Gardener Artois The elements of the culture of fruit and vegetable gardens by Brother Bonnelle lay, lay religious of the Order of Canons Regular of the Holy Trinity, said Mathurin, for the redemption of captives.
Printed in Arras, in Nicolas Michel Saint-Gery in 1766.
What makes the approval of a garden is to have several compartments lined with plants useful to use a home. Here are the ones that usually employed in the borders: thyme, sage, lavender, marjoram, lemon balm, hyssop, sorrel, pimpinella (aniseed) and strawberries.
it takes to have a garden and enjoyable start to surround the walls of 10 to 12 feet in height, so that the placement of dwarf trees. Without walls can not have wall bars that produce delicious fruit. They are useful to stop the wind from the north.
It improves the soil by the manure that comes from the farmyard, and the pigeon men. According to the author, horse manure excites the earth produce extraordinary vegetation. The warm, light and manure are those horses, sheep and pigeons. They are used in wetlands, heavy and cold. Those "rich and refreshing" are used in land scarce and small.
The ideal time to smoke the land is in winter.
plowing done in mid-autumn destroy weeds: the pelvis, the Vovelle, thistles, bindweed and quackgrass. After plowing
general, allow the earth during the winter. "If it freezes, it will carry and pour it over the manure: rain, snow and hail from to fall by dissolving the salt, which operates the wonderful effects thereafter.
At the end of winter, we should bury the dung with a spade about 4 to 5 inches deep.
"A master gardener who would have a smoking habit can not deny him that satisfaction. "
" The fumes of the earth often need to take a glass of water spirits in the morning. "
" is called a bell kind of blown glass, and a bell cast, extended from the bottom, narrow at the top, and ended with a kind of button. "
Plants home garden:
- absinthe.
(aids digestion, kills worms / her own cup in white wine is used in dropsy / stems placed between the bed mattress hunt fleas and bedbugs / similarly in the machine, they hunt the "mines" (moths).)
- garlic.
(is a condom in a time Plagued / crushed and mixed with fresh butter, it soothes sore teeth and helps digestion.)
- artichoke.
- asparagus.
(3 species: Common asparagus, asparagus from Holland known in Artois Marchiennes asparagus, asparagus called asparagus Maritime Gravelines.)
("of all vegetables, asparagus is one that has more good qualities, healthier and more palatable.")
- basil.
(leaves taken as a tea dissipate a headache.)
- white chard.
- the beet root.
(its root is eaten as a salad with onion, lettuce, wild chicory and pickles)
- good-lady (white and red)
- borage.
- The Buglose.
- nasturtium.
(confisent its flowers in the salad and serve vinaire)
- cardoon Spain.
(the flower has the same virtue as the calf rennet: it curdles milk.)
- the carrot. 3 species: the red, white and yellow.
- celery.
- chervil
(has the ability to cure gout, taking two handfuls chervil that it will boil in a pot of water for half an hour.)
- mushrooms .
(make a supply of manure from horses, mule or donkey, filled with dung / put away wet for a month / musty when this form of manure a layer of 2 and a half feet high and 3 width / take good care of the trampled in the drawing up of a donkey / 6 or 8 days later distributed on this layer, and pid foot, a good pinch of salt, ammonia and wheat bran that it covers an inch once dung manure / leave the layer in this state within 15 days using the old compost or good soil to cover the surface of the layer thickness of only 2 inches / 8 days later, the load of 3 inches tall lirières for coverage / layer is then left alone until the mushrooms appear / every time we collect mushrooms, you must be careful to put litter in the same state, give a little bassinure water on the litter if it is dry because of rain / when the layer of mushrooms gave the space of three weeks or one month, must be drawn from white, without waiting until it is exhausted. The white is preserved in a dry place. That's part of manure that can be found in the root of the fungus, which is a kind of thick crust of 2 or 3 inches, filled with a kind of velvety white down, enclosing with it a quality fruiting ("I dare say, the seed of the mushroom) / when it comes to white, you can use on other new sections that call for when" Wheel of fungi.
(the fungus enters almost all stews, stuffed themselves, can be fried and eaten on the grill. We actually put special cream. It is customary in the pudding and on top of a We call bread bread crust fungi.)
- the chérui.
- Chicory .
(must also plant some beets for bv accompanying els have leaves, which makes a charming look by mixing white with red.)
- cabbage.
(30 + species)
(cauliflower / cabbage / white kale Early Bird / Savoy cabbage kale / cabbage the ordinary / cabbage pancalier / Savoy cabbage / cabbage to big hill / cabbage turnip / cabbage red.)
Cauliflower is one we are most esteemed. We sow the seed of cauliflower layer mid-May. When it is lifted, it sprinkles. When the judge in a state of being planted, he must prepare an amended land and plowed it right at different times. We planted square in the distance 3 feet from each other. To prevent the lisette (the aphid) did destroy, discard the ashes over when they start up and go out of earth.)
( "When the cauliflower begins to make the apple, it should wrap its leaves and tie with a little straw to make it more readily acquire perfection of whiteness. ").
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