Wood ash contains a large amount of easily digestible nutrients and minerals. Therefore, regular introduction of fly ash for vegetables allows to achieve good growth in vegetable crops and a rich harvest.
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How to contribute
For each vegetable crops has its own application rate of ashes. For example, planting the seedlings of cucumber and squash, wood fertilizer is added to each well for 1-2 tbsp. l. Under the peppers, tomatoes and eggplant ash require more: up to 3 tbsp. l. per well. Before planting soil culture is carried out with the addition of digging ash (2 cups per sq. m). This tool is also used in the middle of summer. First, it powdered soil and then spend loosening.
Cabbage fertilized with ash before planting. For this handful agent is mixed with the ground and added to each well. When sprouts appear 2-3 leaf, it can be an organic powder. Besides the additional power, such a method allows to protect crops against pests, for example, cabbage fly or crucifer flea. Likewise treated radish and radish.
Planting onion or garlic in winter, when digging the soil life added fertilizer (2 cups ash per square. m beds). Additionally, the ash introduced with the soil loosening spring (1 cup per square. m). The same amount of funds required for the introduction of a beet, carrots and parsley.
A great lover of wood fertilizer is the potato. When planting in each hole should add 2 tbsp. l. this means. During his first hilling bring in aisle ½ cup substance on pog. m beds.
Fertilizing ash solution
Some gardeners prefer to make an ash solution. For its preparation required 1 l of water and 2 cups of the organic agent. The ingredients are combined in a vessel and infused for 10 hours while stirring periodically. Before use, the infusion is filtered and diluted with water (in the ratio 1: 10).
For spraying plants from diseases and pests using a solution prepared by another method. Sifted ash are added to water, brought to a boil and boiled for 20 minutes. The cooled solution was diluted in a bucket of water and added milled soap (50 g). Soap enable means longer dwell on the leaves and stems of garden crops. Spraying is carried out from a spray dry, windless weather in the late afternoon. With this solution the plants can be protected against slugs and snails.
When you can not use
Experienced gardeners have noted that the effectiveness of the ash increases if to make it with peat or compost. The opposite effect is obtained by means of simultaneously making a nitrogen-containing dressings, superphosphate, manure and bird droppings. In this case, in the soil useful compounds will decrease. Nitrogen fertilizers can be made only after a month.
Not suitable organic fertilization and for those crops that prefer acidic soil. When making its alkaline reaction in the soil increases, making it difficult to access nutrients to crops.
The main thing - to use wood fertilizer, obtained by burning wood or horticultural plants, rather than residues derived from waste, debris and painted boards.
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