- Scientific or Latin name: Ariocarpus spp.

- Common name or vulgar: Ariocarpus.

- Source: South Texas and Mexico.

- Surprising spineless cactus.

- The Ariocarpus have the same shape and texture of rock, and blend very well with the soil in its habitat.

- They have thorns, and the texture of their skin allows them to reflect the hot sun, give them some insulation in the summer.

- There are six types of Ariocarpus. Example: retusus Ariocarpus, with white flowers; fissuratus Ariocarpus, pink flowers, and trigonus Ariocarpus, chocolate.

- It becomes difficult to find in the wild.

- Leaf: plants without leaves.

- Organ distributed tubercles in roset air, around the large underground stems.

- Flowers: diurnal, white, yellow, red or pink in autumn, in the center of the rose.

- Very slow growth.

- Light: abundant, if possible, under full sunlight.

- Temperature: summer needs.

- Humidity: as low as possible.

- Soil: The soil Ariocarpus choice quite shiny.

- Irrigation: once in summer and every 15 or 20 days in early autumn, according to the period of growth. Fear humidity, you need well-drained substrate. Stay dry in winter.

- Payments: not fertilized.

- Pests: insects.

- Transplant: every three to five years, or in a pot so the roots can grow.

- Propagation: by seed. Seedlings require a temperature difference between day and night to grow. Wait three years before tones.

- Ariocarpus yields require more than 10 years to flower. A graft on flowering Poreskiopsis achieved after three years, but manufacturers often distorted.

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1. Buy healthy plants. Note that the producer Cactus and other succulents, to reduce costs, make some phytosanitary treatment. Beware of:

* If you see a red area of skin may mite attack.

* If you appreciate the kind of cotton mealybug, cotton.

* If you take a plant from the pot (this will be worth when you buy small specimens) and the roots of white spots, can be a root mealybug. Do not be confused with hard water residue. Big fish when you can check the factory and go if you are infected, return, or not to buy there.

2. Check plants regularly throughout the year. For example, a worm or a snail can break a fast.

3. You can perform preventive maintenance or fungal pests such as woodlice for watering crops. One spring, one in summer and one in autumn. Employing a systemic product to penetrate into the tissue of plants and insects eating the poison.

4. If pests or fungi have been submitted, do treatment every 10-15 days with the right products.

5. plants will be sprayed in summer with the heat, partially evaporated, so it is recommended to do so in the afternoon and add some oil to extend the fixative for its action.

6. systemic product that is better to contact internally because they protect the plants and do not lose effectiveness with irrigation water is not entrained.

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How to prevent pests and diseases?

• Insects, fungi, bacteria and viruses preferentially attack the plants weak. Therefore, to prevent, there is nothing better than making them stronger and stronger.

• Buy quality, manners, fertile and the roots are not crowded.

• check if they carry diseases, pests or injury.

• Language species are more resistant to pests and diseases of exotic species. Use them in your garden.

• If the shade plants, plants in the sun. For example, Hosta burn in full sun all day and will be weak.

• Select the appropriate type with the characteristics of your garden soil. For example, the image below is the problem of iron deficiency (iron chlorosis), usually caused by lime soil combined with a vulnerable species. Therefore, in acid soil-loving plants such as Daisy, Gardenia, Azalea, rhododendron, Heather, Camelia, etc. ..

• There is a mixture of grass for the shade, others are far better suited to withstand trampling, to withstand drought, etc. Always choose the right thing to not suffer and fall prey to parasites.

• If your garden environment is within protected Seiridium fungal attack or a copy of the pine, macrocarpa or Arizona, do not plant this species, but others are not susceptible to Seiridium because there is a high risk of infection. This is a clear example of preventive action.

• Do not plant very dense. This causes the competition between individuals for space, water, nutrition and end of the weak and thin the plants, making them more vulnerable to pests and diseases.

• If the fungus infects plant roots have been destroyed, not to reopen the same on the same site, or if you do, replace the other land.

• It is a mistake to plant roses in the same place occupied by others for more than six years. Soils contain fungi and “exhaustion.”

• Excessive irrigation causing root rot and “spoiled” irrigation, suffer when they do not have a specific time. Also have to go thirsty plants.

• Avoid wetting leaves and flowers because they support the development of the disease. Irrigation at the bottom.

• Excess nitrogen is the most tender plants for insects, for example, mites (red spider) to increase their attacks.

• Collect and burn the leaves that have been attacked by fungi.

• Avoid wounds and injuries in the fall at around the plants as fungi as Botrytis, cankers on the trunk and branches, bacteria …

• Complete the tangled trees and shrubs by pruning to improve aeration and sunlight in the glass. This reduces the proliferation of fungi and other pathogens.

• disinfect pruning tools to avoid passing bacteria or viruses from one another crop.

• Some crops to scare off as a natural pest repellent. This is not 100% effective, but as a supplement to help. For example, a park or garden is surrounded by several aromatic sage, rue, rosemary or lavender, or between a common culture, Mint, Tarragon, Thyme and Basil.

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Trees should be watered when needed. This may seem obvious, not so for many people, when they have been repeatedly doused why.

Excessive irrigation causes several things:

Watering trees

• Choking and root rot. Under these conditions, is activated fungus that live in soil and colonize the roots, killing the copy of irremediable.

• That the tree roots to develop more surface and therefore does not deepen the search for water (which, if we had given us.) This makes them more vulnerable to drought. For example, in the drought of the early 90s has been deleted irrigation in public parks a lot. Results: The plants, including trees, used for watering often lose many leaves, there were deaths and severe damage. Waters soon and the tree will be more difficult.

Shallow and deep roots

• In addition, we do not need to spend water, a scarce commodity in many places.

How often should I water my tree?

That depends on many factors. The most important are:

• Type
Some species require more water than others. For example: The olive tree. Very resistant to water shortages, others not so trees.

• Size of tree
A small tree requires less water than large, because both have more leaves to feed.
Olive

• Time-year
Need more water in spring than in winter, because in full swing. Or when in flower, also consume more.

• Land
On wetlands, which store more water, need less rainfall and watering less to live. Conversely, the soil is very dry, sandy, where rain or water to drink and mostly lost in depth is not stored (think of extreme cases of sand on the beach). This will require more irrigation or rain in the first case.

• The environment in which they find
a) If the sun require more water in the shade
b) If more hot water ….
c) If more wind … more water.

If you buy seed from one or two years, will need watering until the roots abundandes and can be independent. See how the trees in our cities, as adults, the water does not, or only done in case of drought.

Therefore, it is best to water until the formation of the tree and from there, very little or even nothing. Although if you want to grow faster (eg, shade trees as soon as possible), you must water and fertilize more regularly.

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You can buy herbs in flower pots in the garden center or nursery and plant them directly in the garden, in pots or in the plantation. Another possibility for getting yourself to buy a packet of seeds and make them grow.

Among the spices, herbs and medicine there is an annual species (last one season), and other perennials (lasting several years). Some of the biennale.

The annual and biennial multiplied by seed.
Perennials are also multiplied by seed and cuttings, division and layering to kill.

If you buy a packet of seeds should be good.

1. Sowing seeds in the spring as the ideal time. What you can do:

* On the floor directly outside (after the last ice risk).
* In a pot, box or tray with holes.

2. Includes pot, tray or drawer newly planted with plastic to help retain moisture and water every day. When the seeds out, keep the plastic, but you have to delete almost every day to air out and not drown.

3. Rinse the plants are very trapped and transplations from seeds (pots, plates ,…) into individual pots. If sown in a tray of alveoli (with lockers), leaves of one seedling per compartment.

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In a previous post, we jointly evaluate the first consideration when put to work by planting seedlings, a process that must be done with care and love, as we see in the picture jardineria.pro.

To this day, as promised: what to choose for this season.

* Lettuce, a great choice because it is a fast-growing plants can be transplanted immediately. While the interior space is greater than in the case of other species, only a short time.

* Cucumbers, watermelon and cantaloupe, our friends and family waited anxiously, enjoyed at the table so the sooner we start the better!

* Peppers, feasible recommendations because they needed more time to grow, nearly two months, but worth it because each plant produces large amounts of paprika, and a variety of important choices when it comes to performance and taste.

* Tomatoes, inflatables. It is a joy when we make our own tomato transplants. Variety is usually offered for sale is good, but not necessarily the best. I recommend buying seeds carefully in shops or just a trusted supplier.

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• Many aromatic and flavor comes from the Mediterranean (hyssop, Lavender, Lemon balm, oregano, Salvia, Santolina, Thyme ,…) and need two basic things:

- Many of the sun.
- Soil with good drainage (not to puddle water).

• Herbs, as well as in the pot, you can plant them in the parterres regular geometric (photo) or a state park, in bed more informal.

• areas should be sunny and protected from the wind. Also, freeze-resistant species.

• Choose a location near your home or kitchen to be more hands on herbs. Ideally be in the window of the kitchen.

• Most plants do not be picky about soil, can survive and thrive in poor soil, and poor. That yes, as long as drainage is good, because plants are sensitive to excess water in the soil (Mint, but prefer partial color, wet soil). Herbs will be alive and well at pH between 6 and 7.5. If the land is clear acidic (pH <6), add chalk.

• You can plant any time of year, provided you avoid the biggest hot days of summer and coldest days of winter.

• Labra soil at a depth of about 25 inches to let loose and fluffy.

• Eliminate all perennial weeds as possible. For this, when you till the soil, collecting and removing pieces of roots, stems and roots that go. Delete them all very difficult because there is always a part of this body on the ground and then grow back.

• When planting add organic fertilizer (compost, peat, manure, etc.). Especially if your soil poor in mineral nutrients or if the texture is extreme, ie

1. Very sandy soil. The Matilla, peat, manure, compost worms, guano, etc. to help retain moisture in sandy soil and provide nutrients such as decompose slowly.
2. Heavy clay. Compost facilitate drainage in clay soils, heavy. If it is a very clay soil outside must also be organic materials, add the washed river sand (not force). This will complement the clay and soil texture will be more air to the roots through the pores between sand grains.

• If you want, when plants Herbs in the garden, you can create a blanket (also called mulch). Is to expand the base of the plant with a layer of pine bark, compost, gravel or other materials. Benefits of mulch are:

* They require less irrigation, as padding to reduce evaporation of soil moisture, ie water loss into the atmosphere is less.
* Exeunt fewer weeds.
* This is a decorative, better than bare ground.

• If you plant in a pot, pot or container, put the gravel, pebbles or pieces of pottery on the bottom and filled with good-quality substrate.

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In our country the possibility of space and resources to conduct a mini-greenhouse, we are in the right time to start planting our seeds.

Precisely because most of us do not have much space, we must be selective in choosing what to plant. Of course we will try to balance between the flowers and vegetables. Think about the entire process: not only where we have to plant the first seed, but how much we have respectively for the transplant.

Of course: there are plants that support transplantation but others are not firm, the latest example of root crops like carrots, turnips etc.La obvious reasons: the search for deep root out what makes the seed mill general.

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Who said the cactus was unsightly and can damage the beautiful decoration of our gardens?. Prickly pear, with desert and arid landscape, we come to outer space to destroy the myth that. Figure we see the portals of all plants.

Prickly pear is a perennial plant belongs to the cactus family. Opuntia ficus scientific name, indica, cactus comes to the arid regions of Mexico. In Spain can be found in the Mediterranean.

Has oval leaves and green, very thorny cactus traditional interruption, always avoided. Its yellow flowers, red and orange have a large number of petals and actually can be quite striking in any garden.

In connection with treatment, is used to grow plants under full sunlight, and in areas of low fertility. However, the substrate must have good permeability, so that the roots absorb the water needed.

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Ficus pumila is a creeping type specimen, which can be multiplied by apical stem cuttings or by simple layering. It is characterized by great strength, including in the family Moraceae.

This ficus is actually very simple to process, are used both indoors and outdoors. Specimens must be placed in a place with good lighting, but can last moments of partial shade and should not be allowed to dry.

This is very important in this case the risk, such as compost kept moist, but not positive excess water. You should water only when we appreciate that the substrate dry.

In the summer when they need more water, so watering needs two or three times a week. We must avoid the appearance of red spider, which is the biggest enemy. This is necessary to maintain humidity.

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