Have you had any vegetables this year? All that digging, mulching, watering, and you’ve harvested more kidneys than good things to eat? Well know that you can be lazy and be a good gardener. Here is the anti-guide for free gardeners by the Alsatian Didier Helmstetter, updated at the time of climate change.
However, nothing is ever totally negative: provided we innovate, we can adapt. And even take advantage of the new situation! 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. 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? For each of these axes, the author recounts his experience with the technical innovations he implements: various frames, thermal buffers, 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 gourmet gardeners who respect life.
Le potager du lasseux struck by climate change by Didier Helmstetter has been published by Tana Editions.
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