Do-it-yourself dacha, garden and vegetable garden - folk advice: collection No. 38
VENTILATION FOR GRAPES, FOLDING CEILING IN GREENHOUSE AND FIGHT AGAINST SPIDER MITE
I have been using many of your tips for a long time: I sow green manure, mulch plantings, ferment nettles, onion peels and chicken droppings. For mulch, I take calendula greens, raspberry and grape branches after thinning, pruning and finely chop with a hatchet. Last year we bought an electric wood chipper, which made our work much easier. After grinding the mulch, I immediately lay it out on the beds - this helps the earth retain moisture longer. And in the fall I close it all up in the beds.
After such manipulations, the soil becomes loose and fertile. On such beds I especially like to sow carrots: in the fall it is easily pulled out, without a shovel.
VENTILATION FOR GRAPES
In recent years, the summer months have become very hot, with virtually no rain. Last year there was no rain at all, so I had to water it every day: somewhere from a well with a hose, somewhere only with a watering can with warm water. Yes, our Orenburg region in the summer is the second Tashkent. It's a pity
only that cherries, peaches and figs freeze out in winter. I planted cherries: the tree grew large, slender and should have given fruit the next year, but the winter turned out to be little snowy, and it froze.
And earlier, at the beginning of my gardening, my grapes “froze out” (I thought so). I covered him for the winter with old jackets, and on top with a film. As a result, there was no ventilation, and everything rotted out.
Now I don't make those mistakes. I love grapes very much. I have several varieties: two bushes of early black, varieties Aleshenkin, raisins and Isabella, one bush of Muscat pink.
This year I will plant six more varieties, I have already ordered seedlings. In our area, grapes should be planted so that the roots are at a depth of two bayonets of a shovel. I make a deep circle near the trunk: it is more convenient to water and mulch.
FOLDING CEILING IN THE GREENHOUSE
And now I want to talk about my greenhouse. We built it ourselves in 2014. It is arched, 3 × 8 m in size, polycarbonate. Doors with vents on both sides. Snow never lingers on it, so you don’t have to worry that the roof will fail. Racks at a distance of 1 m. We built it in the fall, when the ground was already frozen. Immediately ordered humus. Plant residues (tops and leaves) were laid in the trenches, and everything was covered with humus from above.
In the spring I planted cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. Cucumbers grew and fruited perfectly. Everything else grew only in tops, there were very few fruits, in the open field the harvest was much better.
Then I was upset, my hands dropped. But now my opinion has changed. As they say, live and learn. But I have now learned how to take care of the plants in the greenhouse. I work as a “bee” when the first flowers appear on tomatoes, I process it with a solution of boric acid. In April I sow mustard in the greenhouse, in May I mow it and leave it on the beds as mulch.
I am the first to plant Sanka's tomato, usually already with ovaries. In the 20th of June, we are already enjoying the first gifts of fruit. The variety is productive, bears fruit until frost, small fruits are suitable for salads, and are used for preservation.
In the first days of May, the first greens are already ready - lettuce, dill, coriander, arugula, spinach. Leek (Winter Giant variety) I also sow seedlings in a greenhouse in late March - early April. Later, I plant it in open ground in trenches. He really grows up to be a real giant, he even has to be taken out of the garden in a wheelbarrow.
For the last three years, when the greenhouse gets too hot, the husband removes the polycarbonate triangular sheets under the ridge and places them on the rungs under the roof. There he also puts a few more pieces of polycarbonate left after the construction of the greenhouse. It turns out, as it were, a ceiling, but not solid, but with large gaps. Due to this, hot air does not stagnate in the greenhouse and it is easier for plants to endure the heat.
SPIDER MITE, EXIT!
How I defeated this evil spirits in a greenhouse on cucumbers. First, she removed all the affected leaves, then sprayed the bushes and the soil under them with a solution of onion peel: she filled a three-liter jar halfway with the peel, poured water and left it in the sun for about two days, then filtered it and diluted it with water until the color of weak tea. Worked every day until recovery.
Paths in the greenhouse also need to be watered in the morning and evening to humidify the air. I have an old carpet on them, it retains moisture well.
The greenhouse is also good because the plants there do not suffer from severe sunburn, and even in our steppe zone with strong winds, young tender seedlings in the garden often break, but not in the greenhouse.
I read several articles about onions. Now I also want to try to grow onions on a turnip from my collected seeds of the Exhibition variety.
Thanks to everyone who shares their advice.
Cucumber mosquito is a common greenhouse pest, which is little written about. The rotten lower parts of the stems testify to its appearance. Outwardly, it resembles an ordinary mosquito, capable of causing huge damage to crops. Prevention - warming up the soil. Insects are fought with glue traps, with larvae - with the help of a useful insect phytoseiulus.
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© Author: Alla Buneeva p. Thin Orenburg region
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