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RAW AREA UNDER THE INCLINE - ARRANGEMENT AND GROWING OF VEGETABLES

Good yields do not depend on the size of the plot or on its merits. The main thing is to be able to creatively apply other people's advice.

We had a garden for a long time, but my mother was engaged in it, and my son and I were mainly a workforce "on call". However, the site had to be abandoned after the flood, when the water rose by 2 m and did not leave for three months. After that, it was scary to look at the place where the garden was located ...

I chose the new site myself: I wanted it to be closer to the city and be small in area: the years go by, but we are not getting younger. As a result, I bought five acres, but after the survey it turned out to be four and a half. The site itself was in disrepair, but the house was not bad, built of bricks, and the road was paved. This is how the year before last I became the sovereign mistress of the dacha.

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FIRST STEPS TO IMPROVE THE SITE

The summer season in our area lasts from May to October. Since the site was bought in June, we had to work in an emergency mode. Since our possessions slope from east to west, and in the lowest place it was rather damp, we planted our seedlings of tomatoes, peppers and eggplants at the top. The plants were placed as tightly as possible, not hoping for a harvest: only so as not to throw away the seedlings. Looking ahead, I will say that I was most fortunate with the harvest of tomatoes - they ate them fresh and were able to pickle them.

But back to the main topic. We bought five machines of humus and one of sand (photo 1). In the fall, all this stuff was scattered in the lowland, and the site more or less leveled off. And so that the sand and humus would not "run away" to the neighbors, we had to put bumpers from pieces of slate along the border along the chain-link netting - oh, we were busy with this for more than one weekend! We installed a greenhouse measuring 3 × 6 m.

Inside, they fenced off three high beds, arranging them with the letter "Ш". Humus was poured into the resulting boxes and some of the peppers and eggplants were transplanted there. And even managed to get some harvest!

Cherry thickets were cut down throughout the site, and you still don't understand why, and a third of the vacated territory was filled up with these branches-trunks. They planted raspberries, and so that they would not go for a walk around the site in the future, they fenced them with dug pieces of slate, which Misha's son cut into strips 40-50 cm wide.It cost him a lot of effort, but the next year this plot had to be redone, so changed my plans, and the weather was wrong. After all, the winter turned out to be with little snow, and the seedlings of the varieties Gusar and Tourmaline (I really wanted to have raspberries without thorns!) Froze.

Do you think we stopped at the above that year? They began to build, having brought under one roof, a utility block, a barn and a toilet. We wanted to complete the construction by the end of the season, but only managed to build a utility block: in October, on the last weekend of the month, they hung a door, a lock and finally dragged tools, buckets and all kinds of rubbish from the veranda there.

And on time, since by this time the light in SNT was turned off. There was no stove in the house, so the season had to end. Although they continued to come to the dacha in winter, to throw snow from the greenhouse, throw it on the beds and under the trees left in inheritance, and also fill the barrels with it. And, of course, they left food for the birds.

Tulle against the thunderstorm

The new season has arrived. Neighbors are busy with planting in May, and we make a garden. Sheets of the same slate were cut with my son in transverse strips approximately 28-30 cm wide and with their help they built eight beds 50 cm wide and 7 m long along the north-south axis (photo 2). Between them, passages of 60 cm were left. Garlic, carrots, onions, daikon, turnips and leeks were placed on the beds. Moreover, two ridges were allocated specifically for strawberries: on one they planted Festivalnaya, and on the other - a mixture of varieties that my aunt gave. Over the summer, there were so many mustaches that I filled another bed with them, from which we just removed the onion.

I think it would be appropriate here to talk about the harvest. Photo 3 shows a grown carrot. But failure is associated with her: she planted her with granular seeds, which rarely sprouted. It turned out to be useless to plant, since the friendly shoots from simple seeds were suppressed by the tops of the first planting that grew in the open space. In addition, several root crops were completely spoiled by someone from the inside (photo 4). Maybe someone can tell me what this pest is?

With cabbage, too, came out a bummer. Since the spring was cold, the seedlings in the greenhouse took a long time to sprout, and then someone ate them. A week later, I planted the remains of the seedlings, which I covered with cut plastic bottles. Nobody tried to attack the plants, but due to the fact that I planted them too densely, they were cramped, which affected the quality of the heads. From cabbages, she planted the beds around the perimeter with marigolds, and pulled a wire from above, onto which she fastened the old tulle.

This shading, incidentally, protected the young cabbage from hail during a large thunderstorm.

Now about the bow. Sevok Stuttgarten Riesen was medium-sized. But the more expensive Sturon justified the cost of it (photo 5). Exhibishen - the first pancake is lumpy: she sowed about a hundred seeds, and received only 11 shoots. And the grown bulbs were not as big as they write. It is probably necessary to sow earlier.

Leek also planted for the first time. I looked after according to the recommendations from Dacha, and everything turned out well. On the loosened bed, I made depressions with a stick, watered and put thin "laces" of seedlings in these holes, without covering them with earth. In the future, she fenced off the stalks with cut two-liter bottles, into which she poured loose soil. And by the end of September, the white plump legs of the leek were already 20 cm long. We liked this onion very much, we ate it quickly.

Yes, I forgot to say that in the garden, closer to the fence, where there is a shadow after three o'clock in the afternoon, I planted various useful herbs: mint, lemon balm, thyme, oregano, sorrel.

FIRST CONCLUSIONS ...

I allocated a plot about half a hundred in size for potatoes. I wanted, of course, not to dig and plow when growing it, but so far it has not worked: the land has not been cultivated for too long. I hope the siderates will help me with this. Last spring, they sowed a mixture of mustard, vetch and olive radish, and in the summer they have grown to the waist! In the heat, these siderates shaded the potatoes well, but then I cut them off and put them between the rows.

The potatoes were planted in double rows - they liked it. One row, for the sake of curiosity, was planted under straw, adding cut grass, but the experiment failed.

The cucumbers were planted in open ground on a high bed, on which grass and organic waste were piled the year before last. When the bushes grew up, they tied them to the trellis. The weather was unstable, and we did not remove the covering material from the garden almost all summer, and in September we also had to stretch the film over it. The harvested fruits were enough for all needs, but in the fall they began to build a four-meter greenhouse specifically for cucumbers, so as not to depend on the weather. I hope to place eggplants in the same place.

It was very cold throughout May, so the tomato seedlings were planted in the greenhouse only at the end of the month, the remains were attached at the beginning of June to an open bed for non-woven fabric. In July, she removed this shelter, and in August she returned it to its place.

But we reaped a good harvest again. In addition to the old tested varieties such as Max and Bull's Heart, many new ones were also planted. I especially want to highlight Carnabel and Sir Elian for the beautiful shape of the fruit, good taste and keeping quality. I also liked the Yellow Date: very fruitful, sweet, good in conservation (photo 6). And in photo 7 - he is, but together with Max. Peppers and eggplants also spent the whole summer under the covering material. The quantity and quality of the harvested fruits corresponded to the conditions - minimum. Conclusion: we need another greenhouse!

Instead of the frozen raspberries, Gusar was again planted, as well as Lazarevskaya and Pride of Russia. And around they sowed phacelia, which was cut in the fall and covered the ground between the bushes with its stems. We planted a honey pear, and at the same time made my mother's old dream come true - we bought an apricot of the Delight variety.

Moreover, next to this seedling, they buried the seeds of store-bought apricots: what if it will be possible to keep him company? There were also planted white, red and black currants (Dove), as well as cerapadus, which in our area is mistakenly called cherries. The fruits of this culture are very large, tasty (slightly tart), the jam from them is simply incomparable! All these plants are still very small, and at the end of autumn I wrapped them in a covering material, on top of which I put on sugar bags (photo 8).

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... AND FAR MOVING PLANS

All beds and free plots vacated during the season were sown with oats and clover. In the fall, the land was not dug up, leaving it under cover of various tops and deciduous-coniferous litter brought from the forest. Thanks to my trouble-free son Misha for his constant help!

We decided not to weed the passages between the beds, but covered them with sawdust: walking is comfortable, dry, then we will transfer this organic matter to the beds. This year I plan to sow lawn grass in the aisles.

Now I have come to grips with the further planning of the site, because in my thoughts there are still many different landings, and there is nowhere to turn around. And you also need to find a convenient place for the car, and bring the farm buildings to mind - you also want to equip a bathhouse! So think about what to do. In general, there is still a lot of work at our dacha, and even more plans.

It's good at least my mother is there: she will always prompt, help, support.

I, in turn, would like to propose a "reminder" with a list of means of planting protection from pests, which I compiled on the basis of readers' letters. She helped me a lot.

PLANNING ON THE SLOPE. Retaining walls. Backfilling, terracing.

RECIPES FOR NATURAL TINCTURES AND PESTS

Marigold. Pluck whole during flowering. Needed for spraying aphid berries and for disinfection of gladiolus bulbs. Recipe: pour 10 liters of warm water on the floor of a bucket of raw materials, strain after two days and add 40 g of laundry soap.

Burdock. Against whitewash and scoops on cabbage, radish, radish and turnip. Fill a 1/3 bucket with well-chopped leaves, then pour water up to 2/3 of the volume, leave for a day, then strain and spray the planting three to four times with a break of seven to eight days.

Potato tops. Against aphids, fruit and spider mites. Pour 800 g of raw materials with 10 liters of water, stand for 3 hours, strain, add 40 g of laundry soap and spray immediately. The product only works when it is fresh.

Dandelion. Against aphids, ticks, honeydew. Pour 200 g of leaves with 10 liters of water, strain after 2-3 hours. Carry out processing during bud break and after flowering.

Wormwood (leaves and stem tops are torn off during flowering). Against the apple moth. Pour half a bucket of raw materials with a head with water, put on fire, boil for 15 minutes, cool, strain and dilute with 10 liters of water.

Tomato tops (dried). Against cabbage moth caterpillars, scoop and whiteworms. Boil 4 kg of leaves with petioles in 10 liters of water for half an hour over low heat, let stand, strain, add 120 g of laundry soap.

Garlic. Against aphids, ticks and honeydew. Pass 200-300 g of unclean heads through a meat grinder, pour 2 liters of hot water, strain after a day, add 8 liters of water and 30 g of laundry soap.

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Comment

Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)
11/10/2022 (16:19) #

My husband and I had a house with a piece of land. Several apple trees, cherries and pears grew on the site. There was little land, but we used it rationally. They grew everything - from dill to currants. But Alexander died two years ago, and I decided to move to my son in the Leningrad region. The son bought a house with a plot of 25 acres.
It would seem that there is a lot of land, do what you want, but somewhere a plum grows, which does not bear fruit, somewhere a spruce or pine, which, among other trees, is cramped and dark. How to deal with these hundreds, I have no idea. Where is the best place to plant raspberries and other shrubs?
Dear summer residents, share the plans of your plots! Share experience and knowledge.
Interested in the following questions:
1. Why does the plum not bear fruit (grows near the fence, in the shade)? What and when should it be fed?
2. How do you protect the cherry crop from birds? Strawberries also get almost all of the birds. I’m sorry, but sometimes there’s nothing left for grandchildren.
3. Which trees and shrubs are friendly, and which ones should be planted further away?
4. Share the names of fruit tree varieties for the northwestern regions.
And one more question. The son struggles unsuccessfully with weeds. Grass has already filled a third of the site, and Nikolai says that he will pour herbicides on everything. But it's dangerous! There are no safe herbicides, the wind blows - poison and scatter to the desired crops.

I would like to hear the opinion of experienced summer residents, because there is no desire to poison the land, crops and yourself.