, cardboard, or cardboard or felt. A point at 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 that they are the roots to sprout from the bottom.

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Photos and text courtesy of published 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 is the third week of work, with today are the two times I have fed my plants and the results begin, at least in part, to be seen. Eight plants are vigorous pulling it all the other plants to success: some are left behind probably because of the difficulty of entering into direct contact with the water, but the expectations remain high and are having good results.

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Photos and text courtesy of published ilRospo.it

When Cortes took the concept of exporting democracy with the Aztecs found himself before a great nation that stood before him in all his power to Tenochtitlan, the great Aztec capital of the kingdom.

I will not dwell on the end of this people at the hands of the conquistadors, but one of the aspects of the soldiers struck the simplest of these murderous expeditions: on what a likely ex-farmer had hired the Spanish rabble to see with his eyes remained presumably quite shocked .
The capital of the Aztec kingdom it stood on some islets in Lake Texcoco, and was therefore deficient in fertile ground on which to grow: a flaw is not just counting which is assumed to live in this city about 200,000 people. Thus, striving with what nature had to offer, we theorized and began using a cultivation technique to "root floating" which consisted in the exploitation of the lake through the construction of floating islands fertile. Actual rafts of reeds bound together with reeds formed the backbone of this system, therefore, foresees a thin strip of land located on the 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-reliance and initiative, and the spirit that animates those who usually decides to build something with his hands.
Following this idea we have often presented projects with creative people from trying again and again got the satisfaction of something unique and functional.
However, we also received comments and emails of people disappointed, discouraged by the frustration due to the difficulty in replicating such a success.
For this we would like to stress once more that in most cases nothing is as simple as it seems and that if no harm in trying, however, the result is never guaranteed.
Here's a few words to keep in mind when you decide to roll up their sleeves and appeal of the screwdriver.

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

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 to buy in shops that may indicate the type best suited to your environment and your mode of cultivation, indoor or outdoor.

And 'course, important to understand the symptoms of the illness as soon as they occur and take action immediately, before the disease spreads to all your tomato plants and not only, as many other plants such as potatoes, eggplants and peppers are susceptible to the same problems.

Here is a partial list of some common diseases of tomatoes, 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 vegetable garden! Small, of course.

If the idea appeals to you but do not think I can build a garden on your own, try to stop a moment and look at your balcony with different eyes.

To each his own space

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

Do not be discouraged! A single plan does not take up 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 over quantity.

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Those lots are not detestable bare soil on the side of the roads?

Have you fantasized about those ugly spaces filled with flowers, but you were afraid of being pursued?

You can not spend to buy plants to transplant?

Or is it too difficult to reach the area where you would like intervenirte?
And how many times this kind of thoughts went through your head, how many lots have been abandoned or neglected cross-bedding in your life.
Well, what we want for you is a seed bomb (bomb suits). And 'economic, natural and organic, easy to make, easy to carry in your pocket and extremely 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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