The IPCC report has fallen. It’s hot, and it’s going to be even hotter. This one is more alarming than the previous ones, I didn’t think it was possible…
Incessant stream of increasingly dramatic images on our screens… Who still denies global warming and its effects? Our Alsatian of the day Didier Helmstetter who wants to convert you to laziness in your garden, is not his first book, he released his cool method to make natural microorganisms work in your garden a few years ago. years, but there he has to adapt.
He released “The Sloth’s Vegetable Garden Hit by Climate Change”, subtitled “Climate change and the vegetable garden: adapting and seizing opportunities.” Because there is, even if it’s hot. After the analysis of the period 1946 to 2021, and bad surprise compared to that of the IPCC: the situation in our Alsatian gardens is much worse! Didier Helmstetter, with his view of an “agronomist who gardens”, gives you an account of the new complexities! However, nothing is ever totally negative: provided we innovate, we can adapt.
And even take advantage of the new deal! Such is the conviction of the author, for whom gardening as his father did is now suicidal… How to achieve this adaptation? This question is at the heart of this book. He also shows you his solutions on his Youtube channel did67 le jardinier, with nearly 50,000 subscribers. How to dodge the summers, with the recurring risk of heat waves? How to escape the excesses of watering? Without getting too tired, how to cultivate more, much later in autumn and until winter? How to install your vegetables much earlier in the spring? How to escape the frosts which, despite global warming, remain in ambush?
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For each of these axes, the author recounts his experience with the technical innovations he implements: various frames, thermal pads, cold greenhouse, sails, the most suitable species and varieties… and always without any tillage. , without fertilizer, without compost and without mounds. As a result, obtaining pink radishes at Christmas was a kind of challenge that he set himself to illustrate the new possibilities available to gardeners who are greedy and respectful of life. The book Le potager du paresseux hit by climate change, published by Tana editions, is 18€90 at your favorite bookstore.
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