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A chainsaw is necessary in a country farm. With it, you can also knock down an old tree, and quickly prepare firewood. And for those who make wood, it is simply irreplaceable. For ordinary tasks, you do not need to buy an expensive professional model at all — a household […]
4. Forgot about the chain lubricant When filling the saw with a fuel mixture, remember about the oil for lubricating the chain. If it is not enough, it is better to top up to a full tank. After all, the fuel and oil tanks are emptied during operation almost simultaneously. […]
Agriculture, like everything else, has its own history. It is quite long: perhaps this is the most ancient branch — historians count almost 12 millennia. In one of the previous publications, we considered slash-and-burn agriculture. And in this article I propose to get acquainted with the chinamp technology — the […]
Should a vegetable garden be beautiful? Many will answer with confidence: “Of course, yes!” However, beauty is a subjective concept, you will agree. Everyone understands what kind of garden can be called beautiful in their own way, but there are ideas that have been tested by time and practice, have […]
About 10-12 thousand years ago, in the Neolithic era, our ancestors decided to switch from collecting edible root fruits and hunting to agriculture and animal husbandry. Historians value this fact very highly and call it the First Agrarian Revolution. It was the emergence of agriculture that laid the foundation of […]
For many summer residents, the issue of a place available for planting is very acute: it is often catastrophically not enough to satisfy all summer fantasies. And although my plot is quite spacious, I also try to optimize my beds. In this publication I want to share my experience of […]
Like other building materials, concrete is prone to crumbling and discoloration, which is caused by dampness, as well as related defects – cracking and peeling. Repairs are usually similar in many ways to working with brickwork and cement plaster, although there are also some features that you should be aware […]
May is the time to harvest and dry valuable medicinal raw materials — currant leaf. It is at this time that young blackcurrant leaves contain the maximum amount of vitamin C and are the most useful for our body. However, many summer residents use them not so much for medicinal […]
In nature, plants are not divided into beautiful and edible. Only a person once decided to do this by defining a place in flower beds for some, and sending others to the garden. But even this division turned out to be temporary, because in recent years, with the advent of […]
Brassicaceae But you should not wait for the flowering of vegetable plants from the Brassicaceae family (radish, turnip, daikon, mustard, cabbage). Firstly, the inflorescences consisting of four-petalled yellow flowers are not too decorative, and secondly, the taste and appearance of the “bloomed” vegetable will be hopelessly spoiled, even if we […]