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64 Valentin Valentin in the garden
Valentin peat pots
Valentin peat pots are used for sowing and cultivating seedlings
and nursery cuttings of VEGETABLES and FLOWERS. Peat pots are
decomposable and have high capacity to retain water. The roots
of young plants are developing faster and so the plants are more
resistant to potential attacks of diseases and pests.
Valentin peat tablets
Valentin peat tablets are used for sowing and cultivation of
seedlings and nursery cuttings of VEGETABLES and FLOWERS.
USAGE. Before the use the tablets should not be soaked, but
moistened on a platter or some other flat surface. The moistening
is finished when the tablet grows to the height of approximately
3 cm. In the tablet, prepared in this way, a nursery cutting or
seed is inserted. Because the tablet contains a fertiliser with
microelements, the seedling needs no more fertilisation until
the transplantation. The tablets should be placed in a bright and
warm place (approx. 22°C), not on direct sun, and should be
watered regularly. When there are small roots coming through
the tablet, the seedlings should be transplanted. The seedlings
should be transplanted together with the tablet because in this
way, the root system has no injuries.
Valentin Envirofleece (winter, summer)
The Envirofleece protects the plants from frosts and temperature
changes, storms, strong rain, and hail. It prevents the soil from
drying out too fast. It also protects the covered plants against the
attacks of pests. The equated microclimate under the Envirofleece
enables an earlier sowing, stronger growth, and earlier
development of plants in spring. In winter, it enables a longer
growing period and overwintering. The plants are well protected.
The harvest is better!
The garden year
JANUARY
A sowing plan should be made in which, besides vegetables, also herbs and flowers are
considered. The lawn should be fertilised over the snow blanket because with the snow
melting, nutritional substances will also trickle into the soil. Pot plants in the house should
be watered and fertilised modestly because they are resting in winter, as well.
FEBRUARY
On a warm place, early cabbage, celery, cauliflower, early lettuce, tomato, pepper, aubergine
etc. can be sown. Towards the end of the month, we can start with the pruning of fruit
trees. All pruned branches which are as thick as a pencil and bigger, should be protected
with graft resin which is also used for covering and protecting the wounds and clefts on
the tree bark. Bulbous begonias are those among the flower bulbs which should be “germinated”.
MARCH
In the hot bed, early lettuce, tomato, red pepper, celery, cauliflower, cabbage, kale etc.
should be sown, and outdoor, peas, parsley, carrots, lettuce, kohlrabi etc. Sowings in the
open air should be covered with a garden tissue. The place for compost should be prepared
in the half-shadow and the compost enhancer should be prepared, as well. Fruit
trees should be fertilised under the treetop where the roots which are getting nutritional
substances from the soil are situated. Furthermore, rhododendrons and coniferous trees
should be fertilised. We should rake up the garden lawn and fertilise it. Flower bulbs for
the summer and autumn flowering, as well as roses, should be planted. Pot plants should
be transplanted.
APRIL
Beetroot, lettuce, radish, carrot, parsley, and annual flowers should be sown. Onion and
potato should be planted. Crops should be protected from the cold with Valentin Envirofleece.
The garden lawn should be ventilated, raked up, and fertilised. The soil should
be prepared for a new lawn which is going to be sown in May. Rhododendrons, coniferous
trees, decorative bulbous plants, and other decorative plants should be planted. Pot
plants should be transplanted and balcony flowers planted.
MAY
Beans should be planted into a warm soil on a sunny area. Broccoli, chinese cabbage, tomato,
pepper, cucumbers, pumpkins, marrows, cabbage, celery etc. should be transplanted
into the open air. Balcony plants should be planted on the balconies, window shelves,
terraces, and flower beds. Make sure that the garden lawn is doing well; it should be raked
up, ventilated, the weeds and moss destroyed, and fertilised. For sowing the lawn suitable
grass mixture should be used!
JUNE
On the garden beds where we harvested the first crops, the plants for green fertilisation
can be sown. Among the vegetables, broccoli, kale, turnip, carrot, parsley, radish, summer
white radish, beetroot, chicory, and kidney bean should be planted and transplanted, and
near the end of the month, also endive. Biennial flowers should be sown. The lawn should
be regularly mown, fertilised, and watered in dry weather. Trees, decorative plants, balcony
flowers, and pot plants should be further fertilised.
JULY and AUGUST
Winter radish, turnip, kohlrabi, radish, spinach, chicory, and chinese cabbage should be
sown, and in August, also winter lettuce, chard, and corn salad. Strawberries should be
planted and vegetables, trees, lawn, and pot plants further fertilised. Roses should be
fertilised for the last time so that the wood is going to be well ripened until the winter. We
should regularly remove the dying-off flowers from the balcony flowers, as well as water
and fertilise them.
SEPTEMBER
Corn salad, winter lettuce, spinach, chard, and plants for green fertilisation should be
sown. In the beginning of the month, cauliflower and winter endive which we are going to
gather in October should be fertilised once again. Decorative bulbous plants which are going
to flower in spring (daffodils, crocuses, muscaris etc.), as well as bushes and perennials,
should be planted. It is once again time for the sowing of decorative lawn, because
the time of the summer drought has usually already passed by then. The garden should be
cleaned and the leftovers placed on the compost.
OCTOBER
Onion sets and autumn garlic should be planted. Vegetables and perennial herbs should
be protected from the cold with a Valentin Winter Envirofleece. Flower bulbs, which are going
to flower in spring (tulips, daffodils, crocuses, etc.), as well as bushes and perennials
should be planted. We should plant the graves and tidy them, as well as beautify their surroundings
with decorative bark. Th pot plants should be fertilised.
NOVEMBER
Fruit and ornamental trees and roses should be planted. The soil around the newly planted
fruit trees should be covered with mulch. The vegetable garden beds should be protected
with Valentin Winter Envirofleece and we should start cultivate sprouts (BioValentin seeds
for sprouting) at home. It is still time for planting the tulips, and in warmer areas, also for
planting other bulbous plants; roses and decorative trees are planted, as well as Amaryllis
into the pots. Pot plants should be fertilised and watered less regularly.
DECEMBER
Poinsettia and other pot plants should be regularly watered and fertilised, so that they will
beautify our holiday. Amaryllis can still be planted. Sprouts are cultivated during the winter
months to improve our health.
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