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 make sure that the roots to sprout from below.

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Grow tomatoes is a bit 'a classic garden where there is missing this plant, 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.

And 'obviously important to understand the symptoms of malaise soon occur and intervene immediately, before the disease is spreading to all your tomato plants and not just 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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Can not find odious those lots of bare ground at the side of the roads?

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 wishing to reach their goal quickly and well.

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Fertilization is a key point in the cultivation, so the choice of a good brand of specific nutrients will already by that difference.
Let's see what other tricks they maximize their potential.

The dosages listed on the label must always be respected by ensuring proper use fertilizer in the right quantities depending on the growth stage of the plant (roots, growth, flowering), the substrate used ( coir , hydroponics , earth ) and where products are highly also based on the specific type of plant (eg chillies , or Orchid )

Multicomponent fertilizers and food additives are never mixed in concentrated form or in a little water. These products are kept separate because direct contact with each other may be harmful residues.

First of all, then fill the tank, then pour one to a fertilizer, then mix well to avoid a pH and an uneven distribution.

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Although there are excellent products on the market that provide a light spectrum suitable for the cultivation of plants, no lamp accurately reproduces the sunlight.
It 'important to equip the best to make the most of what technology can offer.

What do I need?
A plant needs a standard ballast (power supply) that turn on and regulate the flow of current that powers the lights, a reflector to focus and enhance the beam (usually already equipped with a lamp), a Timer for timing of 'lighting and of course one or more bulbs.

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The proper ventilation is essential to prevent accumulation of heat and humidity common in indoor cultivation.
But how is it made a good ventilation system?
First, an extractor adapted to the volume of your Growroom taking into account that the scale should allow the extraction of the air in 5 minutes.
You do the math yourself or contact a specialist shop for choice.
Make sure you have all the information necessary to help those responsible to advise the best product for you: room volume, length and diameter of the ventilation tubes, with or without filters, wattage supported by your system.

Remember also that in calculating the space to avoid condensation and consequent damage the extractor will be mounted vertically, parallel to the wall.
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Cultivating NFT inflow of water must reach all the roots at each irrigation.

Although some always leave the active pump is a recommended programming at intervals to ensure 10-20 irrigations per hour during daylight hours, to be reduced during the dark.

If the medium is perlite is necessary to ensure frequent watering, every 2-3 hours.

If the solution is given from above to make sure that it is well distributed. This also applies to the clay , especially if the size is quite large.

The water still tends to create "channels" within the particular substrate and mainly through them: to avoid this is to reach all the roots.

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General rules

Whatever the technique, please make sure you follow some basic rules.
-Size of containers: try to cram the plants is never productive.

The containers must be large enough to allow good root development. Compress or limit this growth would certainly lose some of the potential of the plant.
The root hairs are responsible for most absorption of nutrients and the consequent development of the plant.

-Drainage: The roots are sensitive and susceptible to blight. Ensure their adequate ventilation is essential.
So make sure that ducts and trays have the necessary slope, the tubes are always free (possible use of filters) and that the drain hole systems is the lowest point possible.
Where practical, vessels used in the network to allow air circulation and encourage root growth.

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Compost is a logical consequence of anyone with a minimum of ecological spirit, contrary to what you may believe, realize it is not difficult and does not smell unpleasant.

WHAT 'THE COMPOST

The term compost or compost product is given, fertilizer, humus-like, obtained through the natural decomposition of organic matter fermented in the presence of oxygen and converted into organic matter simpler, more assimilated by plants. This transformation, which is usually by bacteria, is called composting.

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Here's a handy guide to quickly and easily build a house for beneficial insects.

Someone will ask: why should we put ourselves in the house of insects, and in that sense would be helpful?

Well, first of all your garden is an important refuge for wildlife and a great place to observe it closely.

Imagine the scene: the herbivores that graze quietly, some cleverly camouflaged to avoid being seen, and predators are around looking for an opportunity to pounce on sventuarata dinner.

Suddenly, the carnivore jumps and grabs the prey that struggles. What a scene!
Are we in the Serengeti?

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