Organic farming and the abandonment of chemical fertilizers is catching on everywhere. That effectively replaces the feeding of industrial production? Experienced gardeners know that green manure. As they sit and at what time will tell on.
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Fertility of the soil depends on the quantity and quality of the future harvest. Due to lack of micro-nutrients of fruits and vegetables shallow and lose flavor. What is the cause for the loss of mineral substances:
- The same plants grow in one place. This is especially true of potatoes and greenhouse crops. Mestorapolozhenie them on a site is not changed for many years. The soil is causing great damage. The fact is that the culture they need to absorb the growth of the substance of the different layers of soil. In order not to deplete the garden scientists, agronomists have developed such a thing as rotation. Its meaning lies in the fact that in one section of the plant changes every season. This allows the soil to recover and contribute to a rich harvest. Lack of crop rotation contributes to the accumulation in the soil pests and diseases of the same type.
- It is dangerous to think that the plant debris and dried tops can be burned in the beds. By itself, the ash is useful for the garden as a natural fertilizer. Harm in this case the fire. Expanding fire on bare ground, you ruin all the unique flora and completely destroy its structure.
- Erosion. Can be wind and water. Direct person not at fault. But to prevent the deleterious effects of the environment, you can. On the desolate beds sow green manure.
To summarize. The loss of fertility responsible for most cases, the host portion. But do not give up. Everything can be fixed. The simplest solution to the problem of planting green manure. How to do it right will understand further.
The plants, which are called green-manures are high-quality organic fertilizer. In their properties are not inferior to chemical fertilizing. Sow them in the fall and, if necessary, in the summer between the rows of the main crops. As they appear when the crop is collected large quantities in the beds.
To enrich soil mineral elements and prevent the invasion of weeds, sow plants with developed rhizomes. They reinforce the soil and quickly sheltering his green blanket.
The most popular green manure are:
- cereals:
- Barley.
- Oats.
- Winter wheat.
- Winter rye.
- Millet.
- legumes:
- Soybeans.
- Field peas.
- Clover.
- Sweet clover.
- Lentils.
- Vika.
- Alfalfa.
- The annual lupine.
- Sunflower.
- Phacelia.
- Buckwheat.
- Marigold.
- Amaranth.
How useful autumn green manure
For organic farming is an indispensable product. In addition, the easiest and most inexpensive way to recover after the summer vegetable garden planting.
What the properties of green manure:
- Protect the area from such afflictions as the rot, scab, harmful insects.
- Loosen the beds.
- Increase fertility naturally, giving nutrients during digestion.
- Prevention of weed.
- Used as mulch in the form of a slant.
- Winter crops do not give a quick get away the snow, and to maintain a high level of humidity.
- Resistant to frost varieties sown between the beds. Such actions help to protect vegetables from unforeseen autumn frosts.
That it is better to plant in autumn
Planted green manure entire holiday season. Autumn planting have their own characteristics. Plants should be resistant to frost. Otherwise, they will die and will not be able to pave the way for the next season properly. The main principle of working with green-manures in the garden variety.
At one point one by one must be planted grass, belonging to different families. Here is an example, canola, is a distant relative of the cabbage. Therefore, to put it either before or after it is impossible.
For planting in the fall are suitable for almost all varieties: peas, mustard, alfalfa, oilseed radish, annual ryegrass, rape, vetch, nasturtium, clover, calendula, Phacelia.
Wet soil better than other approaches lupine saradella. Before the onset of winter use oats, rye and other cereals.
To avoid mistakes, and using green manures to improve fertility, and not vice versa, it is necessary to take into account certain factors. First of all, decide which crops to grow some places. They do not belong to the same family with their predecessors. Help to deal with this in the following table.
The most versatile precursor include phacelia from the family Boraginaceae. On garden areas related to it are not usually grown crops. Therefore sowing can be both before and after any plants.
How to plant natural fertilizers in the fall
For green manure is just as important to prepare the soil. Remove all weeds. They will interfere with shoots to gain strength, and can and does kill them. Seeds of weeds that have time to mature before winter, ascend upon the occurrence of the heat and block the spring portion. If there is a need to dig the beds to 25 centimeters in depth. Water the garden. The seeds are embedded in the soil at 2-4 cm.
When the grass has reached 20 centimeters in height, it is mowed. If there were flowers, do it before. If the seeds are ripe, the green manure naseyutsya yourself and become bothersome weeds. Dug up the earth with grass clippings. It will saturate the soil to rot and beneficial trace elements, preparing it for the spring planting.
Planted in late autumn mowed green manure in the spring. It is useful to leave their beds on the surface for a couple of weeks. In this way they help their same roots faster humus.
planting time
In greenhouses and open field can be sown green manure twice:
- Immediately after being harvested the crop and dry tops. Usually it is the middle-end of August.
- The second half of September the first half of October.
In a first embodiment, suitable species of fast-growing and gaining a lot of green. They need to get stronger before the frosts come. In the second case fit hardy grasses and winter crops (oats, lupine, rye, Phacelia, vetch, clover) .Posazhennye the winter plants in the autumn grow their root systems. And with the onset of heat begins to appear and greens.
Besides all of the above, it is necessary to take into account the level of acidity of your site. A large amount of green in this case will harm. The green mass is not have time to muck, and will turn sour. In such a cultural atmosphere will grow poorly, and you harvest is not exactly happy. In order not to spoil the plot of most of the shape of green manure compost heap.
Natural organic fertilizer enriches the soil all the nutrients naturally. Have time to time they mow. Appeared flowers can be a threat to your garden. The seeds are rapidly dispersed and germinate well. As a result, a new species of weeds will appear on your summer cottage.
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