In the central and northern regions of recommended cover winter garlic. This will give a good crop, especially after a winter with little snow. Using sawdust, humus, nonwoven materials. With the use of fallen leaves can be used for garlic. They serve not only mulch but also fertilizer.
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Thermal insulation in the fall
Insulated bed of garlic immediately after his landing, and 10-15 days after the onset of sustained cold snap. In the middle zone is about mid-November. Leaves poured layer of 15-30 cm. That they do not are blown by the wind, making fences, for example, from the pieces of the old slate.
The use of shelter from the leaves:
- well breathable and retains heat;
- garlic teeth are protected from frost;
- under the effect of moisture and freezing temperatures is the destruction of the tabular sheets, bifidobacteria and fungi transform them into humus;
- soil in the garden will be loose and moist - in such circumstances, the garlic grows well;
- It inhibits the growth of weeds in the spring;
- litter prevents leaching of minerals from the soil.
In spring the leaves raked light rake. They need to be removed from the garden, as they are packed and can cause zaprevanie garlic. Disposal of leaves will also avoid harming the activity of overwintered in a layer of harmful insects and fungi.
Litter can be collected in the autumn in bags and use the spring and summer as mulch for various garden plants.
It is impossible to warm garlic leaves of trees affected by powdery mildew, cherry leaf spot, scab and other fungal diseases. In order not to spread the infection, it is better to take out of the territory and bury or burn area.
Compost from leaves for spring fertilizing garlic
Fallen leaves - a good raw material for composting, which fed the garlic in the spring - in this period it is particularly in need of active growth promoters.
Features of leaf mold:
- It contains nitrogen and phosphorus;
- It is acidic;
- It improves soil structure;
- It is not difficult to prepare.
To make it fit all the leaves of garden trees. They can be used even if they are affected by the disease, as digestion with pathogenic microflora perishes, and disease in the garlic and various fruit trees.
Gardener's important to get a fertilizer as soon as possible, so we must remember that litter of different breeds of trees rot differently:
- alder contains the greatest amount of nutrients;
- aspen valuable in composition, but strongly stick together, forming thick layers, it is better to be mixed with leaves of other trees;
- Oak - a hard, large amount of tannins does not allow it to quickly rot, compost will often loosen;
- leaves of horse chestnut and evergreen garden plants (eg, Mahonia aquifolium), as well as needles decompose slowly, it is necessary to grind the raw material;
- litter walnut contains substances that inhibit the growth of bacteria.
Leaves collected in sacks - special garden, from under the substrate or garbage - the main thing that they were dense and dark, too much ram they do not need. Under natural conditions, the decomposition process takes 1.5-2 years. Speed it is possible in 2 ways:
- Stir litter with grass, add ammonium nitrate and cover with water.
- Add a tool for accelerated maturation of compost, for example, "Biokompostin", "Biodar", "Baikal EM1", "The Hobbit" and others.
Bag tied, pierced 2-3 times on both sides of the forks for ventilation and clean the shed in a dark place. Periodically, it is necessary to shake. Finished compost is loose and homogeneous structure with forest soil odor. It applied to the soil after 1-2 weeks after the snow melts. It is useful to add wood ash - 1 cup per 1 m².
Garlic can be used with fragments of young substrate undecomposed leaves or whole leaf plates. They mulch planting. During the spring organics will ripen in the garden, serve food and earthworms make soil nutrient. Special favor leaf compost brings in growing garlic on the sand and heavy clay soils.
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