The chemical industry offers gardeners more and more new preparations to protect plants from pests and diseases. But often the simplest, inexpensive and long-known tools that are always at hand can very effectively solve suburban problems. One of such familiar resources is tar soap. Its special properties come from the […]
Floating Gardens And Vegetable Gardens: How To Farm In Unusual Conditions
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 […]
Slash-And-Burn Agriculture: This Was Not Told In Textbooks
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 […]
Healthy Selection, Or How Healthy Vegetables Are Created
Recently, the issue of healthy human nutrition has become more and more urgent. And surprisingly, an important tool for solving this problem is the selection of vegetable crops. What is selection and how it is related to a healthy diet Selection is the process of breeding new varieties (hybrids) of […]
Soil On The Site: What You Need To Know About The Composition, Quality And Ways To Improve (Part 1)
When developing a plot, many landowners, without hesitation, import cars of peat, sand, manure or “chernozem” removed during reclamation, although their own mother soil is both better and richer. Therefore, many people should get acquainted with information about soils, their composition and quality. Says a specialist-candidate of agricultural Sciences. Soil […]