How to cure the soil on the site - 2 tips
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TREATMENT AND RESTORATION OF SOIL FERTILITY
No matter how well-groomed the land is in our dachas, but over time the soil inevitably deteriorates: both cultural plantings and weeds draw juices out of it. Therefore, periodically the soil must be improved. And the beginning of the spring summer season is the best time for this work.
SAUSAGE AND SOIL FORTUNE
I am a beginner gardener, I still do not understand many things. For example, I know that soils are different: sandy, podzolic, clayey, etc. Is it possible to determine what type of land I have on the site, in some simple way, without reagents and other agronomic tricks? And how to improve soil structure?
K.L SKORNYAKOVA, Klin, Moscow Region
Accurate determination of the type and composition of the soil is possible only in laboratory conditions. But we, ordinary summer residents, do not need such accuracy. Take a handful of soil, slightly moisten it with water and try to roll a sausage out of it.
About the same as children sculpt from plasticine. If none of this works out for you, the earth immediately crumbles into small grains - it means that it is sand.
And if small separate pieces are fashioned, but there is no way to connect them together, I congratulate you: sandy loam is the best land for growing vegetables and many other crops.
As well as light loam. By the way, the sausage rolls out of the loam, but does not hold, it immediately breaks. But if the soil in your hand rolls into an even cord, on which cracks appear in places, then you are less fortunate. This is a dense loam - not the most suitable soil for farming. Even worse, when the resulting sausage
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INFERTILITY GARDEN AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT
When I received a dacha plot from my enterprise, at first it seemed to me that nothing could be grown on it. When I started digging a garden in the spring, it turned out that the earth was solid clay, it stuck to the shovel in layers, not to tear it off. With sin in half, I dug up several beds, I didn’t even master half the garden. In the first year, I decided not to add anything to the ground, I thought that since virgin soil, then there are enough nutrients anyway. Planted potatoes, cabbage, beets, carrots.
Seedlings turned out frail, grew slowly. I watered generously, and the weather is hot, and the entire surface of the ridges was baked into a hard crust. Loose not loosened - all to no avail. Suppose, in the morning, he loosened the ridges, and in the afternoon the rain passed - and all the work was in vain: the soil stuck together again, and even the young shoots, nailed to the ground by rain, stuck to it and could not rise in any way.
In short, I was utterly tormented that season, and I received a harvest - with a gulkin's nose.
After such a failure, he asked for advice from experienced people, they taught him the mind. I had to spend money: in the fall I brought several cars of peat, sawdust, good black earth and evenly distributed it over the site. And in the spring I agreed with the tractor driver, and he plowed the whole garden for me. I won’t say that the land immediately became wonderful, but it was still much better, and I was no longer ashamed of the harvest.
In subsequent years, manure began to be added to the ground. I also made a mistake: I smelled fresh, not rotted. It turns out that he burns the roots of plants. Since then, I've been letting the organics mature, overheat. And now the earth has become good, crumbly, everything grows on it. So there are no bad soils, but there are lazy and inept gardeners.
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© Author: Stanislav Sergeevich LAGUTENKO. Cheboksary
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