• homepage
  • Crop soil
    • Essential laboratory tests
    • Soil texture and structure
    • Clay-humus complexes and cation exchange capacity
    • Other interesting data that can be included in a laboratory analysis - limitations of laboratory analyses
    • Soil acidity and alkalinity
    • Humus; formation and evolution
    • Soil fertility; is the apocalypse coming?
    • The microbial world and soil fertility
    • Rhizosphere, mycorrhizae and suppressive soils
    • Correction of a very clayey or too calcareous or too sandy soil
    • Estimation of humus loss
    • Compost production for a vegetable garden
    • The different phases of composting with a thermophilic phase
    • Weed management in the vegetable garden
    • Ploughing or no-ploughing?
    • The rotovator, the spade-fork and the grelinette
  • Fertilization
    • Synthetic or organic fertilizers?
    • The reasoning behind fertilisation in the vegetable garden
    • Examples of rational fertilisation for some vegetable plants
    • The problem of nitrogen assimilation in organic farming
    • Can vegetables be forced to grow?
    • Brief description of some mineral fertilizers
    • Tools for measuring nitrates
    • It is easy to cheat in organic farming
  • Biocontrol
    • Integrated Biological Crop Protection; first approach
    • Agroecology and ecosystem services in agriculture.
    • Vegetable garden and biodiversity areas
    • Permaculture; an example of pseudoscience in agriculture
    • Mandatory control of regulated pests
    • Anti-insect nets
    • Imports of beneficial auxiliaries
    • against aphids
    • Against whiteflies and scale insects
    • Against beetles, wireworms, cutworms, cortilian beetles, tipulas, ants
    • Against mites, trips, bedbugs
    • Crop rotation
    • Varietal choice
    • Solarisation and false sowing
    • Biocontrol plant protection products
    • Biostimulants
    • Other methods to reduce the risk of disease
  • Treatments
    • Organic or conventional treatments against pests
    • Some remarks on pesticides registered in organic farming
    • Copper and sulphur compounds
    • Pyrethrins
    • oil of neem and spinosade
    • The virtues of nettle manure under the magnifying glass
  • More

Introduction to integrated methods in the vegetable garden

For more information

Forumphyto website managed by a group of agricultural professionals : http://www.forumphyto.fr/

Euphytia : INRA portal, an encyclopaedia on the identification of crop pests and the most relevant protection methods. http://ephytia.inra.fr/fr/Home/index

APREL : Experimental station located in the PACA region specialising in "the implementation of experimental programmes in response to the needs of the regional market gardening sector". The website is freely accessible and "includes all technical information and trial reports, which are constantly updated". "Each year, the varietal and phytosanitary protection recommendation sheets are updated and widely distributed to producers and the entire sector. Numerous technical sheets on all vegetable plants. An essential website to follow the evolution of new varieties and biocontrol methods. https://www.aprel.fr/aprel.php

Opinions on the Permaculture Founders' Farm :
http://seppi.over-blog.com/2016/01/la-permaculture-notre-avenir-ecologique-ou-un-hobby-non-durable-pour-des-militants-de-l-agroecologiques-neoruraux.html?utm_source=_ob_email&utm_medium=_ob_notification&utm_campaign=_ob_pushmail

Conservation agriculture – website of the BASE association gathering motivated actors involved in the implementation of conservation agriculture : http://asso-base.fr/-L-Agriculture-de-Conservation-.html

List of pests on the INRA website : http://www7.inra.fr/hyppz/ravageur.htm

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