Mistakes when mulching - the opinions of summer residents about what is BETTER to mulch the soil
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HOW AND WHAT TO MULCH CORRECTLY
I read an article by A.P. Evdashkina "Epic with oats and green manure" and wanted to share his experience.
Many summer residents, like Alexandra Petrovna, use mustard as a green manure, sowing their plots with it after harvesting vegetables and leaving everything until spring. But let me remind you why we grow green manure: this is the food of earthworms, processing it into humus, which enriches the soil. To do this, you need to bury all green manure in the ground in October, and preferably in November, weather permitting. Those who are lazy rake dry stems in the spring and send them to compost or burn them. And for those who dug, the earth becomes loose, soft and requires digging.
After that, you can plant any crops, except for cabbage, turnips, radishes, radishes and others, since mustard is adjacent to cruciferous crops, and there is often a keel on its roots.
For example, we always plant cabbage along the northern edge of the potato patch. They coexist wonderfully: the tops serve as protection from heat and sun, and after abundant watering of the cabbage, moisture also falls to the potatoes. This saved the harvest in the dry summer of last year.
We have been sowing vetch-rye and bean-rye mixtures as green manure for many years. Then we bury it in late autumn, and the soil is enriched with nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other substances. Also, rye is considered the best remedy against nematodes along with marigolds and calendula. We chop the latter with an ax and bury them in the greenhouse in the autumn, fall asleep in the aisles of strawberries and strawberries. In the spring, there is no need to sow green manure, because all the elements for plant nutrition will already be in the ground.
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MULCH FROM ASH, EGGSHELL, BONE MEAL AND MANURE
With grass and weed mulch, I advise you to be careful, especially in rainy summers, because it risks becoming a breeding ground for slugs. It is better to use straw, pine litter or spruce branches, as well as semi-rotted red-brown sawdust.
Once Vika, my daughter, covered strawberries with dry hay after a garden trimmer. As long as the weather was clear, everything was in order with the berries, but as soon as the rains began, rot appeared. The hay had to be removed immediately.
Galina Ivanovna Shchekaleva writes that she does not bury the green mass in the soil - these crops remain for the birds. She also leaves the rye until spring, cutting it for chickens and mulch, while planting the roots into the ground. I believe that green manure roots alone are not enough, which is why there is an irreversible depletion of the soil.
I also note that it is not at all necessary to apply mineral fertilizers for the best growth of our green helpers.
We use a lot of ashes, eggshells, bone meal and manure. In addition, plants absorb nitrogen and carbon dioxide from the air in the amount they need.
We collect eggshells during the winter, it turns out 4-5 kg, dry it and then grind it with a glass bottle on a baking sheet. The same is true with potato peelings, which we bring in the spring under the currant bushes. Even in winter we collect bones (fish, chicken and after boiling jelly), store them in the garage, and in the spring we burn them in the garden stove and crush them, getting bone meal, which we also add to the soil.
Cucumbers, carrots, cabbage and turnips react most effectively to eggshells and bone meal, less zucchini, radish and tomatoes.
Sea buckthorn, plum and cherry require lime first. I consider ash the best fertilizer and over the summer I collect more than seven buckets, burning potato and tomato tops, branches after pruning raspberries, currants, gooseberries, plums, apple trees in the garden stove.
In addition, there are many sawmills in our region, near which there are always mountains of waste, slats, slabs, usually burned in the spring. I check such places from time to time and then I pour the ashes collected there under the trees and bushes. They get strength, do not get sick and are not affected by pests.
Reference by topic: Which mulch is better?
WHAT IS THE BEST TO MULCH THE SOIL? VIDEO
© Author: Vladimir CHAINIKOV. urban-type settlement Chistye bory, Kostroma region
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