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Growing Pomegranate in Garden and Pot. Tips, Pests, Diseases, Tips

Growing pomegranate trees will reward you in many ways as they provide us with delicious pomegranates. Scientific name: Punica granatum, genus PunicaceaeCommon name. Punicaceae. The pomegranate is a shrub native to southern or western Asia, which in ancient times was transported to the Mediterranean area where it has adapted very well. Tradition has it that […]

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How to grow peach trees in the garden or pots. Tips and problems

Peach cultivation is one of the most important in Greece, with table peaches accounting for 40% and industrial peaches or concentrated peaches for 60%. Other European countries that produce large quantities of peaches are Spain, France and Italy (mainly table peaches). Figure 1. Peach fruits Picture 2. Peach blossoms Greek name. Ροδάκινο, ροδακινιά (rodakino, rodakinia).

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Carrots

How to grow carrots in your garden

Want to know how to grow carrots? Scientific name of carrots: Daucus carota, οικ. Umbelliferae. Description of the carrot plant The carrot originated in Asia but is nowadays cultivated all over the world. The carrot is an edible species grown as a vegetable and belongs to the family Apiaceae or Umbelliferae ( Carrot or Parsley

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Chemical and organic fertilizers

Chemical and organic fertilizers (manure, compost, peat, green manure, rotating crops, soils)

Be careful about mixing chemical and organic fertilizers. Read carefully the following fertilizer mixing advices. Be sure that you won’t do bad instead of good. Be careful what Chemical and Organic fertilizers you mix Be careful what chemical (synthetic) and organic fertilizers you mix. Do not mix nitrogen fertilizers containing ammonium (NH4) with fertilizers containing

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Aphids

Aphids and grapevine phylloxera

Aphids are very well known insects to farmers and gardeners known by the common names aphid, plantlouse, greenfly, ant cow. Most aphids have siphons or horns and a tail. The siphons are conduits that produce alarm hormones so that when the aphid is attacked by an insect or animal, it causes the other aphids to

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Viburnum

Taking care of Viburnum plant (shrub)

Viburnums are popular flowering landscape shrubs that come in an almost infinite number of cultivars. They offer beautiful summer blooms, fall foliage, and evergreen leaves. For most viburnum shrubs, bloom times span from early spring through June, followed by attractive fruit and outstanding fall foliage. Fast-growing viburnums can be grown as either shrubs or small

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