Cat mint can proliferate if you don’t keep it in check. This is for many the main reason to cut this perennial regularly. But there are many more reasons why a cut can be useful. To preserve health A backcut,…
some love her, while others are happy when she has finally disappeared from the garden. Over self-seeding, the catnip multiplies gladly and quickly in self-direction. But you can also take the propagation into your own hands. Method 1: Sowing Catnip produces numerous small seeds after flowering. So they become new herbaceous perennials: collect in autumn and sow in spring easily cover with nutrient-poor soil ideal germ temperature: 20 °C keep…
To buy a preferred catnip and plant it in the garden is no trick. If you are looking for a little challenge and love watching small seeds turn into pretty perennials, you should pull catnip from seeds. Select suitable…
The Akebie or climbing cucumber (bot. Akebia quinata) comes from East Asia. As a tropical plant, it is only conditionally hardy. So far the attractive climbing plant with its fragrant flowers and edible fruits is not very widespread yet. Can I cultivate an Akebia quinata in a bucket? Not frost hardy plants are often cultivated in tubs so that they can easily be brought into winter quarters. This is also…
Mangold is a valuable leaf vegetable that is rich in proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals and can therefore be grown as an attractive alternative to spinach. With the cut or leaf chard and the stem or ribbed chard there are…
Mangold is available in many variants. Especially the varieties with multicoloured stems like “Bright Lights” are the ones that bring colour to the vegetable bed. Their cultivation begins at the end of March. But even those who discover their heart for the nutritious leafy vegetables only in the course of the early summer can still cultivate the chard themselves until August. Mangold is sown directly outdoors In general, chard is…