Vegetable garden and garden ON SAND - what to do?
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HOW TO MAKE FERTILIZED SANDY SOIL?
If you can't find fertile soil in the daytime with fire on the site, this is not a reason to put an end to your dream of self-grown vegetables.
We, too, in the absence of the necessary funds, fantasize at the dacha as best we can. The fact is that we have no land at all! One solid sand!
The invited experts, digging the well, were always surprised: “What is your sand anomaly? Four rings have already been dug in, but the ground has not yet been seen. " And we also buy only sand, we don’t order land. We add sand to the lowlands and from it we make beds.
I must say right away: we, of course, have few beds. But we grow on them everything necessary for our family in the required quantities. We don't need tons of vegetables - it's just nice to eat what we ourselves have planted and grown. And the process itself is fascinating.
To be honest, I am generally opposed to the entire site being fenced in for beds. We, for example, have a small area for planting behind the house, behind the gazebo and behind the change house. Therefore, when guests arrive, they are always interested first of all: where are the beds? I am leading, showing. And the guests are surprised again: in the spring they doubt the possibility of growing anything on the sand, and in the fall they wonder why everything has grown. That is why I hope that my letter will be useful to those readers who also got sand instead of normal earth. And maybe not only for them: it is always interesting to get acquainted with someone else's experience.
In short, I'm telling you how to benefit from sand.
We enclose future beds with boards or glass bottles buried down with necks. The first option is, of course, better, because high boxes can be made. But in any case, we construct the beds themselves narrow so that we can reach the center without any problems from the row spacing.
Then we put chopped branches and all sorts of sticks, weeds weed out directly on the sod, and all this is covered with a thick layer of mown grass, which we pre-stand for several days, putting it in heaps.
Cover everything with sand on top. When we plant something, we make holes, pushing the grass and sand apart with our hands, and pour some purchased land inside. But we use it rather in order to clearly see the place where it is planted. By the way, we arrange flower beds in the same way.
In about a year or two, such a bed settles, and we once again fill it up with mown grass and sand (only it can be seen from the side). Under such a "blanket" the grass rots perfectly and works no worse than manure. This is how we do without purchasing fertile soil and expensive manure.
Reference by topic: Preparation of sandy soil and its improvement
We fertilize the plantings with a green infusion of nettle, which we specially grow on the site. Yes, yes, it is strange that not everyone knows about the exceptional benefits of this plant. We plant potatoes, too, without digging anything: we lay them out on the sod and cover them with a thick layer of grass. Last year, he grew up in general for a feast for the eyes - large, clean! It is surprising that our friends and relatives still do not believe that it is possible to grow second bread this way. I'm tired of explaining to them all
We also plant zucchini on the grass, more precisely on heaps, where, in addition to it, there are also weeds and branches. We make in these heaps, as it were, small "pockets", pour a little sand there so that the seed does not fall deep into the depths, put the seeds and fill it with sand. Again, thanks to him, you can immediately see where to water, while there are no sprouts.
That's how we get along. And everything is growing with us normally, believe me. For example, we remove 80-90 zucchini every year, we don't know where to put them. The neighbors at the dacha order all the manure, the stench on the whole territory. They live in the fresh air, they say! And we have everything clean - sand.
We mow the grass at home. We mow, and again, beauty on the site is better than a lawn! And you can play volleyball or football, and just run around there is enough space. Yes, you can do anything, in the country there should be not only beds! People say that so much space is wasted with us, but I am adamant about this. On the site there is grass, flowers - what could be better?
However, back to the grass. I admit, we mow it outside the site, since we have roads on both sides (and no one except us, of course, mows along the sides), and we also border on an abandoned site. True, recently neighbors from a distant site also asked to use this "mowing" - it means that at least someone knows about its benefits. But we turned them down. They said that we ourselves make beds and flower beds out of it, it is worth its weight in gold!
I noticed that there were more articles from the gardeners of the North-West. Thanks to them!
GARDEN AND GARDEN ON THE SAND - TIPS AND FEEDBACK FROM GARDENERS
SAND, CLAY, WATER AND DUST
Our soil is the purest sand, in places white, like on the beach, and in some places red. And once, having read how good it is to plant everything in hills and ridges, I began to do so. Indeed, after all, the soil warms up faster in spring, and the root collars do not get wet, but it turned out that all this is suitable for wet areas. But it’s not suitable for sands: it’s too dry, you can’t water it properly - the water rolls down.
Now I plant so that the seedling is even on a hill, but this mound would not rise above the surface of the earth. And around the hillock a circular ditch was dug, so that at least you can water it properly: you fill the ditch with water - and the whole hill is saturated.
Now about clay. When landing on the sand without it, nowhere. I mix soil sand with clay (at least a bucket, but more is better) plus a bucket, or even more, of half-ripe hay. There was no compost, the hay had not yet had time to turn into it. And I planted everything in such a mixture last year, seeing the result on blackberries.
Transplanted into a mixture of sand, clay and a large amount of hay dust, the blackberry, which had vegetated before, finally flooded, although I had no compost, no humus, no fertilizer. The branches became as thick as a finger, but earlier they didn’t even reach a pencil! They poured clay into the pit, poured hay from the bottom of the haystack, added sand from the edges of the pit, filled it to the top with water and mixed everything with their hands. This, by the way, is much easier than shoveling dry. At the same time, it seemed that I had just water in the landing pit, in which lumps of hay were floating.
Berries and bush plants, unlike fruit plants, I try to plant in such a way that in the end they remain buried in the hole.
The same applies to fruit trees grafted onto a clonal stock. They can also be deepened to the very vaccination, and it can be higher, if necessary, so that the scion goes to its roots. Clonal rootstocks take root well from the trunk, and you can not be afraid for the root collar, but hide it deeper and get more roots.
I noticed this when I first planted apple trees on a clone stock in the usual way, without deepening the root neck. When the trunks (it just so happened) were heavily covered with mulch, they let in whole bunches of roots. But due to rare watering, these roots, unfortunately, dried up in the upper part, as the mulch dried up from above. And if this property - to easily take root over the entire height of the stem - does not apply to all clonal rootstocks, then let nursery experts and agronomists correct me!
I love clay!
Also, my frail gumi has been sitting for several years. In the spring, I planted another one nearby, adding proper loam (once they brought a car). And this newcomer overtook the old one so that hoo! It even bloomed all over and brought one berry - self-pollinated. But still, one must, of course, look for gumi from another source for cross-pollination.
And in the old one, the upper leaves have already begun to turn yellow. Then, finally, I gathered myself and, having dug a small groove around it, added a few handfuls of lumps of clay around the circle, stirred it a little with the soil with my fingers and mulched it with the grass torn nearby. Watered properly. And soon the leaves at the top went much larger, and such a good green color. I did not even expect such an effect! In short, I love clay. It is nutritious, not like sand.
© Author: Maria Romanovna PTITSYNA. Ryazan Oblast
Reference by topic: DIY garden on clay, sand, acidic soil and on a slope
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