9 Review (s)

  1. Andrey GOLUBTSOV, Penza

    Often I hear that the garden and the garden are recommended to be fed with peat. And I have a swamp near the dacha. Can I go there, pick up peat and fertilize my site with it? Or does peat need some additional treatment?

    What crops are used for this supplement?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      Peat is often used as an organic fertilizer. However, when applying it is necessary to remember some of its features. Depending on the type of swamp, peat can be lowland, transitional and high. The highest content of minerals and nitrogen is noted in lowland peat, the lowest - in highland. In addition, peat has an acidic environment and is able to acidify the soil. It should be noted that freshly extracted peat contains a significant amount of organic substances (including phenols), whose presence is not always beneficial for plants. Therefore, peat is usually “weathered”, that is, they are kept in the open air for about a year. During this time, these substances evaporate or are washed away by precipitation.
      It is better to use peat as a part of peat-humic composts. Weathered peat (even the horse) is not badly recommended as mulch.

      However, in your case, before going to the swamp, it is necessary to ask the local environmental authorities how lawful its extraction will be: since in some regions many bogs have the status of specially protected natural areas.

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  2. Egor Alekseevich LOGGATSKY

    We produce a large number of potash fertilizers. A lot of them are imported from abroad, moreover, of very different types. Are they all equivalent in application? What types are preferable for summer residents and owners of personal plots?

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    • Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

      This letter gives us a full basis to continue the conversation begun about the peculiarities of various types of mineral fertilizers.
      Potash
      Fertilizers containing potassium are often called the main factor for increasing crop yields. In this element, plants need more than other useful substances. Sufficient provision of potassium accelerates the process of photosynthesis, increases resistance to various diseases, enables you to adapt quickly to unfavorable weather conditions, improves the taste of the fruit.
      Potassium chloride
      This fertilizer takes the lion's share in the production of potash tukov-up to 90%. Belarusian enterprise "Bela-ruskaliy" and two Russian companies ("Uralka-Liya" and "Silvinit") mainly produce this product. It can be of three main varieties: in the form of pink or gray-white crystals (the color is due to different technologies of potash ore enrichment) or pellets of the same color "palette", which are characterized by a slow dissolution in the soil, which ensures a longer action of fertilizers.
      Potassium chloride is a part of many complex fertilizers, but is offered by trade in a "pure" form. The potassium content in it is on the average 60%.
      For this fertilizer all the restrictions that have been given with respect to ammonium chloride are valid: the chlorine content adversely affects the development of potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, raspberries, red and black currants, strawberries.
      However, this deficiency can be overcome if one knows the features of introducing potassium chloride. Heavy and medium-heavy soils are best fertilized in autumn. Prior to the start of the new season, chlorine as a sufficiently mobile element will be washed from the ground by sediments and meltwater, while heavier potassium will remain in the ground.
      The process of washing out chlorine proceeds much faster on light sandy loamy soils, as well as on peatlands, therefore, the introduction of potassium chloride in the spring is quite acceptable here. But the autumn "complementary foods" on such soils may turn out to be useless - potassium will also leave with chlorine.
      Potassium chloride should not be mixed with lime materials: dolomite flour, chalk, lime. At the same time, this fertilizer essentially acidifies the soil, so on acid soils it can be used only after liming. It is desirable that after this, 1-2 weeks pass.
      The rate of application of potassium chloride in the fall is 10-20 g / mg. In the spring of this fertilizer, much less is required - 2,5-3,5 g / mg.
      Despite the "antipathy" of potatoes to chlorine, when planting, it is useful to add 2-3 g of fertilizer to the hole - one pinch. This culture requires a significant amount of potassium, and its content, as mentioned above, in the tuk we describe is very high.

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  3. I. GUSEVA, Sumy, Ukraine

    For me, no fertilizer is better than chicken manure. This is because, says a neighbor, that money is a pity for store fertilizer. I answer her: I just don’t need to spend money, because there is everything in bird droppings - phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium with magnesium and calcium.
    I use chicken droppings on all my beds and under the berry bushes. She noticed that plants react to such top dressing almost instantly - they grow like yeast, they form ovaries and fruits faster. Moreover, even a single feeding is enough. I want to caution beginners - chicken fertilizer has a peculiarity: it is a very vigorous substance. Fresh litter contains uric acid in concentrated form. It is very caustic and can burn both the roots and leaves of a plant. Therefore, never use it in its purest form.
    I have two recipes, how to prepare a valuable feeding from the chicken manure.
    I-th way
    Fresh litter diluted in water in the ratio of 1 l litter on 15-
    20 L of water. I try to water right after the rain or a few hours after watering. One plant leaves from 0,5 to 1 l. All that is left is poured into the compost pile.
    This method is good in that you can accurately calculate the dosage. There is a lot of nitrogen in chicken litter; if overdone, then grow one of the tops.
    2 method
    I'm hindering the liquid droppings with the straw, it's still in the poultry podstelena, then put it all in a compost hole and wait until pereperet. Straw in the pile heats up a lot, and from time to time I pile a heap with pitchforks. Usually last two months, and fertilizer is ready. I will sprinkle it in the spring under all the beds, and nothing burns. And if someone contributes already during the growth of vegetables and is afraid of burns, after the top dressing properly, pour the whole garden with water. So fertilizer will not be so concentrated, and from the leaves, if anything gets into them, it will wash off.

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  4. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    Soda is indispensable not only for housewives in the kitchen, but also for summer residents in the garden. For example, I often use it in my greenhouse to spray cucumbers. I prepare the following solution: 1 teaspoon of soda in 1 liter of warm water. I spray them with cucumbers - this is an excellent tool for the prevention of powdery mildew. Since I began to use this advice, my cucumbers ceased to hurt.
    Valentine

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  5. O. LAVROV, Tula

    I want to share a recipe for the preparation of a universal fertilizer: it is suitable for both vegetables and fruit trees and shrubs. Personally, I feed them cucumbers and tomatoes.
    How to cook
    40-liter barrel on 2 / 3 fill the grass without seeds (you can freshly weeded weeds, I prefer nettles and burdock). I fall asleep about 1 kg of chicken manure (goose, from ducks or turkeys, but it needs a little more - 1,3-1,5 kg per barrel) and 8-9 kg of rabbit manure (can be cow's). Next, I pour the barrel to the brim with water and cover it with the lid, so that the process takes place without access to sunlight. The mixture is mixed slightly twice a day. After 3-5 days (in hot weather) or a week later (in a cool one) a film appears on the surface of the barrel - the concentrate is ready! With a long stick carefully mix the composition. The remainder of grass and manure with forks I transfer to the compost pile.
    How to apply?
    Liter infused in 10 l of water.
    Cucumbers first time feed at the very beginning of flowering, the second - during the mass setting of fruits, then - as needed (if the whip begins to turn yellow).
    Tomatoes for the first time I feed during pasynkovaniya or flowering, after - as necessary, about once in 2-3 weeks.

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  6. Nina Dym, Soligorsk district

    All plants go into growth, potato tops reach 1,5 m, or even more. We do not apply any nitrogen fertilizers. I suppose that there is an excess of nitrogen in the soil. What to do?

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    • Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

      In fact, excess nitrogen in the soil does not always affect the growth of plants, especially so strong. Usually, when there is a surplus of nitrogen in the ground, a sharp thickening of plant stems, a decrease in the number of ovaries, flowers, the formation of a large number of leaves of a saturated green color, but growth may not only not increase, but even slow down. Try to make during the season about half the matchbox of any phosphorus and potash fertilizer per 1 sq.m. These elements are able to balance the concentration of nitrogen in the soil, if it is exceeded.

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