Soil for future seedlings: how to prepare it yourself, with your own hands. Recipes and ingredients
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- ✓ SOIL FOR SEEDLING SHOULD BE:
- ✓ THE CORRECT SOIL COMPOSITION FOR SEEDLING
- ✓ FOR EVERY CULTURE - ITS SEEDLING SOIL
- ✓ UNIVERSAL SOIL FOR SEEDLING
- ✓ FROM TABLE TO BED: NATURAL FERTILIZERS
- ✓ PREPARING SOIL FOR SEEDLING - TIPS FROM READERS
- ✓ FOR EVERY VEGETABLE, ITS SOFT RECIPE FOR SEEDLING
- ✓ WE PREPARE SOIL FOR SEEDLING WITH OWN HANDS - VIDEO
PREPARATION AND PREPARATION OF SOIL FOR SEEDLING - PREPARE Sledges in AUTUMN!
Gardeners often complain that purchased soil for seedlings is becoming more and more expensive in quality, so they prepare the land for future crops on their own. However, picking and formulating the right soil mixture is a challenge. How to avoid mistakes, says a researcher of the Federal Research Center. Michurina Irina GURIEVA.
SOIL FOR SEEDLING SHOULD BE:
- nutritious
- (contain macro and microelements);
- loose and light;
- moisture-absorbing (able to absorb and retain moisture);
- neutral (optimal pH level - from 6, 5 to 7);
- clean (do not contain weed seeds, pests, pathogens).
In order for the components of the soil mixture to combine into a single whole, you need to leave the soil in the container for at least 21 days
THE CORRECT SOIL COMPOSITION FOR SEEDLING
Any soil mixture for seedlings must contain organic and inorganic components.
Organic ingredients that can be added to seedling soil:
- turf soil (should be prepared before frost begins);
- garden land;
- leaf humus (mature compost from healthy leaf litter);
- humus (manure rotted for 5 years);
- compost (various organic residues rotted to a homogeneous mass);
- low-lying peat (close to neutral acidity);
- moss-sphagnum;
- sunflower or buckwheat husk;
- crushed eggshell;
- wood ash;
- chalk and dolomite flour.
Inorganic components of seedling soil:
- clean river sand;
- perlite;
- vermiculite;
- hydrogel;
- expanded clay;
- crushed polystyrene.
Components that should not be added to soil mixtures:
- Fresh manure and unripe compost - organic matter that continues to decompose can generate heat and dramatically reduce the nitrogen content of the soil, causing the seedling root system to die;
- clay - can strongly compact the soil mixture, disrupt air and water exchange, which will also lead to the death of plants;
- tea brewing;
- leftover fruit.
- How to disinfect soil
There are several reliable ways:
- freeze (take bags of soil outside 2-3 times during the winter until they freeze and bring them in for defrosting);
- ignite (heat 4-5 kg of soil on a baking sheet in the oven at a temperature of 130-150 degrees, up to 30 minutes);
- steam (pour boiling water, close the lid, leave to cool, let the water drain, and dry the soil);
- pickle (spill with insecticide and fungicide diluted according to the instructions - for example, Fitosporin and Fitoverm).
The disadvantage of all these methods is that as a result, not only harmful, but also beneficial microorganisms contained in the soil die. But this can be corrected - with the help of biological products (Trichodermin, Baikal EM, Radiance), populate the soil that has been deserted after disinfection with new beneficial microorganisms.
We also recommend reading: DIY soil for seedlings + ways to disinfect it
FOR EVERY CULTURE - ITS SEEDLING SOIL
There are quite a few types of soil mixtures for seedlings, however, when compiling them, it is important to take into account the requirements of a particular culture. For example, tomatoes thrive in a slightly alkaline soil with organic matter, high in potassium and nitrogen. Cabbage grows better in soil with the addition of lime or wood ash (from the editor: for more details, see the table below).
UNIVERSAL SOIL FOR SEEDLING
However, there is also a versatile potting mix. To prepare it, mix 2 parts of garden soil and 1 part of rotted manure (humus) or compost, low-lying peat and river sand.
IN NO EVENT DO NOT SOW SEEDS IN A PURE MUSHROOM OR COMPOST: IN THEM THE ROOT SYSTEM OF SEEDLING DEVELOPS BADLY, AND AFTER TRANSFERRING INTO OPEN SOIL, THE PLANTS FEEL OVERFLOW AND MAY BE DEPRESSED.
FROM TABLE TO BED: NATURAL FERTILIZERS
In the spring, kitchen waste can be used as fertilizing for future seedlings. Start harvesting them now.
Dry the onion and garlic peels and store them in fabric or paper bags.
Rinse the eggshells, dry them, grind them in a coffee grinder and keep them in closed glass jars.
Grind dried banana peels in a blender or coffee grinder and store the powder in cans or cloth bags.
© Author: Alexander Gorny, Cand. of sciences
See also: How to buy soil for seedlings - select and check
PREPARING SOIL FOR SEEDLING - TIPS FROM READERS
The seedlings will grow right!
I prepare the soil for seedlings in early October. I put the cut strips of turf with grass downwards in a wooden box in the barn. I sprinkle each layer with several handfuls of lime and superphosphate (based on a matchbox per 1 square meter of turf). When the stack reaches a height of 1 m, I spill everything with a urea solution (30 g per bucket of water). I make sure that the moisture reaches the bottom layer. I cover everything with foil, but leave holes on the sides so that the soil can "breathe". A month later, I shovel the soil for the first time. Then I repeat the procedure every two weeks. By mid-January, the universal soil for seedlings is ready. Loose and nutritious enough for all crops.
Larisa YAKOVLEVA
We also recommend reading: The ideal soil for future seedlings with your own hands (COMPOSITION + COMPONENTS)
FOR EVERY VEGETABLE, ITS SOFT RECIPE FOR SEEDLING
CULTURE | SOIL MIXTURE |
Tomato | One part of humus, peat, turf soil and rotted sawdust. Add 10 g of wood ash, 110 g of superphosphate, 25 g of potassium sulfate and 20 g of urea to 15 liters of the mixture |
Bell pepper | Four parts of peat, two parts of sod soil, one part of humus and rotted sawdust. Add 10 g of superphosphate and 10 g of potassium sulfate to 15 liters of the mixture |
Cucumber | One part of sod soil and humus or compost. Add 10 g of wood ash to 200 liters of the mixture, 15 g each of potassium sulfate and superphosphate |
Cabbage | To 10 kg of sod soil, add 250 g of wood ash, 1 kg of lime and river sand, as well as 15 g of superphosphate and 10 g of potassium sulfate |
Eggplant | Four parts of humus, two parts of peat, one part of rotted sawdust. Add 10 g of superphosphate and potassium sulfate to a bucket of soil |
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WE PREPARE SOIL FOR SEEDLING WITH OWN HANDS - VIDEO
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It is advisable to prepare garden soil before frost for growing seedlings in spring and transplanting indoor plants. Compost, and soil from greenhouses, and non-acidic peat will be useful. I prefer to sift all the components before using, then the mixtures are light, airy.
For disinfection, the soil in bags must be left in the garden or on the balcony - for freezing, and added to the heat as needed.
It is important to keep the bags tied and the contents moist to preserve the soil microflora.