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PREPARATION OF SEEDS OF CARROT, RADISH, CABBAGE AND BEET FOR PLANTING

Vasily Pylnikov tells how he prepares ribbons by sticking various seeds on them. Yes, I also already did this work - I pasted the seeds of carrots, radishes, cabbages and table beets. But I was very surprised that Vasily uses tweezers. It is, as he says, "laborious". Of course! Come on, try to take each seed with tweezers, hold it, move it, press it down! The eyes are unbearably tired from such work.

My method is a little simpler: I make glue from flour, knowing the proportion of flour and water. When the glue has cooled, I mix it well, put a little on the back of the spoon, then with the white side of the match (not pointed) I take a little glue from the spoon and transfer it to the tape. I leave drops - about 20-25 pieces at the distance I need. And then I touch the seed with the same match, it sticks, and I transfer it to a drop on paper. The seed will definitely stick, because there is more glue than on a semi-dry match, and so on one by one. I advance the tape, and again leave drops on paper with the same match.

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It turns out much easier and faster, and most importantly - there is no big load on the eyes and fatigue.

For such tapes, drip irrigation is very convenient. We lay out the hose along the beds, and to the left and right of it we put strips of paper with glued seeds. Sprinkle with earth and lightly press down. Very comfortably! I open the faucet when I see that watering is required, and water, heated by the sun, from the tank goes to the desired bed.

The technology of applying seeds to paper tape, "toilet paper" !!!

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GREENHOUSE CASES

In the greenhouse, we plant different varieties of tomatoes, also in a row - so that it is convenient to use such watering. We have two beds - on the left and on the right, and in the middle there is a path. My husband Volodya keeps these paths clean: he cleans all the weeds, sprinkles with sawdust.

How nice it is to go into a greenhouse in the summer and admire ripe tomatoes of all colors of the rainbow - red, pink, yellow, blue-black; various forms - round, long, oval All this is grown by their own labor, with their own hands. And I still want to work, help children, be useful. And my husband and I have already exchanged the eighth decade, after all, health is not added, but only floats away somewhere

We also stepchildren tall tomatoes, leaving one, in some places two stems, in August we pinch the tops, cut off the lower leaves and those that greatly thicken the bush.

Closer to the path, we plant a row of tall ones, and behind them, closer to the film, we plant low-growing, early varieties. When it is necessary to ventilate, we lift the film from the side by about 50-60 cm - then everything inside is well ventilated.

But here it is still important to secure the film with strong ropes. We throw them across the entire greenhouse, tying pieces of reinforcement driven into the ground, because strong winds happen, and if it is poorly fixed, the film can fly away.

For through ventilation, we open the ends from the west and east. If a strong wind blows from one side, we close it.

In a greenhouse with cucumbers, also on garters, even closer to the path, we plant Chinese cabbage so that it does not interfere with cucumbers, on the other hand we sow dill or radish.

ABOUT THE HARM OF MOLE

Moles tortured. Raise heaps of earth where you absolutely do not expect them. We dive tomato seedlings under films, and in a day or two there are already heaps here and there. If you don’t keep track, the roots of the seedlings will be at the top, and everything will wither.

Such heaps appear on any bed: on strawberries, onions, and carrots. In the greenhouse, moles also like it, so we dangle from heap to heap, level it, plant it.

We try to get rid of them in every way: they put quicklime in holes, and set fire to shreds and stuffed them into holes, and filled them with water, and set up mole traps, but during the whole past summer two moles were caught, and the piles are growing. Carbide was used, empty metal jars were hung up - all for nothing.

Galina Galochkina from Cheboksary wrote that they benefit her. She collects earth from heaps without roots - moles loosen the earth for her in a strawberry patch. I don't want that. I'd rather do it all myself, just to get rid of them.

This is how we live and work. Thanks to fellow gardeners for sharing the results of their experiments without hesitation.

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