In the current season, alas, there is no record apple harvest: the rainy and rather cool summer, which looked like a mixture of autumn and spring, interfered. But still, there is a harvest, it is tangible, and if we do not want the harvested apples to spoil in a couple of weeks, they must be properly stored. They say that with proper storage, an apple can lie for several years, retaining its varietal qualities and properties, but why should we wait so long to taste it?!

Now is the very beginning of autumn, the whole crop has not even been harvested from the site yet. But you may not believe that in order to ensure the harvest of the next season, the vacated soil, for future beds, is already time to start preparing. And this is not a joke at all: you need to prepare this soil correctly so as not to be disappointed in the next year's harvest. How to prepare the beds, how to properly dig and fertilize the most common vegetable crops right now, we will tell you today.

Pickled cucumbers in circles with citric acid are garnish cucumbers, the cooking principle of which I somehow spied on in one TV show. They showed a large factory where cucumbers are pickled for hamburgers. These are really excellent side dishes, which are indispensable in cases of emergency, when there is no time to cook dinner, but you need to feed your family. On a plate with mashed potatoes and sausages, he put a hill of cucumbers with onions - and it's already delicious!

Proper nutrition for indoor plants- one of the factors of their normal development. Fertilizers are often misunderstood as just a flowering or growth aid, but their significance is much more important. Plants obtain substances from the soil and air. But in a limited amount of substrate, they depend on whether top dressing is carried out correctly and what fertilizers are used. For pets, both macro and microelements are equally important.

Homemade tomato juice, in the recipe of which a blender is used, is simple, tasty and within the power of any housewife. I don't use a juicer. Frankly, it's just a pity for the place in the kitchen. This kitchen gadget is needed only a couple of months a year, if you are not a fan of freshly squeezed drinks, and it will take a shelf in the locker firmly and for a long time. An ordinary blender, and in the old days - a simple meat grinder and a sieve, solve the problem of making tomato juice at home.

Potash fertilizers, along with phosphorus and nitrogen fertilizers, are very important for plants, since potassium is a significant element for them, one of the three pillars on which the entire life potential of any organism rests, so the application of potash fertilizers should by no means be ignored, Moreover, there are many fertilizers that contain potassium, and you can choose the most suitable for the type of soil of your site and the plants growing on it.

Colorful symbols of summer, quivering, delicate, and at the same time so hardy, decorative poppies, leave no one indifferent. The inimitable colors and details of the structure of these amazing flowers are an invariable decoration of any garden in the summer. But the cultivation of decorative poppies is not a completely standard task, although not a difficult one. Poppies are propagated by seeds, and the choice of methods and methods of sowing allows everyone to find their own ideal option.

Pickled sweet and sour cucumbers with red currants and onions are incredibly tasty and spicy cucumbers, crispy and appetizing. I really like to diversify pickles with various additives. Everyone likes a pleasant surprise in a jar: either a crispy onion, or a carrot, or a clove of garlic. Redcurrant berries will also come in handy. If you harvested on the eve of harvesting, then nothing bad will happen to the cucumbers, just wash them cleanly.

Covering roses for the winter should be correct. Resolutely new methods are replacing the old and not always effective methods. But before talking about the basic principles of proper protection of roses, even in the most severe conditions, we will tell you about the proper preparation of plants for wintering. Choosing the right shelter for roses is a simple procedure. Especially for those who know what requirements it must meet. Do not know? We will be happy to tell you about it.

Everyone understands that a full-fledged potato crop can only be obtained from high-quality tubers that have been selected and stored for planting in the right conditions. Of course, you can always buy seed potatoes in one of the farms, but this is quite expensive, so the gardener often solves this problem himself. So, let's talk in detail and clearly about the technology for selecting seed potatoes, preparing them for storage, as well as about the storage itself.

Among the flowering indoor plants, almost all shrubs have become true legends. But if gardenia or rhododendrons, camellias and roses are everyone's favorites, then abelia is still perceived by many as exotic. These are magnificent plants with a pronounced oriental character, captivating with the density and curly crown, abundance and grace of flowering. Relentless flowering from the second half of summer to mid-autumn can not leave anyone indifferent.

Raw gooseberry jam with orange - a blank from the "it doesn't get any faster" series. For cooking, you need a blender, but you can do it the old fashioned way - twist the fruit through a meat grinder. Harvest gooseberries of varying degrees of maturity. So, unripe berries are used for jelly. For raw jam, fully ripened jams are needed. Red gooseberries ripened in my garden, so the jam turned out to be very appetizing in appearance, by the way, it also tastes amazing.

Giving abundant self-seeding, touching, perennial, biennial or annual violets never go out of garden fashion. Even the best species and varieties that have been carefully selected, still remain a little “untamed” plants, bring the charm of wild nature to any garden. Violets in any capacity and any role are a magnificent decoration of the spring season. Their beauty is wonderfully combined with the ease of cultivation (any violets are so easy to propagate).

The question, or rather two whole questions that torment many summer residents - when to start digging up table beets and when to start harvesting carrots from the garden? No one wants to hurry with this, but there is no desire to be late either. The thing is that a lot depends on the correct and most appropriate harvesting dates for these, in fact, the simplest root crops: the taste of root crops, their quality during processing and fresh consumption, and the content of vitamins.

String beans in tomato for the winter are very tasty and healthy. If a good harvest of beans has grown, do not rush to freeze everything, spend a little time on harvesting, then you will thank yourself in the winter! This vegetable salad or side dish, whatever you want to call it, I serve with meat, chicken or fish. On fasting days, it can be mixed with boiled rice - it turns out a full-fledged meal that will support the strength of fasting people and replenish the diet with vitamins and microelements.

For decoration and air freshness in a room, office, foyer or other space, large plants that look like a shrub or tree are often used. To accommodate such plants, you need a free place in which the flower will feel comfortable. The conditions for the beneficial growth and flowering of a plant are proper care, that is, providing lighting, watering, pruning - if necessary, and protection from pests. Large indoor plants can be grown on your own or purchased from flower nurseries. When choosing such a flower, it is necessary to analyze the possibility of home conditions. A meter or larger bush is unlikely to fit on the window, so you need to decide on the placement of the container with the flower. The most optimal place is the corner of the room, which is somewhat illuminated by daylight, and also protects the plant from drafts and mechanical damage. Sometimes, a favorable place for a large ornamental plant will be near the bed or soft corner, as well as in the interior of the kitchen. It all depends on the type of plant and its living conditions. For rooms with high ceilings, large indoor plants are suitable, which reach more than two meters in height and are not afraid of pruning. Some types of indoor flowers can adapt well to indoor conditions throughout the year, and in the summer, continue their life cycle on an outdoor terrace. In this case, you need to take into account the change in temperature, lighting and the presence of insects.


When choosing a large ornamental plant for a home environment, it is advisable to decide on its type. It can be an evergreen shrub or tree, with large, small, round or pointed leaves. The plant can flower as well as bear fruit like a lemon or tangerine. It can be capricious or unpretentious in care, with an individual growth rate, that is, it can reach the required height in a short period or for many years.

Growing the desired plant at home requires a considerable investment of time and effort. Some flowers need to be pollinated artificially, which is not possible for all lovers. Also, one cannot ignore the toxicity property of some plants, as they can cause an allergic reaction or have a negative reaction to the health of people living in the house.

Many flower growers grow plants in the bonsai style, that is, a small copy of a tree that is normally natural conditions, reaches incredibly large sizes. In this style, you can grow any plant, it depends on time and painstaking work. Many growers note that conifers and deciduous plants are very popular for growing bonsai at home. They grow slowly, but their decorative effect, as well as their pleasant aroma, brings pleasure. For example - pine or maple, which feel good at home, as well as on the street, in the warm season.

In room conditions, in the bonsai style, successfully grow:

  • Lilac;
  • Birch;
  • Kalina;
  • Apple tree and pear;
  • Almond;
  • Larch and spruce.

Bonsai can also be grown from tropical and subtropical houseplants. It is easier to care for them, that is, to form or create conditions for winter dormancy. To do this, choose a plant with small: a trunk, flowers and leaves. In addition to interior decoration, fresh, oxygenated air provided by indoor plants is important for the home environment. One of the properties of many flowers is healing, that is, antibacterial, in which the surrounding climate is disinfected. This effect can be achieved by planting plants:



Feeding and treatment of house plants

When choosing a plant, you need to consider the possibility of an allergenic environment for others. Almost all indoor plants need top dressing, that is, fertilizer. In this case, you can use organic feeds, which are sold ready-made in flower shops. Some ways to feed your favorite plant are prepared independently at home. To do this, use onion peel, black coffee and tea leaves, egg shells, meat slops, fruit zest, sugar, yeast, etc.

To maintain the looseness of the soil in the container, used black tea or coffee brew is poured onto it.

To saturate the soil with vitamins that plants are happy to feed on, peels from bananas, oranges and apples are used. In this case, the peels are crushed and infused in purified water, which is watered with houseplants.

To increase energy, as well as building material biological cells in a plant, use water with the addition of ordinary sugar. Such fertilizer can be applied occasionally, in order to avoid attracting pests from the external environment.

If you dilute one tablespoon of ash in a liter of water, you can disinfect the soil of indoor plants, as well as feed them with micro and macro elements: zinc, magnesium, potassium, iron and phosphorus.

Egg shells will have a good drainage effect and calcium replenishment.

Onion, vegetable and yeast cocktails, which are used only freshly prepared, have a beneficial effect on plant growth.

The purpose of mandatory feeding is to enhance the growth of the plant, maintain the size, shape and color of the bark, stems, leaves, peduncles, as well as the prevention of disease conditions. With weak immunity, the plant slows down growth, loses elasticity, sheds leaves and becomes an object for pathogenic microorganisms.

Bears a shortened underground or above-ground stem. The leaves are green, on elongated petioles, pointed at the ends, reaching a length of 15-20 cm and a width of 5-7 cm. The peduncle is twice as long as the leaf petioles. Flowers are varied, from white, red and orange to all sorts of variations with a variety of color splashes.

Anthurium, care for which requires compliance, first of all, with the regime of humidity and illumination, in general, the plant is not too picky.

- indoor flower, otherwise popularly called the "tree of love" or "tree of happiness", is a small shrub with a diameter of 20 - 30 cm, reaching a height of 30 cm. The leaves are fleshy, dark green in color, covered with fluff, with white short hairs, they are like would be in a fur coat.

- photophilous plants, they should be kept on the southern or southeastern windows without shading. On the northern windows, the development of pineapple slows down, it is unlikely that it will be possible to achieve fruiting. In the autumn-winter period, it is desirable to highlight the plants with fluorescent lamps for 8-10 hours a day. It is not recommended to turn a pineapple standing on a windowsill. It develops quite normally with a one-way stream of light. Adequate lighting indicator - large "unspoiled" green leaves and light crimson tips in young. If necessary, you can use additional light all year round(4-5 hours are enough in summer).

. Some of the asparagus are tender and soft, while others are prickly. These graceful plants resemble lace: either airy and weightless, or densely patterned. Grown mainly as ampelous, but also as potted and climbing houseplants. For curly and ampelous species in the second - third year of life, support must be provided. Asparagus need to allocate spacious areas in the room, their sprawling branches do not like frequent touches and the neighborhood of other colors.

- perennial ornamental plant, is unpretentious, requires bright, ventilated rooms. It tolerates dry air well and does not require constant spraying.

room - a plant with beautiful flowers red, pink, white or blue and bright green stems that grow up to 1.5 m long. Hydrangea blooms with early spring until late autumn, then she has a dormant period that lasts 70-80 days.

reaches a height of 30-50 cm, flowers up to 1 cm in diameter, scarlet-red, in short umbellate inflorescences, collected in turn in complex multi-flowered inflorescences. Its garden forms come with white, red, purple, yellow, orange and pink flowers. Even more elegant forms with double flowers are already on sale. There are also variegated varieties.

. This plant is often called "deer antlers" for its beautiful dissected leaves, and its real name is Kalanchoe laciniata. Perennial herbaceous plant with succulent fleshy shoots at first erect, then decumbent, the lower part of the plant becomes bare over time. The leaves are fleshy, deeply dissected, serrated along the edges, light green with a waxy coating.Like most Kalanchoe, this species does not impose any special requirements on the content.

perennial plant, especially appreciated for the original color of the leaves, which can be just green or have original stripes and spots of various shades: from yellow to brown-red. Calathea blooms in spring and summer. The flowers are small, but various kinds plants their color is so different that collected in one place, they resemble a fabulous meadow: yellow, white, purple, orange.

The flowering of these plants is inconspicuous, ctenants can please their owner only with graceful elongated leaves. Perhaps they are not as colorfully decorated as those of the arrowroot, but they make an equally pleasant impression. The plane of the thin leaf blade of the ctenant is covered with a geometrically regular pattern consisting of triangles, rhombuses, elongated strokes and ovals. Whitish or pinkish veins bring their rhythm melody to this pattern. Ktenanta - the plant is quite capricious

. - a low-growing evergreen tree with small sparse spines on the shoots. It has decorative edible fruits, fragrant white flowers and shiny dense dark green leaves that saturate the air of the room with aromas of essential oils and phytoncides.

. Plant height in room conditions can reach 20-25 cm; the length of the leaves is 10-14 cm, their width is 6-10 cm. The plant is grown for its beautifully colored leaves. The combination of dark and light spots creates a bizarre geometric pattern on their surface, superimposed on the rhythm of the arrangement of leaf veins. Most cultivars have dark purple leaves underneath.

is an evergreen woody shrub with erect stems that branch well. Leathery dense leaf blades sit on short petioles, have a dark green color, spread outlie opposite on the branches, oblong in shape and pointed to the edge.

- a genus of large tropical plants, vines with dissected leaves arranged alternately on the stems. The growing point is at the top of the shoot. In some monster species, leaves reach a diameter of 1 m. Stems with aerial roots grow up to 6 meters and gradually become woody.

- a small plant with a thick short cylindrical stem, covered with long spines. In order for the plant to please the eye with a powerful stem and branched shoots, and possibly bloom, certain conditions must be met.

- perennial evergreen herbaceous plant. They have thick fleshy stems, erect, decumbent or hanging, often creeping. Sometimes the stems are very shortened, and the leaves sit on them so closely that they form a kind of rosette. The leaves are entire, entire, without stipules, as are the stems. Peperomia are very different among themselves leaf blades. There are peperomia with glossy leathery leaves, dark green or variegated with white strokes, there are golden and silver-striped, brown or olive, and there are corrugated or velvety leaves, the shape can be fleshy and wrinkled, smooth and velvety, rounded, lanceolate, heart-shaped, fraternal. The arrangement of leaves on the stems may be alternate or whorled.

beautiful perennial herbaceous plant, can be both shrubs and semi-shrubs. Stems can be creeping, recumbent, and upright. Ruellia leaves can be either glossy or suede, the veins on the leaves are sometimes painted in bright contrasting colors.

- an extraordinary houseplant that tolerates dry air, is unpretentious in cultivation and is suitable for making flower arrangements, as well as for growing as a single plant.

herbaceous plant with climbing, falling, watery shoots. The leaves are elongated, with a pointed straight top and smooth edges. At the base of a navicularly bent leaf covering the stem, ragged hairs grow. Small flowers are collected in dense bunches at the tops of the shoots. With age, the shoots become bare and break upon sharp contact.

- this is a plant that grows as a sprawling beautiful bush, the more you pinch it, the more magnificent and elegant the bush will be. It has decorative bright green or dark red wide oval leaves. Sinadenium practically does not bloom. This plant belongs to the euphorbia family.Sinadenium prefers bright diffused light, suitable for growing near windows to the west and east. At the windows of the south direction in the summer, it is necessary to provide the plant with shading from direct sunlight. Lack of light with a warm content in the autumn-winter period can lead to stretching of the plant, it can lose its decorative effect.