Spring and summer for farmers - especially busy time, but the key to a good harvest is hard work throughout the year. Harvested vegetables, works on soil cultivation - it would seem, a period of rest. But at this time, is already thinking about next season.
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Preparing the soil for seedlings
Particular attention should be paid to the preparation for work on the cultivation of seedlings. The first thing to take care of the soil. Harvest stage for preparing the nutritional formula is recommended after the first frost.
It is not recommended to take the land from the garden or greenhouse, which already grow vegetables. After them in the ground there is a lot of germs that cause diseases of seedlings. To prepare the ground more suitable forest or meadow land. It retains its structural properties, it contains more nutrients it contains no pathogens.
If the soil has to be used with your site, it is best to take it to the plots where it is not growing vegetables, but additionally be treated soil Bordeaux mixture or a weak solution of permanganate potassium.
The soil for planting should be light and loose, so be prepared ground mixed with humus and washed river sand in the ratio 1: 1: 1. For every bucket of soil mix should be added to 1 cup of sifted wood ash. Such a mixture is better to prepare a fall and good dry freezout. Calcine it in any case is not recommended, as with the pests die and beneficial microorganisms.
preparation of seeds
Seeds, as well as the soil, too, begin to cook in the fall. Collect them only with high-quality plants. Hybrids do not retain their genetic properties in full, the future plant will not have the desired properties.
The fruits of the seed take only the healthiest plants. They have to be over-mature. After selection of seeds in a dried form and stored in paper sacks or tissue. For sowing is better to take the seeds collected about 3 years ago, they will be more matured.
Before incorporation seeds treated with potassium permanganate and soaked for 1 day, then wrapped in a thick cloth, stand for several hours at a temperature of 0º C. To do this, they can be buried in the snow, or placed in the refrigerator. This procedure will make the seedlings healthy and resistant to the vagaries of weather.
The timing of seed planting and transplanting
If properly carry out the work on preparing the soil and seeds, the result of painstaking work will be healthy seedlings. And that when the plant can be determined according to the table.
Rough terms of sowing of vegetable crops seedlings in the middle zone of European Russia Vegetables Approximate date of seeding seedlings Number of days from planting to emergence of seedlings age at landing in open ground (days) Estimated Date landing
These terms are defined for the North-Western and Central Russia. In the Black Earth belt and southern regions of vegetables are planted in open ground at 1-2 weeks earlier, depending on weather conditions.
According to popular menologion planted seedlings begin May 18th. According to the Orthodox calendar, this day is under the auspices of Irina Rassadnitsy. But the weather on this day in different regions may be different, and quite unsuitable for garden work.
Our great-grandmother to determine the timing of seeding and transplanting in the open ground used folk omens based on phenological phases of wild plants. For example, potatoes, onions, and tubers of signs recommended planting after bloomed wild thorns. This means that the soil is warm enough for these crops. Seedlings of vegetables is better to plant after bloom krasnoplodnaya Rowan. This is an indication that the soil is warmed, and the air temperature has become stable.
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