• Never allow water wastage.

• Native plants living on rainwater, therefore, little or no watering required, except at the beginning to be watered so well rooted and surviving their first summer.

• With the drip irrigation system saves water and plants make better use of all that comes to be located.

• Water early morning or evening, never in the sun.

• The automatic irrigation controller to water at night can prevent the rapid evaporation of the day from the sun and wind.

• It usually little watering your plants. If you want to make a garden “normal” one of little irrigation must be “customary” progressively over several years.

• In sandy soils watered more often and less amount to less water is lost beyond the reach of the roots by infiltration. For sandy drip irrigation is ideal.

• The reuse of treated water, urban and industrial wastewater is being used successfully on golf courses.

3. Paid

• In Organic Gardening as using conventional chemical fertilizers because the nitrate contaminated groundwater.

• Excess fertilizers rise to a bud too cute and makes plants more susceptible to pests such as aphids or mites.

• In organic farming is payable with organic fertilizers and natural mineral fertilizers.

• In addition, native plants need little fertilizer.

• Make homemade compost recycling plant debris, like branches from pruning, mowing grass, leaves, food waste, etc. ..

• Even if you leave on the ground the remains of the plants themselves, shredding previously in the case of thin branches, serves as fertilizer, but preferably composted.

• In natural gardens leaving the base of trees full of leaves.

4. Padding

• The padding or mulching is to coat the floor of the stand of plants with different materials, like a layer of 5 to 15 cm thick.

• Materials for mulching:

- Crushed pine bark
- Pine Needles
- Peat, humus, compost
- Leaves
- Grass
- Gravel and colorful pebbles
- Black volcanic pozzolan
- Straw, sawdust …

• Mulch saves water because you have to work less on conserving the soil moisture, leaving less herbs and should not be tilling the soil.

5. Adventitious herbs

• Before planting or sowing till the terrain and hand out to all runners, bulbs and rhizomes that are.

• Some spontaneous herbs are beautiful when they bloom and can be left.

• Avoid using herbicides.

• perennial grasses that sprout again and again, based agótalas weeding with a hoe every time you leave, they will gradually weaken and there will be less.

• In fruit trees and mowing the grass is preferable to leaving the remains as a mulch to provide nutrients and life to the earth.

• The padding at the base of the plants with pine bark, straw, compost, manure, peat, gravel, etc. is another method to prevent weeds.

• A mesh is very useful for anti-weed shrub beds to rock gardens to gardens of cactus, on gravel roads, etc. .. Aesthetic finish is achieved by covering it with pine bark, with Chinese, with gravel …

• Cover the ground cover plants to prevent sprouting.

6. Lawn

• The grass is the main consumer of water in the garden.

• The high-maintenance turf, irrigation, fertilizing, mowing, profiling, airy, scarification, reseeding, control of pests and fungi.

• The grass is contraindicated in organic gardening.

• There are other alternatives to cover the ground:

- Ground cover plants
- Masses of shrubs
- Pine Bark
- Gravel and decorative aggregates
- Flooring

• If you’re not going to give it up, spends a small area, so essential to family needs, perhaps the central area around the pool and some other areas.

• Avoid deployment in marginal areas with steep slopes (slopes), better put on those sites cover plants.

• Choose a mixture of grass that is resistant to drought.

• adjusts to grass at low water to its roots deeper. Do not water so often.

• Less use means less lawn mower and trimmer for edges, so as to minimize fossil fuel consumption and noise emissions and gases.

• Lawns are also often treated with insecticides, fungicides and herbicides. Therefore best avoided.

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- Common name or vulgar: Ariocarpus.

- Source: South Texas and Mexico.

- Surprising spineless cactus.

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- 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.

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- Payments: not fertilized.

- Pests: insects.

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- 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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