Eating apples is good for the resistance to asthma
The apple is a much more powerful antioxidants than one supplier of hitherto thought, according to independently conducted research in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. That way he can not only protect the body against heart disease and against some cancers but also against asthma.
In many places around the world, researchers working on the effects of antioxidants mapping. Antioxidants are substances that protect the body against oxidation. Are oxidation and free radicals that can damage protein, fat and DNA molecules cause. The antioxidants that provide protection against free radicals. Vitamin C and carotenoids (eg beta carotene in carrots and lycopene in tomatoes) are notable examples of such antioxidants.
Of independently conducted research in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, it now appears that the apple is a major source of antioxidants. The fruit contains large amounts of quercetin and other substances that have powerful antioxidant effect. A single apple makes even the same antioxidant activity as 1500 milligrams of vitamin C, as calculated by researchers Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The concentration of antioxidants, however, is five times stronger than in the skin into the flesh. An apple we can better do not peel.
Two apples a day for asthma
They knew that antioxidants protect mainly against heart disease and cancer of the head and neck, esophagus and stomach. The antioxidants in apples seem to be more. A study by the faculty of the St George Hospital in London had already shown that eating more than five apples a week, the breathing and lung function improved significantly.
Subjects over a period of five years more than five apples a week eating, were 13.8 cm larger lungs than those who never ate an apple. New research in Australia, the United Kingdom and Finland, now regularly eat apples also protects against asthma. The researchers found less asthma in people who are always at least two apples a day.
Finally, researchers from Cornell University in New York a link with Alzheimer's disease. They have found that quercetin, an antioxidant found mainly in apples occurs, brain cells of rats protects against oxidative stress, a condition that damages the brain tissue as occurs in Alzheimer's disease.
More apples - and generally more fresh fruits and vegetables - eat equips our body with the right antioxidants, which is now once again proved. When choosing vegetables and fruit is also not insignificant that the products are impeccably fresh and of good quality and above all environmentally conscious that they were grown. These guarantees are provided by the Flandria label. Choosing home-grown products is literally healthy!
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Apples and pears
Apples and pears: tree shapes, races and storage
Apples and pears
When planting apples and pears, we think first of the delicious fruit. Then the selected races through the centuries. The shape, color, flavor and shelf life of fruits to determine their value. In apples is now a red blush appreciated. In time the trees blossom as beautiful as ornamentals.
Apple - tree form
Of apple (Malus domestica), various shapes of trees for sale, from the small remaining core to majestic trees burgeoning high. For small gardens are also suitable espaliered forms.
Fruit Varieties are always grafted onto a rootstock. Which determines the rate of growth of the variety of apple or pear. Sometimes even an intermediate strain used.
Growing weak rootstocks such as 'M 9' and 'M 27' ensure that the fruit tree bears small, and yet rich.
Tree Types:
The spindle is a weak growing root no more than 3 meters and is ideal for small gardens. First place a sturdy tree pole into the ground of about 2.5 m long;
An old-fashioned tall is often incredibly beautiful. But beautiful is not always practical. So it takes a lot of high pedigree space, up to 15 sqm. The first branches are also 2 m above the ground. For harvesting and pruning is therefore a ladder.
The shrub (stem of 50 cm height) and the half tribe (tribe of 1 to 1.20 m high) are intermediate forms. These tree types have quite a lot of space, but less than a tall.
Apple - breeds
When choosing the breed characteristics particular play a role, with the fruit have to do. Is it an eating apple puree or apple?
A second point to consider is the durability. Summer apples such as 'James Grieve' can only be stored for several weeks. In store apples such as 'Boskoop' is that a few months.
A typical apple summer (August), 'James Grieve'.
Keep Baar 'Alkmene, early September.
Good storage apples 'Elstar' and 'Cox Orange Pippin'.
'Jonagold' (harvest: October preservable to February).
If the old-fashioned apple purée bewaarras' Boskoop '(better known as "Goudreinette') are still appreciated.
Old-fashioned varieties
Apple varieties with names like "Silk Singlet ',' Sterappel" Double Bellefleur 'and' Groninger Kroon 'appeal to the imagination. They often thrive well without much care. The races are for the true enthusiast. The fruits are often a characteristic flavor.
Pollination
The flowers of fruit trees to be pollinated. Otherwise they have no fruit. At least two trees for pollination of the same kind of need, therefore, two apple trees. They may be different from race, as long as they bloom simultaneously. Why are ornamental apples for pollination of apple consumption. The best pollinators are Malus' Golden Hornet 'and' Professor. Sprenger. Apples are decorative enough in residential areas.
Tip! In the past, apples are preserved by drying them. Cut them into slices and place on a wire. Varieties that lend themselves include "Notary Apple" and "Keulemans".
Pears
Rootstock for pear (Pyrus communis) is mainly 'Kwee MA' and 'Quince MC. But even with a weak rootstock grow stronger pears than apples. Tall with a 'hybrid' as rootstock has a narrower crown than apples. Pears Keep away from heat and shelter.
An attractive variety is 'Conference' already in the third year after planting in late August / early September to give a modest harvest. The advantage of this pear is that the 'Conference' without pollination fruit. Pollinated fruits, however, have a larger and more beautiful shape.
As summer variety is 'Bonne Louise d'Avranches' recommended. Four days after picking the fruit is ripe.
Good pears are "St. Remy 'and' Gieser Wildeman '.
Tip! A pear is ripe to eat the flesh in the stem shrinks a bit.
Apples and pears
When planting apples and pears, we think first of the delicious fruit. Then the selected races through the centuries. The shape, color, flavor and shelf life of fruits to determine their value. In apples is now a red blush appreciated. In time the trees blossom as beautiful as ornamentals.
Apple - tree form
Of apple (Malus domestica), various shapes of trees for sale, from the small remaining core to majestic trees burgeoning high. For small gardens are also suitable espaliered forms.
Fruit Varieties are always grafted onto a rootstock. Which determines the rate of growth of the variety of apple or pear. Sometimes even an intermediate strain used.
Growing weak rootstocks such as 'M 9' and 'M 27' ensure that the fruit tree bears small, and yet rich.
Tree Types:
The spindle is a weak growing root no more than 3 meters and is ideal for small gardens. First place a sturdy tree pole into the ground of about 2.5 m long;
An old-fashioned tall is often incredibly beautiful. But beautiful is not always practical. So it takes a lot of high pedigree space, up to 15 sqm. The first branches are also 2 m above the ground. For harvesting and pruning is therefore a ladder.
The shrub (stem of 50 cm height) and the half tribe (tribe of 1 to 1.20 m high) are intermediate forms. These tree types have quite a lot of space, but less than a tall.
Apple - breeds
When choosing the breed characteristics particular play a role, with the fruit have to do. Is it an eating apple puree or apple?
A second point to consider is the durability. Summer apples such as 'James Grieve' can only be stored for several weeks. In store apples such as 'Boskoop' is that a few months.
A typical apple summer (August), 'James Grieve'.
Keep Baar 'Alkmene, early September.
Good storage apples 'Elstar' and 'Cox Orange Pippin'.
'Jonagold' (harvest: October preservable to February).
If the old-fashioned apple purée bewaarras' Boskoop '(better known as "Goudreinette') are still appreciated.
Old-fashioned varieties
Apple varieties with names like "Silk Singlet ',' Sterappel" Double Bellefleur 'and' Groninger Kroon 'appeal to the imagination. They often thrive well without much care. The races are for the true enthusiast. The fruits are often a characteristic flavor.
Pollination
The flowers of fruit trees to be pollinated. Otherwise they have no fruit. At least two trees for pollination of the same kind of need, therefore, two apple trees. They may be different from race, as long as they bloom simultaneously. Why are ornamental apples for pollination of apple consumption. The best pollinators are Malus' Golden Hornet 'and' Professor. Sprenger. Apples are decorative enough in residential areas.
Tip! In the past, apples are preserved by drying them. Cut them into slices and place on a wire. Varieties that lend themselves include "Notary Apple" and "Keulemans".
Pears
Rootstock for pear (Pyrus communis) is mainly 'Kwee MA' and 'Quince MC. But even with a weak rootstock grow stronger pears than apples. Tall with a 'hybrid' as rootstock has a narrower crown than apples. Pears Keep away from heat and shelter.
An attractive variety is 'Conference' already in the third year after planting in late August / early September to give a modest harvest. The advantage of this pear is that the 'Conference' without pollination fruit. Pollinated fruits, however, have a larger and more beautiful shape.
As summer variety is 'Bonne Louise d'Avranches' recommended. Four days after picking the fruit is ripe.
Good pears are "St. Remy 'and' Gieser Wildeman '.
Tip! A pear is ripe to eat the flesh in the stem shrinks a bit.
apple tree pruning
pruning an apple tree
Apple: Scientific name: Malus domestica.
Family of the Rosaceae (rose family) and related to the peer.
Origin: Europe and West Asia
Some species:
Alkmene, Court-Pendu Rouge, Delcorf, Discovery, Ecolette Godivert, Grenadier, Gris Braibant, Holsteiner Cox, Jacques Lebel, James Grieve, Joseph Musch, la paix, Lena, Otava, Pilot, Pinova, Radoux, Rajka, Reanda, Reglindis, Reinette, Relinda, Rewena, Rubinola, Rubin Step, Santana, Boskoop, Sterappel, Vanda, ...
Flowering and pollination:
Is mainly pollinated by insects. Optimal cross-fertilization that gives many fruits and thicker.
Note: steady production of pollen is primordial for a good fertilization.
Good pollinators are enumerable hard as this really depends on the species planted (s)!
Example: Boskoop ---> pollinator than Alkmene, Delcorf, Discovery, Winston ...
Let bulbs generally have less of frost has good chances of success more
fruits.
Harvest:
Fruits ripen from August to October off depending on the species.
Method of planting:
stock options are low, half-standard and tall.
possibility espaliered forms e.d.
Rootstock:
Stem and half tall (this is mainly used for seedlings). Some rootstock types: M9, M26, MM106, MM111, M2, ... Depending on the rootstock weak to obtain a higher rate. Shows like this often need for some
resistances.
Location:
A sunny spot to partial shade is good for the apple tree.
Respect a north - south direction for maximum light in the crown.
Soil: slightly acid soils are well tolerated, loamy soil is therefore ideal.
The planting:
And this can occur from November to March. Always keep account of possible frost periods.
If you purchase 2 year old container trees, there are on the whole system a few branches on which we are best pruned back to a maximum of 20 cm and 15 cm for the central leader of the leaders.
Let your first gesteltak start at a distance of at least 1 meter (half standard / tall)
Later hanging fruit will not hang to the ground. Then head up the second and third gesteltak with a minimum of 20 cm provide constructive.
We do this to avoid tearing especially when fruiting. The weight can also greatly
increase at that time.
deflect but can not give faster flower.
Rings of the bark:
This is an issue for older trees that have to be turned into flowering!
Period plays a huge role, it is best to do this also in the first 14 days of July.
How do we proceed?
We take a disinfected pruning knife and cut a strip to the desired height of 5 cm around the tree and remove the bark completely.
What happens in the tree?
The normally assimilates to the roots draw near, as it were to accumulate in the crown now, and go
inevitably make flower buds.
Caution: Never get your fingers on the wound! The wound may optionally afgesmeerd with grafting wax, but given the timing is not necessary.
The real hand carving, will turn itself to branches.
Carving the bark:
How do we proceed?
In mid March a notch applied just above a dormant eye. You may be up to 5 mm deep cutting, which the sap to the crown stops and the branch to start shooting. Layers (jargon) are thus aangepord for espaliered forms.
Reversed, it also works (carving down a branch) for assimilates in the branch store. On this kerfplaatsen buds will arise. But do we do this around the end of April.
Distance:
Respect the spacing depending on the strain selection.
---> Keep this in account espaliered forms. Cable, usually branched, asymmetric form, suspended boom, palmette, ...
- Low strain: 1.5 to 3 meters away.
- Half tribe: go to 7 meters spacing.
- Standard: go to 12 meters spacing.
Pruning: is from December to March.
pay particular attention:
dead branches ---> prune.
steep branches ---> prune or wedge with softwood
branches that cross ---> prune (barns v / d branches leads to wounds ---> disease).
to remove the central leader converging branches.
long suckers with little buttons -> prune.
down fruit growing timber ---> Delete ---> get no sun!
pruning always with one eye facing out (crown) and the air and light to the chance in the
crown.
Apple: Scientific name: Malus domestica.
Family of the Rosaceae (rose family) and related to the peer.
Origin: Europe and West Asia
Some species:
Alkmene, Court-Pendu Rouge, Delcorf, Discovery, Ecolette Godivert, Grenadier, Gris Braibant, Holsteiner Cox, Jacques Lebel, James Grieve, Joseph Musch, la paix, Lena, Otava, Pilot, Pinova, Radoux, Rajka, Reanda, Reglindis, Reinette, Relinda, Rewena, Rubinola, Rubin Step, Santana, Boskoop, Sterappel, Vanda, ...
Flowering and pollination:
Is mainly pollinated by insects. Optimal cross-fertilization that gives many fruits and thicker.
Note: steady production of pollen is primordial for a good fertilization.
Good pollinators are enumerable hard as this really depends on the species planted (s)!
Example: Boskoop ---> pollinator than Alkmene, Delcorf, Discovery, Winston ...
Let bulbs generally have less of frost has good chances of success more
fruits.
Harvest:
Fruits ripen from August to October off depending on the species.
Method of planting:
stock options are low, half-standard and tall.
possibility espaliered forms e.d.
Rootstock:
Stem and half tall (this is mainly used for seedlings). Some rootstock types: M9, M26, MM106, MM111, M2, ... Depending on the rootstock weak to obtain a higher rate. Shows like this often need for some
resistances.
Location:
A sunny spot to partial shade is good for the apple tree.
Respect a north - south direction for maximum light in the crown.
Soil: slightly acid soils are well tolerated, loamy soil is therefore ideal.
The planting:
And this can occur from November to March. Always keep account of possible frost periods.
If you purchase 2 year old container trees, there are on the whole system a few branches on which we are best pruned back to a maximum of 20 cm and 15 cm for the central leader of the leaders.
Let your first gesteltak start at a distance of at least 1 meter (half standard / tall)
Later hanging fruit will not hang to the ground. Then head up the second and third gesteltak with a minimum of 20 cm provide constructive.
We do this to avoid tearing especially when fruiting. The weight can also greatly
increase at that time.
deflect but can not give faster flower.
Rings of the bark:
This is an issue for older trees that have to be turned into flowering!
Period plays a huge role, it is best to do this also in the first 14 days of July.
How do we proceed?
We take a disinfected pruning knife and cut a strip to the desired height of 5 cm around the tree and remove the bark completely.
What happens in the tree?
The normally assimilates to the roots draw near, as it were to accumulate in the crown now, and go
inevitably make flower buds.
Caution: Never get your fingers on the wound! The wound may optionally afgesmeerd with grafting wax, but given the timing is not necessary.
The real hand carving, will turn itself to branches.
Carving the bark:
How do we proceed?
In mid March a notch applied just above a dormant eye. You may be up to 5 mm deep cutting, which the sap to the crown stops and the branch to start shooting. Layers (jargon) are thus aangepord for espaliered forms.
Reversed, it also works (carving down a branch) for assimilates in the branch store. On this kerfplaatsen buds will arise. But do we do this around the end of April.
Distance:
Respect the spacing depending on the strain selection.
---> Keep this in account espaliered forms. Cable, usually branched, asymmetric form, suspended boom, palmette, ...
- Low strain: 1.5 to 3 meters away.
- Half tribe: go to 7 meters spacing.
- Standard: go to 12 meters spacing.
Pruning: is from December to March.
pay particular attention:
dead branches ---> prune.
steep branches ---> prune or wedge with softwood
branches that cross ---> prune (barns v / d branches leads to wounds ---> disease).
to remove the central leader converging branches.
long suckers with little buttons -> prune.
down fruit growing timber ---> Delete ---> get no sun!
pruning always with one eye facing out (crown) and the air and light to the chance in the
crown.
Friday, August 26, 2011
strawberries growth
strawberries grown in pots or outdoors
strawberries
No fun fruit crop for the garden or the strawberry (Fragaria ananassa). If only one fruit of the strawberry perennials. All other species are shrubs or trees, woody plants known. In the past they were much like (fruit) grown nurseries, between the rows of trees or shrubs. This already indicates that they tolerate some shade.
Tip! With strawberries in the spring under a tunnel of translucent plastic to grow, the crop considerably earlier. Such temporary protection also prevents bird damage.
outdoors
Work for planting compost through the soil and buy healthy (= approved) plant material. The most common varieties bear once a year. For the garden or in pots are races all summer wear, however, as appealing. If strawberries in March-April are planted, they will bear fruit until the following year, except for two-year seedlings. Who does not suffer from the weeds will have strawberries, explains before planting black plastic on the ground. Make a small hole at the place where the strawberry is planted. Except that the black plastic prevents weed growth, it also keeps moisture and heat.
Straw between the strawberry plants have the same effect and also keeps the fruit clean. If strawberries are planted in rows, 60 to 70 cm between the rows needed. In the row is 35 to 40 cm is sufficient. Good, once bearing varieties are 'Elsanta', 'Elvira' and 'Korona'. A breed is known for supporting 'Ostara'. New varieties are 'Rapella' and 'Selva'. They bear fruit between July and October and bloom simultaneously
Tip! Highly recommended for pots and garden plants, the woodland strawberry Fragaria vesca 'Alexandria'. This is considered to ornamental growers and perennials grown. "Alexandria" is not wearing spurs and aromatic, fairly large fruit between May and November.
in pots
Strawberries do well in pots. Purpose by bearing varieties like 'Ostara', 'Rapella' and 'Selva' is most appropriate.
The strawberry is light, moist and humus rich soil.
Prune branches away, give organic food in moderation.
Fresh strawberries are best served and uncooled; custody as jams, juices, frozen or alcohol.
strawberries
No fun fruit crop for the garden or the strawberry (Fragaria ananassa). If only one fruit of the strawberry perennials. All other species are shrubs or trees, woody plants known. In the past they were much like (fruit) grown nurseries, between the rows of trees or shrubs. This already indicates that they tolerate some shade.
Tip! With strawberries in the spring under a tunnel of translucent plastic to grow, the crop considerably earlier. Such temporary protection also prevents bird damage.
outdoors
Work for planting compost through the soil and buy healthy (= approved) plant material. The most common varieties bear once a year. For the garden or in pots are races all summer wear, however, as appealing. If strawberries in March-April are planted, they will bear fruit until the following year, except for two-year seedlings. Who does not suffer from the weeds will have strawberries, explains before planting black plastic on the ground. Make a small hole at the place where the strawberry is planted. Except that the black plastic prevents weed growth, it also keeps moisture and heat.
Straw between the strawberry plants have the same effect and also keeps the fruit clean. If strawberries are planted in rows, 60 to 70 cm between the rows needed. In the row is 35 to 40 cm is sufficient. Good, once bearing varieties are 'Elsanta', 'Elvira' and 'Korona'. A breed is known for supporting 'Ostara'. New varieties are 'Rapella' and 'Selva'. They bear fruit between July and October and bloom simultaneously
Tip! Highly recommended for pots and garden plants, the woodland strawberry Fragaria vesca 'Alexandria'. This is considered to ornamental growers and perennials grown. "Alexandria" is not wearing spurs and aromatic, fairly large fruit between May and November.
in pots
Strawberries do well in pots. Purpose by bearing varieties like 'Ostara', 'Rapella' and 'Selva' is most appropriate.
The strawberry is light, moist and humus rich soil.
Prune branches away, give organic food in moderation.
Fresh strawberries are best served and uncooled; custody as jams, juices, frozen or alcohol.
Strawberry and berry
Use and supply of strawberries and berries
Strawberries and berry Flandria are environmentally friendly grown and carefully picked carefully packaged. They get a custom fertilizer and irrigation, thereby sparing the fruits are firmer and have a rich flavor.
use
The contemporary kitchen uses strawberries in savory dishes.
Process strawberries in salads or file them with a dash of balsamic vinegar instead of sugar.
Strawberries, currants and raspberries do well in salads with crab or lobster meat or shrimp, as in salads with a dressing based on blue cheese.
Raspberries are a delicious garnish salads with warm goat cheese.
A light mousse of strawberries or raspberries suits duck or chicken fillet with vegetable garnish.
Leave fish in the oven braise with a wreath of gooseberries around.
Give cheese croquettes with a sauce or a cheese platter of honey with cinnamon, a portion of blackberries and a splash of balsamic vinegar.
offer
Strawberries: May, June, July and August remain the main season for strawberries. Until mid-June, the supply comes from the cultivation under plastic covers. Between mid June and early September, the Flandria strawberries grown outdoors in open as well.
Raspberries and blackberries: Their season runs from early June to a long way in November. In June and in autumn, the raspberries and blackberries from growing under glass, in the summer of protected cultivation under plastic coverings or nets.
Currants: either red, white and black currants are now available with the Flandria label. Their season runs from early June to late July.
Gooseberries: their season coincides with the month of June. Flandria gooseberries covered by the uniform size of the package. Gooseberries come in three varieties: green, green with a red blush and red.
Strawberries and berry Flandria are environmentally friendly grown and carefully picked carefully packaged. They get a custom fertilizer and irrigation, thereby sparing the fruits are firmer and have a rich flavor.
use
The contemporary kitchen uses strawberries in savory dishes.
Process strawberries in salads or file them with a dash of balsamic vinegar instead of sugar.
Strawberries, currants and raspberries do well in salads with crab or lobster meat or shrimp, as in salads with a dressing based on blue cheese.
Raspberries are a delicious garnish salads with warm goat cheese.
A light mousse of strawberries or raspberries suits duck or chicken fillet with vegetable garnish.
Leave fish in the oven braise with a wreath of gooseberries around.
Give cheese croquettes with a sauce or a cheese platter of honey with cinnamon, a portion of blackberries and a splash of balsamic vinegar.
offer
Strawberries: May, June, July and August remain the main season for strawberries. Until mid-June, the supply comes from the cultivation under plastic covers. Between mid June and early September, the Flandria strawberries grown outdoors in open as well.
Raspberries and blackberries: Their season runs from early June to a long way in November. In June and in autumn, the raspberries and blackberries from growing under glass, in the summer of protected cultivation under plastic coverings or nets.
Currants: either red, white and black currants are now available with the Flandria label. Their season runs from early June to late July.
Gooseberries: their season coincides with the month of June. Flandria gooseberries covered by the uniform size of the package. Gooseberries come in three varieties: green, green with a red blush and red.
Red currants Ribes rubrum
Currant Ribes rubrum or even red berry, or gin called trosbes
Or currants Ribes rubrum
Family: Grossulariaceae or Ribesfamilie
Delicious sweet and sour berries with a bomb of vitamins known as currants and berries also called cluster.
They are easy plants in Western Europe and their origin have little care questions. It is therefore highly recommended that any soft fruit or vegetable garden with small fruit would be missing. Bunch Berries are monoecious with male and female flowers occur on the same plant. So suffice even a berry bush to harvest. The red berries bloom from mid-April and are pollinated by bees and other insects. The bushes are also up to 180 cm high, making them an ideal viewing screen from plants and wind can form around your vegetable garden.
And shrub planting:
Buy healthy plants at least 3 strong branches constitution. Currant bushes of it is best planted in autumn or possibly in early spring. Plant a few in a row and a spot in full sun or partial shade. Plant the bushes a few centimeters deep as they previously were in the pot or open ground so they can anticipate. After planting the soil firmly and water well. Fit the bottom of a layer of straw or mulch.
In the spring you can prune the shrubs in four to five shoots and you may then also halved. Bring some extra food in the spring around the bushes in the form of eg a layer of compost. By mixing compost into the soil, the soil also suddenly able to hold moisture better and keep it currant bushes. Then you have these shrubs are not much work except the end of May to provide a bird netting so it does not fly with the berries. Red berries attract birds that simply delicious fruit also manage to taste. When planting translucent white berries with their fruits you will suffer less from bird predation a finding. The birds marks the transparent ripe fruits much less quickly. White currants are also a bit sweeter than red cultivars. There are also black currant (Ribes petraeum), but they are not good for your fingers to eat. They are very suitable for making preserves, jam or jelly.
The yield per bush can quickly increase to 5 to 10 liters. Such a rich harvest berries can be very difficult and only in the vegetable drawer of the fridge you can keep them just three days. Fortunately there are many delicious dishes that these berries can be used such as cakes, pies, desserts or for juice. Are there too, you know that after the harvest they can also suddenly freeze.
Pick the berries until they are sufficiently suit. The taste is much better. When all bunches harvested pluck off and discard the berries you post the stalks.
Straight hedge or espalier form:
Currant bush without any worry and grow, but many fans also plant them along a cord known as espalier or hedge straight shape.
The planting distance in the row is 1m, while it maintains three main branches per tree than the one that will tie wires.
Espalier advantage of this is that the berries ripen better and more evenly. In addition, they are easier to pick.
After harvesting the plants can be rejuvenated by the oldest or inward-growing branches cut away. Allow a maximum of ten sturdy shoots.
Diseases and pests of currants:
Birds: bird nets protect the harvest.
Rhopalosiphoninus ribesinus is a blight that causes leaves to curl or brownish red bumps on the top of the leaves. This growing tips often die off. Affected shoots can be best to cut off the attack.
Propagation of currants:
Red berries increase is fairly easy through winter cuttings or by a young shoot to lead to the bottom and possibly in shallow carving where the branch touches the ground. This place you then cover with a layer of soil so that even in the summer and nice and moist root formation can take place. In the following spring you can afsnoeien twig and plants at the desired location.
Some varieties of Ribes rubrum:
Most breeds have their origin in the Netherlands where they have been established since the year 1500.
The differences between the races are not very large only the time of ripening and harvesting are slightly apart. Therefore one often speaks of early and late varieties. By using different varieties to plant, harvest the spread between mid-June and early September.
Some early varieties (early June)
Ribes rubrum 'Esquire van Tets': Very early. Very strong plant with long racemes of sweet red berries.
Ribes rubrum 'Red Vierlander': Well-branched plants with high yield. Sweet and sour red berries on long trusses.
Ribes rubrum 'White Pearl': White very sweet berries in medium clusters.
Some breeds middentijdse (mid July)
Ribes rubrum 'Red Lake': red berries. Variety with a high production.
Ribes rubrum 'Stanza', by wearing long red berries.
Ribes rubrum 'White Grape': White berries
Ribes rubrum 'Witte Hollander': white currants with high berry production
Some late varieties (from late July - early August)
Ribes rubrum 'Around': Strong plants with large bunches of dark red berries.
Ribes rubrum 'Rebel Round': Large red berries on medium clusters.
Ribes rubrum 'Rosetta': Red berry with high production.
Ribes rubrum in other languages:
Dutch: Red berries or berries bunch
German: Rote Johannisbeere
English: Red currant
Swedish: Röda Vinbar
French: Groseilles rouges
Finnish: Punainen hollantilainen
Italian: Ribes rosso
Portuguese Grosellas rojas
Or currants Ribes rubrum
Family: Grossulariaceae or Ribesfamilie
Delicious sweet and sour berries with a bomb of vitamins known as currants and berries also called cluster.
They are easy plants in Western Europe and their origin have little care questions. It is therefore highly recommended that any soft fruit or vegetable garden with small fruit would be missing. Bunch Berries are monoecious with male and female flowers occur on the same plant. So suffice even a berry bush to harvest. The red berries bloom from mid-April and are pollinated by bees and other insects. The bushes are also up to 180 cm high, making them an ideal viewing screen from plants and wind can form around your vegetable garden.
And shrub planting:
Buy healthy plants at least 3 strong branches constitution. Currant bushes of it is best planted in autumn or possibly in early spring. Plant a few in a row and a spot in full sun or partial shade. Plant the bushes a few centimeters deep as they previously were in the pot or open ground so they can anticipate. After planting the soil firmly and water well. Fit the bottom of a layer of straw or mulch.
In the spring you can prune the shrubs in four to five shoots and you may then also halved. Bring some extra food in the spring around the bushes in the form of eg a layer of compost. By mixing compost into the soil, the soil also suddenly able to hold moisture better and keep it currant bushes. Then you have these shrubs are not much work except the end of May to provide a bird netting so it does not fly with the berries. Red berries attract birds that simply delicious fruit also manage to taste. When planting translucent white berries with their fruits you will suffer less from bird predation a finding. The birds marks the transparent ripe fruits much less quickly. White currants are also a bit sweeter than red cultivars. There are also black currant (Ribes petraeum), but they are not good for your fingers to eat. They are very suitable for making preserves, jam or jelly.
The yield per bush can quickly increase to 5 to 10 liters. Such a rich harvest berries can be very difficult and only in the vegetable drawer of the fridge you can keep them just three days. Fortunately there are many delicious dishes that these berries can be used such as cakes, pies, desserts or for juice. Are there too, you know that after the harvest they can also suddenly freeze.
Pick the berries until they are sufficiently suit. The taste is much better. When all bunches harvested pluck off and discard the berries you post the stalks.
Straight hedge or espalier form:
Currant bush without any worry and grow, but many fans also plant them along a cord known as espalier or hedge straight shape.
The planting distance in the row is 1m, while it maintains three main branches per tree than the one that will tie wires.
Espalier advantage of this is that the berries ripen better and more evenly. In addition, they are easier to pick.
After harvesting the plants can be rejuvenated by the oldest or inward-growing branches cut away. Allow a maximum of ten sturdy shoots.
Diseases and pests of currants:
Birds: bird nets protect the harvest.
Rhopalosiphoninus ribesinus is a blight that causes leaves to curl or brownish red bumps on the top of the leaves. This growing tips often die off. Affected shoots can be best to cut off the attack.
Propagation of currants:
Red berries increase is fairly easy through winter cuttings or by a young shoot to lead to the bottom and possibly in shallow carving where the branch touches the ground. This place you then cover with a layer of soil so that even in the summer and nice and moist root formation can take place. In the following spring you can afsnoeien twig and plants at the desired location.
Some varieties of Ribes rubrum:
Most breeds have their origin in the Netherlands where they have been established since the year 1500.
The differences between the races are not very large only the time of ripening and harvesting are slightly apart. Therefore one often speaks of early and late varieties. By using different varieties to plant, harvest the spread between mid-June and early September.
Some early varieties (early June)
Ribes rubrum 'Esquire van Tets': Very early. Very strong plant with long racemes of sweet red berries.
Ribes rubrum 'Red Vierlander': Well-branched plants with high yield. Sweet and sour red berries on long trusses.
Ribes rubrum 'White Pearl': White very sweet berries in medium clusters.
Some breeds middentijdse (mid July)
Ribes rubrum 'Red Lake': red berries. Variety with a high production.
Ribes rubrum 'Stanza', by wearing long red berries.
Ribes rubrum 'White Grape': White berries
Ribes rubrum 'Witte Hollander': white currants with high berry production
Some late varieties (from late July - early August)
Ribes rubrum 'Around': Strong plants with large bunches of dark red berries.
Ribes rubrum 'Rebel Round': Large red berries on medium clusters.
Ribes rubrum 'Rosetta': Red berry with high production.
Ribes rubrum in other languages:
Dutch: Red berries or berries bunch
German: Rote Johannisbeere
English: Red currant
Swedish: Röda Vinbar
French: Groseilles rouges
Finnish: Punainen hollantilainen
Italian: Ribes rosso
Portuguese Grosellas rojas
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Alternatieve Advent wreath
Advent wreath with alternative green homemade baubles
GREEN CROWN
Wreath of greens, and homemade baubles
A wreath is always in, but a wreath of nothing but greens is surely something very original.
Precisely because nothing else was used than greens, it is a tone on tone arrangement.
It was next to the green variety of materials chosen for convex shapes to accentuate, by tufts Hydrangea by bolmos and colored floral foam balls out there with a potato balls are removed maker.
A wreath can be flat on the table, but you can refine it a little on a glass dish to present, which gives more cachet.
We opted for homemade ornaments with colored floral foam.
Amenities
a floral foam wreath
Spheres of Asclepias
turned green Hydrangea Flower (Hydrangea), preferably with a little crackling (like paper) feel. If it is not too wet autumn, the white Hydrangeas beautifully green this time of year.
bolmos
poker fine wire
good cutting knife to cut your flowers
iron wire cutting pliers
any gutta Perka and toothpicks
colored light green floral foam (green tone on tone to continue)
a beads maker (kitchen equipment: for potatoes)
a variety of fine green material, nice because the bulbs are there than most into it: eg Buxus, eg types Euyonimus, Viburnum tinus, types of ivy, Osmanthus, Baccharis, Gaultheria shallon (salalblad), Pieris, Sarcococca, Spiraea, ... Make sure You have different shades of green, from light to dark green, but no shades of gray, or burgundy sheet. shades
toothpicks or skewers
Method
let your floral foam wreath in a large bowl of water to soak the wreath is completely covered. Without pushing on, in order not to break the structure, otherwise your flower is not enough moisture.
Put on wire Hydrangea. You can use fine wire used poker, or you can also use sticks to you with your flower stalk gutta Perka to confirm.
Tying up of Hydrangeas tufts usually happens as follows.
Take a piece of fine wire lever, insert it through the delicate branches of a flower.
Opportunities to make candles to handle
With a soft green candle in the middle
with four rounded green candles you through a poker wire under your candle on the wreath in place
middle of the crown glass lantern post
glass tea lights in place
glass candle holders on foot, in your floral foam punctured
long green candles that you stick a candle in your green floral foam between the sets
GREEN CROWN
Wreath of greens, and homemade baubles
A wreath is always in, but a wreath of nothing but greens is surely something very original.
Precisely because nothing else was used than greens, it is a tone on tone arrangement.
It was next to the green variety of materials chosen for convex shapes to accentuate, by tufts Hydrangea by bolmos and colored floral foam balls out there with a potato balls are removed maker.
A wreath can be flat on the table, but you can refine it a little on a glass dish to present, which gives more cachet.
We opted for homemade ornaments with colored floral foam.
Amenities
a floral foam wreath
Spheres of Asclepias
turned green Hydrangea Flower (Hydrangea), preferably with a little crackling (like paper) feel. If it is not too wet autumn, the white Hydrangeas beautifully green this time of year.
bolmos
poker fine wire
good cutting knife to cut your flowers
iron wire cutting pliers
any gutta Perka and toothpicks
colored light green floral foam (green tone on tone to continue)
a beads maker (kitchen equipment: for potatoes)
a variety of fine green material, nice because the bulbs are there than most into it: eg Buxus, eg types Euyonimus, Viburnum tinus, types of ivy, Osmanthus, Baccharis, Gaultheria shallon (salalblad), Pieris, Sarcococca, Spiraea, ... Make sure You have different shades of green, from light to dark green, but no shades of gray, or burgundy sheet. shades
toothpicks or skewers
Method
let your floral foam wreath in a large bowl of water to soak the wreath is completely covered. Without pushing on, in order not to break the structure, otherwise your flower is not enough moisture.
Put on wire Hydrangea. You can use fine wire used poker, or you can also use sticks to you with your flower stalk gutta Perka to confirm.
Tying up of Hydrangeas tufts usually happens as follows.
Take a piece of fine wire lever, insert it through the delicate branches of a flower.
Opportunities to make candles to handle
With a soft green candle in the middle
with four rounded green candles you through a poker wire under your candle on the wreath in place
middle of the crown glass lantern post
glass tea lights in place
glass candle holders on foot, in your floral foam punctured
long green candles that you stick a candle in your green floral foam between the sets
Alternative Advent wreath
Alternative Advent wreath with white poplar branches and cornu
Flower arrangements:
ADVENT WREATH GARLAND WITH ALTERNATIVE CORNU
Cornus poplar and red are often used in alternative Christmas pieces. Red and gray go well with Christmas greenery and custom baubles.
Leaves of poplar by florists often months before the Christmas spirit already drawn and stacked in boxes stored in the freezer. Just before the bonding they are thawed per pack.
Which you can make the piece
Of polystyrene 5 cm thick
Thick cardboard
Many abeelbladeren stalks
Red Leaves Cornu (best leave them in advance what to dry near heat)
Green spruce (preferably from a gray-green fir)
A large quantity of Christmas bulbs on wire (which is good for you both shiny and matte incorporated, from silver to gray)
A sharp knife
Pin or glue wallpaper paste
A beautiful red bolkaars
red, finely decorated board
Straw staples 3 cm
poker thread
eucalyptus branches with berries
How to proceed
You cut out your foam with a sharp knife, a cake of 30 cm.
It gives you a circular motion (type of yin-yang) from, from narrow to wide in the middle. You can do this drill with a sharp apple, or carefully with a paring knife. Conservation is at the bottom of the cake a few cm soil, because you must be pinned up in green.
Line the hollowed out cake pan with white poplar using glue or wallpaper paste pin (but then it takes much longer to dry)
Cut a circle out of cardboard with an inner circumference 4 cm larger than the circumference of your cake from poplar.
Glue here with glue stick (for cardboard takes more moisture) on poplar.
Cut pine green briefly and make up the opening. You need to just above the pine green cake out. Start your settlement on the outside and inside so the wide side of the figure. Put down the branches with straw staples 3 cm.
Alternate, now pine green, eucalyptus branches with berries, a few Christmas balls, which binds the wires together and who also put down with staples straw into the Styrofoam.
Keep filling at the same thickness, so you do not get holes.
Cut with an iron rod or iron wire scissor lever pieces 3 pieces of about 5 cm. Heat ends in a flame and put it at the bottom of your candle. Your candle is now three feet and can therefore safely dry your abeeltaart stand.
Prick your candle on the end of your filling securely.
Cut and tie branches Cornus this pendulum decorated board. Wrap the wire several times around a twig, leave about 5 cm of wire and wrap the next stick firmly. If you Cornus is dry, you will have branches in further drying does not fall out. If the Cornus still fresh, then you have the chance of sprigs of gimp your board falls in the dry.
Cornu Drappeer you crank on the cardboard circle.
Flower arrangements:
ADVENT WREATH GARLAND WITH ALTERNATIVE CORNU
Cornus poplar and red are often used in alternative Christmas pieces. Red and gray go well with Christmas greenery and custom baubles.
Leaves of poplar by florists often months before the Christmas spirit already drawn and stacked in boxes stored in the freezer. Just before the bonding they are thawed per pack.
Which you can make the piece
Of polystyrene 5 cm thick
Thick cardboard
Many abeelbladeren stalks
Red Leaves Cornu (best leave them in advance what to dry near heat)
Green spruce (preferably from a gray-green fir)
A large quantity of Christmas bulbs on wire (which is good for you both shiny and matte incorporated, from silver to gray)
A sharp knife
Pin or glue wallpaper paste
A beautiful red bolkaars
red, finely decorated board
Straw staples 3 cm
poker thread
eucalyptus branches with berries
How to proceed
You cut out your foam with a sharp knife, a cake of 30 cm.
It gives you a circular motion (type of yin-yang) from, from narrow to wide in the middle. You can do this drill with a sharp apple, or carefully with a paring knife. Conservation is at the bottom of the cake a few cm soil, because you must be pinned up in green.
Line the hollowed out cake pan with white poplar using glue or wallpaper paste pin (but then it takes much longer to dry)
Cut a circle out of cardboard with an inner circumference 4 cm larger than the circumference of your cake from poplar.
Glue here with glue stick (for cardboard takes more moisture) on poplar.
Cut pine green briefly and make up the opening. You need to just above the pine green cake out. Start your settlement on the outside and inside so the wide side of the figure. Put down the branches with straw staples 3 cm.
Alternate, now pine green, eucalyptus branches with berries, a few Christmas balls, which binds the wires together and who also put down with staples straw into the Styrofoam.
Keep filling at the same thickness, so you do not get holes.
Cut with an iron rod or iron wire scissor lever pieces 3 pieces of about 5 cm. Heat ends in a flame and put it at the bottom of your candle. Your candle is now three feet and can therefore safely dry your abeeltaart stand.
Prick your candle on the end of your filling securely.
Cut and tie branches Cornus this pendulum decorated board. Wrap the wire several times around a twig, leave about 5 cm of wire and wrap the next stick firmly. If you Cornus is dry, you will have branches in further drying does not fall out. If the Cornus still fresh, then you have the chance of sprigs of gimp your board falls in the dry.
Cornu Drappeer you crank on the cardboard circle.
alternatieve adventskrans
Flower arrangements: alternative Advent wreath making
Advent wreath different views:
BASIC THOUGHT
Peace and quiet, a dull sheen that remains after the departure of summer and fall does our desire for brilliance and color, the period before Christmas is the run through the creative and playful of the following proposed table arrangement we give our living room has an extra dimension of celebration and longing.
Advent, which begins the fourth Sunday before Christmas is an important period of Christianity in the church year. Traditionally we decorate our interiors with an Advent wreath, the wreath that I proposal differs somewhat from the classic pattern but is strikingly beautiful and harmonious. In this alternative arrangement, the circular movements (infinity), the crown (a sign of warmth and hope litter) and the four lights (symbols of the four Sundays) back to a rather playful way. We anticipate using as many natural elements and green ditto most notably bolkaarsen 4. Although color is purple for Advent in the church liturgy, is the main tone of this settlement contrasting green and red.
This seating arrangement in a flat bowl is made according to the multi-point principle.
SUPPLIES
Plant material
Berries and fruits: apples red trim, holly or Skimmiabessen, chestnuts
Green: green spruce, Skimmia, box, lavender .... Moss: kussentjesmos or moss from garden and forest
Other: Hydrangea Flower, Polygonumstokken, ornamental grass stalks in little bundle tied ...
For the crown: weak branches or vines of Clematis, Cornus ...
No plant material:
a large, flat dish and round trimmer
sharp knife green floral foam
skewers
Glue Gun
toothpicks
florist wire
DEVELOPMENT
Adhesive sticks in the bowl with the glue gun down (to the oasis is in place to keep). Cut the floral foam saturated blocks lengthwise so that by one inch thick van4 interested nations place with a little cutting and paswerk in shallow dish. The floral foam does not have the edge. The moss will later cover the openings.
Place the candles, to taste, or not at the same level on the floral foam and draw some concentric circles in the oasis.
Cut the green at the same height and position type by type on the created circles. Place the same hollow, cut Polygonumstokken.
Place the decorative red apples (one red varieties: Profusion, Red sentinel, Red obelisk) and fill the hollow Polygonumstokken go with green.
The greater the color contrast the more lines and circular movements reflect.
Then insert the greenery, the hydrangea flowers, chestnuts (advance toothpicks or skewers inserted). Make that everything fits and that no more green floral foam can be seen.
Place the rest of the greenery, holly berries and homemade little bundle of ornamental grass to full-scale outlet. Place the moss.
Put on the edge of the dish kussentjesmos (moss or other) so that everything fits well and there are no more openings.
To complete the arrangement to create a slight crown with branches not too heavy (eg: vines of Clematis) with a diameter similar to that of the bowl so that the crown just at the inside of the bowl beneath. This special operation is transformed into an Advent wreath arrangement.
A bit quirky and specifically, the Advent wreath, but worthwhile. The days are gloomy, the weather is not easy, it makes your living room a festive, this ring will provide them the unique atmosphere!
Advent wreath different views:
BASIC THOUGHT
Peace and quiet, a dull sheen that remains after the departure of summer and fall does our desire for brilliance and color, the period before Christmas is the run through the creative and playful of the following proposed table arrangement we give our living room has an extra dimension of celebration and longing.
Advent, which begins the fourth Sunday before Christmas is an important period of Christianity in the church year. Traditionally we decorate our interiors with an Advent wreath, the wreath that I proposal differs somewhat from the classic pattern but is strikingly beautiful and harmonious. In this alternative arrangement, the circular movements (infinity), the crown (a sign of warmth and hope litter) and the four lights (symbols of the four Sundays) back to a rather playful way. We anticipate using as many natural elements and green ditto most notably bolkaarsen 4. Although color is purple for Advent in the church liturgy, is the main tone of this settlement contrasting green and red.
This seating arrangement in a flat bowl is made according to the multi-point principle.
SUPPLIES
Plant material
Berries and fruits: apples red trim, holly or Skimmiabessen, chestnuts
Green: green spruce, Skimmia, box, lavender .... Moss: kussentjesmos or moss from garden and forest
Other: Hydrangea Flower, Polygonumstokken, ornamental grass stalks in little bundle tied ...
For the crown: weak branches or vines of Clematis, Cornus ...
No plant material:
a large, flat dish and round trimmer
sharp knife green floral foam
skewers
Glue Gun
toothpicks
florist wire
DEVELOPMENT
Adhesive sticks in the bowl with the glue gun down (to the oasis is in place to keep). Cut the floral foam saturated blocks lengthwise so that by one inch thick van4 interested nations place with a little cutting and paswerk in shallow dish. The floral foam does not have the edge. The moss will later cover the openings.
Place the candles, to taste, or not at the same level on the floral foam and draw some concentric circles in the oasis.
Cut the green at the same height and position type by type on the created circles. Place the same hollow, cut Polygonumstokken.
Place the decorative red apples (one red varieties: Profusion, Red sentinel, Red obelisk) and fill the hollow Polygonumstokken go with green.
The greater the color contrast the more lines and circular movements reflect.
Then insert the greenery, the hydrangea flowers, chestnuts (advance toothpicks or skewers inserted). Make that everything fits and that no more green floral foam can be seen.
Place the rest of the greenery, holly berries and homemade little bundle of ornamental grass to full-scale outlet. Place the moss.
Put on the edge of the dish kussentjesmos (moss or other) so that everything fits well and there are no more openings.
To complete the arrangement to create a slight crown with branches not too heavy (eg: vines of Clematis) with a diameter similar to that of the bowl so that the crown just at the inside of the bowl beneath. This special operation is transformed into an Advent wreath arrangement.
A bit quirky and specifically, the Advent wreath, but worthwhile. The days are gloomy, the weather is not easy, it makes your living room a festive, this ring will provide them the unique atmosphere!
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Advent Pieces of members
Advent Pieces created by members of the gardening advice floral Forum
Advent Pieces of Forum:
A scale
a little sand in it (decorative sand) instead of sand may also lichen
glass tealights
pinecones
small Christmas balls and decorate it
On flower arranging forum posted by: Thumb
Around a glass vase to make a lattice of branches. I have ivy vines and hops used. Then clamps / paste with materials of your choice! I chose white painted fern, black feathers, waxed cherries, mirrors, glass beads, Christmas balls, .........
Then the candle in the vase with a piece oasefix. I clamped the candles even more with a kilo of berries juniper!
Advent Pieces of Forum:
A scale
a little sand in it (decorative sand) instead of sand may also lichen
glass tealights
pinecones
small Christmas balls and decorate it
On flower arranging forum posted by: Thumb
Around a glass vase to make a lattice of branches. I have ivy vines and hops used. Then clamps / paste with materials of your choice! I chose white painted fern, black feathers, waxed cherries, mirrors, glass beads, Christmas balls, .........
Then the candle in the vase with a piece oasefix. I clamped the candles even more with a kilo of berries juniper!
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