Furnishing the great outdoors is just as important as furnishing the great indoors. Choosing the right chairs and tables is essential, with the main drivers being the material and colours chosen. Vivendo has a great range of all-weather and sun proof surfaces – so you can focus on relaxing, while we take care of the rest.Potatoes thrive in cool, humid conditions. They are not well adapted to long, hot summers. Ground for them should be sunny, well-drained, and fertile. Work composted or well-rotted manure and or bone meal into soil prior to planting. Avoid fresh manure and lime as this encourages scab disease. For planting, “seed” potatoes are used. These are not seeds, but are small-sized tubers selected for the purpose. Small ones may be planted whole, but it is more usual to cut bigger ones into chunky pieces containing two eyes per piece. Cutting should be done one or two days prior to planting so they can callous over; this reduces the chances of disease organisms invading the tuber.

You may also wish to dust them with sulphur or some other fungicide. Plant two weeks before the average date of the last killing frost in spring (early to mid May). Space seeds 1 foot apart in trenches that are 4 to 5 inches deep. Trenches may be spaced 1 to 1 1/2 feet apart. Loosely cover with a couple inches of soil; do not tamp the soil. When plants are 3 inches high, hill soil up to them to form ridge along each row. Used Tires Jacksonville Fl Beach BlvdA second or third hilling will be needed as the tops lengthen. How To Get Spare Tire Off EscaladeNever hill potatoes when the plants are in bloom. Devon Rex Kittens For Sale LondonLateral shoots that produce tubers could become damaged, lowering your yield.

**note: it is a good idea to rotate your potato crop (plant in a different area each year - rotate between 4 areas) as this helps to reduce the incidence of disease, insects and fungi. Watering on a regular schedule will supply you with higher yields with fewer pest problems. During hot summer days, more water will be required. It is important that the plants receive adequate moisture when the potatoes are forming (approximately 6 to 10 weeks after planting). For early and mid to early varieties, harvest when needed for the table, beginning as soon as potatoes are big enough. If unsure of the size, you may want to pull away some of the soil by hand and remove some potatoes. This will slightly damage the plant, but it will continue to produce. For late varieties, wait until the tops have turned quite brown and shrivelled or when they have been killed by frost. Lift potatoes with a garden fork taking great care not to spear or otherwise damage them. Allow those intended for storage to lie on the ground in a shaded area for an hour or so to dry.

Once harvested place in a dark, frost-free place that is fairly humid. The ideal temperature should be around 45oF. Check potatoes every two weeks and remove decaying ones. Properly stored potatoes can keep for up to 8 months. Potatoes stored at room temperature are at their best for about only 10-14 days. If space is limited, you can still have a crop in approximately 3 cubic feet. Old tires are used to grow in. Simply place the tire on a well-drained surface (gravel is best). Fill with soil and place 3 pieces of potato, spaced evenly. When tops are high enough stack a second tire on and fill with soil. Repeat again for third tire. This method will give you a large yield of smaller, cleaner potatoes in a very small space. Crusty, scab-like lesions on skin. Plant scab resistant varieties e.g. Yukon Gold, Russet Burbank, Norland, Bintje. Avoid planting in soils where potatoes have been planted previously. Avoid alkaline soils (high in lime). Use only well rotted manure, not fresh.

They grow too fast, forming hollow centres. Soil has excessive nitrogen. Seeds are spaced too far apart. Decrease problem by using small whole seeds, maintaining uniform moisture levels, adequate but not excessive nitrogen and tighter spacing on planting. High nitrogen content in soil. Late variety might be delayed enough to prevent reasonable sizing prior to frost. Avoid fresh manure, use less fertilizer. Plants are stunted and grow slowly. Tunnels wind through stems, roots and on the surface of the potato. Yellow to reddish-brown worms are found in the potato and soil. Infestations are most extensive in soil where grass or grassy weeds have grown during the last two seasons. Wireworms will feed for 2 to 6 years before maturing into beetles.The major interior design exhibitions are seeing a trend in furniture that is becoming established:  Indoor-Outdoor furniture. A real phenomenon in decoration with enormous potential! The fact of today’s society is: the garden, like the balcony, has become a living space.

A place where you can both commune with nature and make the very best use of every little space, “outside” is becoming a room just like any other: cared for, comfortable, welcoming. But this conquest of the exterior for domestic use has only just begun... The budding indoor-outdoor market promises to be a gold-mine in terms of creation, materials and design - a definite area of challenge for outdoor furniture manufacturers. This market will no doubt have to undergo some refinement to adapt to the specific needs - and climates - of consumers around the world, but it has a great future before it... As the natural summer extension of the lounge, the garden now has furniture tailor-made for it. Even if it does look more and more like lounge furniture! • Resin wicker, with its incomparable qualities of resistance and durability, is unassailable in its position as the king of sunbeds and other loungers. A trailblazer in the field of colour in resin wicker (winner of the French TDM new product Grand Prix, 2009), Hémisphères Editions is still breaking ground, with an entirely modular indoor-outdoor collection that is particularly suited to small gardens (Equinoxe).

Continuing its conquest of the garden, the irrepressible Batyline is now available in colours other than the traditional grey and taupe. Shades of yellow, orange and red are alongside a soft violet and acid greens:  a real feast for the eyes! More importantly, the colours of these chairs and sunbeds are fast. • Whether it’s organic cotton, coconut knobs, woven hemp cordage from Jardin Privé… or furniture fashioned from recycled materials yet still stylish, the eco-beautiful trend is gaining ground in the outdoor furniture market. From the odd touch to entire collections, ecological is the way to go! One particularly successful example of a “recycling” style is the splendid furniture produced by the Spanish antiques company Arxe, totally authentic and attractive creations in recycled wood and metal which would look good in a real lounge! Hand-woven from abaca fibre, this spectacular “Pigalle” relaxation armchair designed by Kenneth Cobonpue is part of this talented Filipino designer’s input to the global ecological approach.