WHY ROSES DO NOT FLOWER 🌹 Unsuitable soil for roses Roses love light and fertile soil. Only in such soil can they show their flowering in all its glory. If the soil on the site is heavy, it must be prepared before planting the seedling, because. poor soil quality can cause a complete lack of buds and flowers. To do this, in the selected place, loosen the soil to a depth of 50-70 cm and add a fertile substrate mixed with 1 kg of rotted manure or compost. Poorly chosen place for planting a rose Often, novice flower growers plant roses in the wrong place, and then they are surprised that there are no buds and flowers. The fact is that these plants are quite whimsical, love warmth and cannot stand drafts, so the site for growing roses must be chosen especially carefully. You can not plant roses: - in closed shady areas (in the shade of trees, fences and buildings); - in windy areas where there are many drafts; - in areas with high groundwater levels. Better choose open sunny place on a small hill. No less harm to roses is caused by improper planting, after which they hardly take root and cannot bloom in any way. Rose of the first year of planting The rose of the first year of planting is not yet ready for lush flowering. It needs time to adapt, so give the plant a rest and don't forget a good shelter for the winter. Experienced rose growers believe that if a young rose nevertheless decided to bloom in the first year, it is better not to encourage it in this and cut off the buds. This will allow the plant to save energy for subsequent flowering and better take root. An old rose will also not please with flowering, so be sure to carry out regular anti-aging pruning. The presence of root growth in a rose Near grafted roses, over time, a lot of root (wild) growth is formed, which does not benefit flowering. The shoots have a lot of small leaves and thorns, it thickens and weakens the bush, deprives it of varietal qualities and the ability to fully bloom. Coping with this problem is quite simple - cut wild shoots regularly, leaving no stumps. Incorrect pruning of roses Proper care of roses consists in their annual pruning. Without it, flowering will gradually decrease. But summer residents do not always carry out the procedure correctly. Most often, roses suffer from severe pruning, which disrupts metabolic processes and weakens the plant. Therefore, it is worth limiting yourself to sanitary pruning, removing diseased and damaged shoots, as well as forming, which will give the bush a decorative look. After flowering, be sure to remove wilted flowers along with part of the shoot. This not only allows you to preserve the decorativeness of the bush, but also stimulates the formation of new buds. Pruning roses should be carried out in several stages: in spring, summer and autumn. Choose a sharp tool, disinfect it first. Mistakes when watering roses Blooming roses are roses that get enough moisture. Of course, these plants will tolerate a slight drought, but in this case, flowering will be weak or not occur at all. Ideal watering for roses - rare, but plentiful, so that all root system soaked up the water. After that, be sure to loosen the soil to avoid the formation of an airtight crust. You can do otherwise - mulch the bushes. So the soil will retain moisture longer, there will be no need for loosening and you will not have to fight with weeds. For mulching roses, use tree bark, coconut fiber, or rotted compost. Mistakes when feeding roses Roses of any kind and variety need nutrients for lush flowering. If they are not enough, the plant will refuse to bloom. The main thing is not to overdo it with nitrogen fertilizers for roses, otherwise you can get lush green foliage instead of flowers. It is better to give preference to ready-made complex top dressings, potassium sulfate and superphosphate (10 g per 10 liters of water), rotted chicken manure, diluted in a ratio of 1:15. Also performed well folk remedies: yeast, onion peel, iodine, sugar, etc. During the season, you need to spend several root and foliar dressings. Wrong shelter of roses for the winter Not all roses can successfully survive the frosts of the middle zone, so it is imperative to cover the plants for the winter. Of course, this procedure will take time and effort, but without it one should not even talk about good flowering. Just be careful, observe the terms of shelter. In the spring, open the plants gradually so that they do not freeze and harden. But do not delay too much with the cleaning of the shelter, otherwise the shoots will dry out and rot. The presence of diseases and pests of roses Diseases and pests weaken the immunity of plants, leave damage on the leaves and stems. No wonder the exhausted rose does not bloom. Especially dangerous is an infectious burn, which can be seen in the spring after removing the shelter. Violet-brown spots with a border appear on the shoots, with time the stems ulcerate. Treatments for this disease no, the affected bushes must be uprooted and burned. Often roses suffer from diseases such as powdery mildew, rust, black spotting. Depressing effect on the health of roses and pests. Spider mites, thrips, scale insects, aphids, rose sawflies and leafworms are not averse to eating plant sap, so it is important to prevent active reproduction of insects. How more population, the less likely it is that the rose will gather strength and bloom. Help her and regularly carry out preventive spraying, for example, with garlic or nettle infusions. And if you find the presence of pests, use special preparations: Actellik, Iskra, Karbofos, etc.
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How to feed potatoes for a rich harvest? If you planted potatoes without adding any fertilizer at planting, this mistake can be completely corrected when shoots appear. Few people think that the potato harvest may not be 1:4, as is the case with many gardeners, but 1:16 (planted: dug up), or even more. Important: potatoes love moisture very much, and if rains are rare in your region, water the potatoes 1-2 times a week for sure if you want a rich harvest. And now let's talk about top dressing. Top dressing for building green mass In order for a bush to be powerful, it needs nitrogen. Potatoes in small quantities may be able to be fed with solutions based on fermented mullein or chicken manure. But most gardeners simply have no time, and it’s hard to run around with buckets and feed plantings with potatoes. Therefore, you can make it much easier: dilute 1 tablespoon of urea without a slide in 10 liters of water and spray this solution over the leaves. At this concentration, urea does not cause chemical burns, but will provide the necessary supply of nitrogen to build a powerful haulm. When the Potato Blooms Potato budding is the next crucial moment. Take 1-1.5 tbsp. l. potassium magnesia and dilute in 10 liters of water. Get a working solution for the second foliar spray. This foliar top dressing will promote abundant budding of potatoes and tying tubers. When the potatoes bloom The third top dressing, when the potatoes bloom with might and main, will start the process of forming large tubers in the near future. Take 2 tbsp. l. double superphosphate, 1 tbsp. l. urea and dilute in 10 l warm water. Use the working solution also for spraying on the leaves. Foliar top dressings are safe: they do not clog the earth with "chemistry" and do not cause the death of beneficial microorganisms. Spend them early in the morning or in the afternoon, when the midday heat is already behind. Foliar feeding of potatoes can be combined with insecticide treatment, just make sure that they do not contain fertilizers. There are other options for feeding potatoes
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AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO WAKE UP THE SEEDS 🌺 ⠀ In order for the seeds to quickly wake up and sprout, use this simple and effective method. All components for it can be bought at the pharmacy. You will need: - 0.5 l of water - ½ tablet of nicotinic acid - ½ tablet of succinic acid - ½ tablet of glycine - ¼ tablet of ascorbic acid Dissolve all components in water, shake the solution thoroughly and you can use it for pre-sowing seed preparation. Dip any paper or cloth in which you plan to germinate the seeds with this solution. ⠀ This recipe does not contain toxic substances and even with small changes in proportions will not harm the plant. All components used are familiar to gardeners as growth and metabolic stimulants in plants. ⠀ The remains of the prepared solution can be diluted by half with water and used for spraying indoor flowers. This will positively affect their life.
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Finishing the steam room: choose Pine wood. The only plus is low price. You can use pine lining only for cladding a bath, which is heated by an electric heater, and even then not the most powerful one. When the temperature rises, the pine begins to actively release resin, and it is almost impossible to deal with this. Cedar. Beautiful, but expensive. Despite the fact that cedar is a coniferous tree, when heated, it does not “cry” so much. In addition, heated cedar boarding smells very pleasant due to the release of essential oils and light resins. Larch. Dense and durable wood that tolerates moisture well. Larch lining is difficult to process, but products from it are quite durable. Aspen. Good budget option. On the one hand, aspen panels do not have any particularly noteworthy qualities, on the other hand, they look quite presentable and tolerate heat well. Alder. Alder lining is one of the traditional options for cladding high-quality steam rooms. She has solid advantages - and the color is beautiful, and the thermal insulation characteristics are on top, and the aroma she gives off when heated is very pleasant. The main difficulties are to find a really high-quality alder lining, and to find money to buy it. Linden. Wall decoration in the steam room with linden clapboard is an ideal solution for baths with a high heating temperature. The thing is that linden boards heat up very slowly, so it is almost impossible to get burned on them. On the other hand, linden requires careful treatment: if you do not take care of the sheathing and shelves, then literally in a year they will darken and will not please the eye with a pleasant light shade. Oak. Oak sheathing is heavy, durable and almost eternal. It is expensive, it is difficult to process - but the result is beyond praise. As a rule, oak panels are either bought for a very large amount of money, or cut out on their own, if time and skill allow.
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Pinch Seedlings - INCREASE PEPPER YIELD When the stems at the nodes begin to color, it's time to pinch the growing point to limit height growth, encourage stepchildren, which increases plant yield, and prevent premature flowering. With nail scissors I cut off everything that is above the 7th real sheet. If the cotyledon leaves begin to turn yellow, I remove them too. The next day, I spray the pinched plants with a growth stimulator to bring the plants out of stress. After pinching from the axils of the leaves, stepchildren begin to grow actively. Usually formed by four or five stems. In the lower sinuses, the rudiments of stepchildren also appear. They do not need to be removed - this is the next wave of the crop. Her time will come after the first stepchildren have bloomed. When pests appear, I spray with SLOX greenhouse aerosol (a complex of phytocomponents from pests). By the time of landing in the ground, buds are formed on the stepchildren. During the summer season, I no longer form plants.
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HOW TO INCREASE THE YIELD OF CURRANT. Currants require 4 top dressings per season. 1 - as soon as the buds open: 2 tbsp. l. ammonium nitrate per 10 liters of water. Consumption rate - 1 bucket per bush. 2 - in the middle of June: 1 tbsp. l. urea, 1.5 st. l. superphosphate and 0.5 tbsp. l. potassium sulfate per 10 liters of water. Consumption rate - 1 bucket per bush. 3 - at the end of September - beginning of October: 0.5 cups of superphosphate and 2/3 cups of potassium sulfate per 1 bush. 4 - at the end of October: 0.5 buckets of rotted manure under a bush. Cut out excess and old branches. Most of the fruits in black currant ripen on two-year and three-year-old shoots. Older ones give fewer berries. Therefore, the plants must be formed in such a way that 3-4 one-year-old shoots remain on the bush annually. And all that are older than 6 years must be cut out. It is best to do this in the fall, when the leaves fall from the plant. Spray with honey solution (dissolve 1 tablespoon of honey in 1 liter of water) during flowering. Currants are pollinated by bees. And in order to attract more of them, the plants must be sprinkled with sweet water. And of course, in the absence of rain, do not forget to water the bushes.
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Homemade tomatoes Despite the fact that tomatoes are thermophilic, they can grow well and produce crops even in winter frosts. To do this, it is enough to sow indoor varieties of tomatoes. These are usually low-growing cherry varieties specifically designed to grow in small amounts of soil. Indoor tomato seeds are rarely found in stores, but you can still get them. There are many varieties of indoor tomatoes: Balcony Miracle, Yellow Pearl, Mini, Japanese Dwarf, Little Florida and many others. They are united by short growth up to 35-40 cm, medium-sized fruits weighing up to 60-100 g and good adaptability to lack of light. After the appearance of the first two or three true leaves, the seedlings dive into pots with a volume of 6x6x6 cm. It is impossible to plant immediately in a pot of the final volume, the bushes will grow and bear fruit worse. Two weeks after picking, the plants are fed with mineral fertilizers. Why take 30 g of nitrophoska per 10 liters of water and water all plants with such a “broth” once every two weeks. Caring for dwarf tomatoes is easier than regular ones. After all, they do not need to be stepchildren and tied up, they do not need to pinch the tops. The only feature is that with the beginning of flowering, tomatoes must be artificially pollinated. To do this, the tops of tomatoes are slightly shaken in the morning. Such a simple technique allows you to get a normal harvest. If you take care of indoor tomatoes correctly, then they will be strewn with fruits from head to toe. Their yield is higher than that of ordinary tomatoes, and the fruits themselves are healthier - they contain more vitamins. The balcony miracle is a product of German breeders. From one plant, you can collect up to 2 kg of fruits weighing 30 g each. The fruits are bright red, sweet. Plants do not suffer from late blight and easily tolerate temperature fluctuations. In addition, this is one of the few varieties whose fruits can be frozen in the freezer. The Japanese dwarf is a purebred "Japanese". The variety is compact, the bush grows up to 50 cm and bears fruit very abundantly, bringing fleshy bright red fruits. The plant is stocky, beautiful, and the fruits look great against the background of terry leaves. Our domestic varieties can also decorate the winter interior: Bead, Parrot, Winter cherry... Orange fruits of the Noon variety, yellow - Lemon, golden-orange - Golden beads, greenish-amber - Zelenushechki and raspberry - Marishki will diversify the color scheme.
I decided to collect all the tips for gardeners and gardeners, tricks or useful tips in one place. Many people think that the more experienced the gardener or gardener, the more harvest he has in the garden and the less problems he has. This is not entirely true. Of course, experience is very important in our horticultural business, but not only. It is important to be able to use knowledge. Many of the tips may seem strange, but rest assured, they really work! Several years of work on suburban area changed my life a lot. Most importantly, they brought joy and satisfaction. And what inventors are my colleagues in the garden! I never cease to be amazed! I have learned a lot from them and I hope to learn a lot more. I am sure that there are a lot of little tricks for gardeners and gardeners and the page with tips will be constantly updated.
1. Tops of tomatoes from pests
Pour the cut tops of tomatoes (stepchildren, lower leaves) with water. Insist for a day. You can spray with this composition cruciferous (for example, cabbage, radish, radish, etc.) and pumpkin (cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkins) from various pests. Another secret - if the tops are allowed to sour, you will get an excellent top dressing for any crops.
2. How to water onions sown with seeds so that they are healthy
Black onions should be watered not only with water, but alternately, either with a weak ash solution (1 glass of ash per bucket of water), or with a very weak solution of potassium permanganate - all pests disappear - the onion becomes strong, healthy.
3. How to keep carrots until spring?
Just leave one bed of carrots undigged. Carefully cut off all the tops, cover the bed on the palm of your hand with earth on top. In the spring, rake the ground - dig up the carrots. It will be fresh, juicy and delicious!
4. How to get rid of moles - summer tricks and tips
5. Parsley shoots will appear in three hours
Many of us grow greens for the table on the window or balcony. It is very comfortable. Parsley seeds germinate very slowly, but there is one trick to "make" them germinate very quickly. Prepare a container with earth, moisten it, sprinkle the earth with quicklime three times every 10-15 minutes. Sow parsley seeds pre-soaked in milk. The seeds will sprout in three hours. The room should be warm, not lower than 20°C.
6. Iodine for the garden
a) If, when growing seedlings, tomatoes are poured once with a weak iodine solution (one drop of iodine per three liters of water), flower brushes will form faster, will be more branched, and the number of ovaries will increase. The fruits on such tomatoes will be 10-15% larger, ripen several days earlier. When the seedlings are planted in the ground, then after two weeks the plants can again be poured with iodine water 1 liter under each root (three drops of iodine per bucket of water).
b) To protect strawberries from gray rot, it is useful to spray the bushes 2-3 times with a solution of iodine (10 ml per 10 liters of water) with an interval of 10 days.
7. Pine needles for pest control
Pine needles can be effectively used in the fight against pests in the garden. To do this, take 1 kg of needles per 5 liters of water, put in a dark place for a week. Stir the infusion daily in order to extract the necessary substances from the pine needles. Then strain the infusion. Before spraying, add water to the original volume. Adding 20 g of liquid soap to 5 liters of infusion increases its effectiveness. Apply an infusion of pine needles against aphids, suckers.
When you need to urgently prepare an infusion, you can take pine needles, pour boiling water over them in a 1: 1 ratio, leave for a day. Strain, add liquid soap - the preparation is ready. Such a strong infusion should be diluted with water 1:5 before use. The experience of gardeners has shown that spraying should be carried out in the late afternoon. The effect multiplies.
According to the norms, the advice is as follows: for a currant bush - 1.5 l, for a gooseberry bush - 1 l, for a raspberry bush - 2 l, for a square meter of strawberries - 0.2 l, for an adult tree - 10 l. Currants and gooseberries are sprayed at the very beginning of flowering in order to prevent the appearance of moths. Repeat the operation with an interval of 5 days.
An infusion of pine needles helps strawberries against gray rot - this is very important for preserving the crop. Pine suppresses gray rot during the ripening period of berries, so it’s a good idea to mulch strawberry plantings with pine needles.
8. How to protect strawberries from birds
To keep strawberries (strawberries) in the garden from birds, immediately after flowering, place various small objects painted in bright red that look like ripe berries (for example, walnuts, round pebbles) between the plants, painted in bright red. By the time the berries are ripe, curious birds will already understand that they have nothing to do here.
9. How to use bird (chicken, pigeon) droppings?
It should be remembered that bird droppings are a very concentrated fertilizer, it is impossible to overestimate the doses of its use. When digging the soil per 1 sq. m contribute 500 g of dry bird droppings. When planting plants, it is introduced into holes, nests no more than 8-10 g per plant. Effective liquid top dressing: fresh bird droppings are diluted with water in such a ratio - if the bird droppings are fresh - then 1 kg per 10 liters of water, and if dry - then 1 kg per 20 liters of water.
As soon as the bird droppings get wet, they mix it well and bring it under the plants, without leaving it to ferment. A solution of bird droppings is consumed at 2 liters per 1 sq. m. After pouring the soil around the plant with this solution, it should be covered with a layer of dry soil of 1 cm and poured with clean water.
10. How to burn garbage in a country house or plot
Burn garden waste in spring or late autumn - difficult task for many gardeners. Wet residues do not want to flare up. In this difficult matter will help ... a brick. Put it first in a dry place so that it dries well. Completely submerge the dry brick for three hours in kerosene. When it is soaked, wrap it in plastic wrap. Firstly, so that it does not “flavor” the air, and secondly, this way it will retain its combustible properties longer. When it will be necessary to burn the garbage, it is placed inside the prepared heap and set on fire.
It burns long and evenly. In order to extinguish the flame later, the brick is pulled out of the fire with a stick, covered with a wet thick rag.
11. How to sow carrots without the hassle?
Carrots have very small seeds. It is very inconvenient to sow them - sometimes a lot, sometimes a little gets into the groove of the bed. There is an exit! Take a small medicine bottle. Make a small hole in the lid, slightly larger than a carrot seed. Pour the seeds into a bottle and, closing the lid, sow on the garden bed like salt. You will get a very economical option.
12. Sharpening garden tools, secrets
We, gardeners and gardeners, need a good cutting tool: garden knives, shovels, secateurs, axes, choppers, flat cutters, saws. But, alas, it is very rare now to get a quality instrument. Choppers quickly become dull and jagged. Blades bend and break. Our heavy black soil does not withstand all modern tools. But these shortcomings are easily eliminated by treating them with a weak solution of table salt.
Gardeners have been using hardening and pointing a cutting tool in a solution of sodium chloride for a long time. I learned about this trick, about this method of sharpening from my father.
The solution is prepared simply: 1 glass of water + 1 tablespoon of salt. Water temperature matters. If the tool is made of hard and brittle (brittle) steel, then it should be slightly warm - + 28-35 ° C. And if the steel is soft, then the brine water should be even warmer - + 35-40 ° С. Of course, the volume of the solution depends on the size of the tool that you will be preparing for sharpening. The tool must be completely immersed in water.
If you are going to harden a new instrument with salt, then you first need to sharpen it, and then put it in a salt solution for half an hour. After that, it can already be finally sharpened and directed. Periodically rinse the tool in salt water while sharpening. The father is sure that with such sharpening the tool will not break - brittleness will disappear, hard steel will become more elastic. Not only that, this tool lasts longer and does not grind as quickly as when sharpening without the use of salt water.
13. Seed treatment before sowing
Seed treatment with hydrogen peroxide is not a completely new, but quite promising method of disinfecting and preparing seed material for sowing, especially in the absence of potassium permanganate, which is familiar to us, on sale. At the same time, hydrogen peroxide increases the sowing qualities of seeds, plant immunity, growth and development rates, and increases the yield.
To improve sowing qualities and stimulate germination, seeds are soaked in a 0.4% hydrogen peroxide solution for 12 hours, and difficult-to-sprout seeds, for example, beet seeds, parsley, for 24 hours.
For disinfection, the seed is treated in a 10% hydrogen peroxide solution for 20 minutes at a seed to solution weight ratio of 1:1. Then the seeds are washed with water and dried to the flowability required for sowing.
Soaking the seeds in a 0.4% hydrogen peroxide solution increases the germination energy, accelerates the emergence of seedlings by 2-4 days, increases the yield, and helps to reduce the nitrate content in the product. Treatment of seed material with a 10% hydrogen peroxide solution reduces the infection of seeds with pathogens.
Don't be lazy! Carry out the treatment and disinfection of seeds before sowing with hydrogen peroxide, and the result will not be long in coming.
14. How to protect trees in winter from hares and mice
It turns out that you can do without such time-consuming work as tying the boles of young trees with film, spruce branches and other materials. The trick is that hares can't stand some smells. For example, smell fish oil or stale fat. Lubricate the trunks with one of these "drugs". There is another way: hang bags of mothballs on the lower branches of the tree.
15. Sweet peppers have stopped setting new fruit.
How to "force" the pepper to tie new fruits? I read the answer to this question a long time ago, but I was in no hurry to publish it, as I myself forgot to follow it in practice. It often happens (for me, at least), you seem to know about something, but memory does not throw up the answer at the right time. And last year (summer 2018), just such a situation happened with sweet pepper. It bloomed on time, fruit set, but there were no new flowers. And I really saw that I would not see a big harvest. Quite by chance, looking through my notes, I saw this advice and decided that it would not be worse than it was. There won't be enough pepper anyway.
So the advice was that as soon as you saw that after the first ovaries of pepper no new buds are formed, you must ruthlessly cut off all the ovaries. The practical experience of expert gardeners assured that after such an operation, the pepper will begin to bloom from new force and by the end of the gardening season will give a good harvest.
Ruthlessly cut off all the ovaries, as you might have guessed, I could not. The worm of doubt: how to cut it all off, suddenly there will be nothing at all, did not let me do it on all plants. I still left some of the peppers with ovaries untouched. So what? The advisers were right!
After 10-12 days, peppers with torn fruits gave as many buds as I had never had before. Some of the ovaries and flowers fell off, but a sufficient number of fruits set. These peppers never stopped blooming again. The ovaries formed regularly, the plants themselves became more powerful, branched than those that I regretted. I have not been left without a harvest! By the way, peppers left with ovaries stood for a very long time without new ovaries. They appeared only closer to autumn, but they did not have time to fully mature.
What garden tricks do you know? What advice can you give to colleagues, gardeners and gardeners?
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We all wish we could be the best gardeners, right? But what habits make gardeners successful, what makes their gardens perfect? Here are some helpful gardening tips so you can take advantage of them and take your gardens to the next level.
Helpful Gardening Tips: Successful Farming Practices
Here are 15 habits of successful gardeners that, from our point of view, are low-cost, but for all their simplicity, give a mega effect:
1. Pay Attention to Annual Soil Restoration
At least once a year (and sometimes more often), you need to add any organic matter, humus and nutrients to the soil, such as compost, worm compost, chopped leaves, grass clippings, rotted manure, straw, perlite or sphagnum.
Contributed in previous years organic matter have already decomposed and been used by plants, the soil is depleted, so it is necessary to add organic matter to the soil every year.
2. Choose Your Plants Carefully
Find out which plants are best for your conditions. Are these plants of short and long days, cool or warm seasons, do they need sun or partial shade? If it's a perennial plant, will it survive the frosts that happen in your area?
Each area of the country has unique growing conditions, and one variety will grow best in one area and another in another. The information is usually given on the seed packet, and you can also get help. experienced gardeners your garden association and good nurseries in your area.
It is equally important to choose plants that you love. If a plant doesn't grow well in your area or you don't like to eat it, don't grow it! It is much more pleasant to spend time caring for your favorite plants.
3. Use mulch
Nature does not tolerate bare soil. A few inches of organic mulch, such as hay or wood chips, will retain moisture, block weed growth, even out soil temperatures, and, when decomposed, provide plant nutrition. A good mulch will also encourage earthworms and other beneficial organisms to grow in the garden by providing air to the roots of the plants.
4. Water and fertilize regularly
Fertilize the soil regularly, and not when the plants begin to signal a lack of nutrition with foliage. Pay attention to what your plants need. Do they need more water? Feel the soil, look at the leaves. Learn what healthy plants should look like and what leaf chlorosis looks like in order to catch a problem early.
Study the type of soil in your area, this affects how often you need to water the plants and apply organic fertilizers. Do a soil analysis if possible. The best way find out which nutrients are already in the soil and which ones it needs.
5. Compost
Nothing else does so much good for so little. You can use food scraps and cut plants to make a fantastic fertilizer instead of throwing them away.
Try using earthworms for even more nutritious compost. Almost everyone knows about their benefits, but the worms are very slowly settled on the site.
To speed up this process, create favorable conditions for the worms: place food waste and cut grass in any container without a bottom (pot or trough), which will increase the appetite of the worms. Once they have processed the waste, carefully collect it and spread it around the site.
And, of course, repopulate your little vermi farm. Or make the same model right in the garden, moistening it periodically. Such compost beds can be walking around the site: on the one hand, new organic matter is continuously added, and on the other, ready-made compost is taken.
Or once you compost a bunch of organic matter in the garden, you will get a long-lasting organic garden for many years. It will not be difficult to maintain its fertility by adding mulch and sowing green manure.
6. Use good tools
The right tool for the job is the most effective way to get things done. If you buy a tool good quality and take proper care of it, it will last you a lifetime.
Tools of the correct size and weight will make your job much easier. Remember that a fragile girl and a tall man need tools with different handle lengths. There are even tools for people with handicapped. And don't forget that kids need their own tools too. Use simple organizers to store garden tools and garden stuff.
7. Keep a garden journal
This is one of the most beneficial habits. Write down the varieties of plants, when you planted them, what problems you encountered. Also, make a note of where you plant each year to make it easier to keep track of your crop rotation.
To avoid making the same mistakes again and again, keep an eye on the weather, what you have done, what has a beneficial effect on your plants and what does not (yes, bad experiences also provide a lot of information in the future). You learn a lot of things just by reading your own garden journal entries over the years.
8. Take frequent walks in the garden
Try to walk in your garden more often, look at your plants from different angles. Learn to see the problem before it gets too big. Make it a habit to remove a few weeds each time if necessary. Such walks will help you become more observant, as well as save you from piling up tasks.
9. Set realistic goals
Yes, we all want to turn our entire yard, no matter the size, into a beautiful garden (or mini-farm), but do we have the time and energy to take care of all the plants we plant? Will we be able to collect, store and process the entire crop?
Think about what you can realistically handle. And start your garden and vegetable garden even smaller. Each year you can increase the amount of work you do if you find that you can handle it easily. But if you overburden yourself in the early years, there's a good chance you won't want to garden again. And there are a thousand such examples where the mother-in-law or mother-in-law beat off the love of gardening.
10. Be restrained and rational
Do not get carried away with large beds. Make not a huge dug field, but stationary beds with convenient passages. The optimal width is 60-100 cm (so that your hands can reach for processing and planting), and you can lay them in any length.
During the year on the same bed, you can grow several crops (extended crops), if you alternate them correctly. For example, in a free place after picking garlic, you can sow daikon radish, it is perfectly stored in winter.
11. Never stop learning
Join a gardening club or forum and learn from your fellow gardeners. Read books on modern gardening, go to a lecture or master class, visit a botanical garden with a tour, look for a hydroponic garden or apiary in your area.
Never stop your learning. There is so much to learn about that it will last a lifetime. In addition, by sharing knowledge with other gardeners, you can avoid costly mistakes.
12. Be patient and persistent
Gardening is one of those things that doesn't bring immediate results. Many plants take several months to grow, it can take several years before you see the first fruits on your fruit trees. You need to be patient and diligent until you get a harvest, and then the cycle begins anew.
13. Love nature
Gardening is more than just a desire to eat fresh vegetables. Nature always works in tandem, from bees pollinating your plants to birds eating caterpillars from their leaves. Your garden should become a harmoniously developed ecosystem where everything is interconnected.
14. Share
Many great relationships are formed when you share something. If you find something new and interesting - share it! If you have extra seeds or seedlings, give away/sell them. It can be a book or your knowledge that will help those who are just starting out. And don't hesitate to ask for advice.
15. Don't quit
Remember that some agricultural practices in horticulture and horticulture are rather fickle. What works one year may not work for you the next. Consult your gardening magazine, consult your gardening friends. And start again next spring, being a little wiser than last year.
For today, these are all smart tips for the garden. It seems that it turned out a little, but they quite harmoniously follow one from the other and affect many techniques from the practice of natural farming. Perhaps you also have useful tips on gardening and gardening, supplement them in the comments, we will be grateful.
A selection of the most useful tips for summer residents and gardeners.
1. Beetroot loves sprinkling and frequent, but careful loosening.
2. After the second thinning, the beets are fed with mineral fertilizers.
3. Best of all, beets grow in narrow beds, 3 rows wide with a maximum of 15-17 cm between plants.
4. Until the carrots have sprouts, they are watered regularly. When shoots appear, it is better not to water them for 12-15 days, except for dry days. This allows the roots to go as deep into the soil as possible.
5. If mustard is sown next to peas, its yield will be 2 times higher.
6. Dill is best sown in the sun, as in the shade it reduces the aroma of leaves. Do not add ash and lime under dill
7. Clematis is watered with lime milk in spring - 100 - 150 g per 10 liters of water.
8. In mid-July, the earth is carefully raked from the fruits of celery and wiped with a cloth. After 15 - 50 minutes, they spud again. Watering is carried out only after 2 - 3 days.
9. To stimulate the pouring of pumpkin fruits, its whips are pinned to the ground and rooted.
10. Seedlings of pumpkin crops, such as cucumber, squash, zucchini, can be grown in this way: cut the sod into 10x12 cm cubes, turn the roots down, make a depression and plant a seed in it.
11. In order for rhubarb petioles to grow thick, the soil under the plants is fertilized every year.
12. Do not feed beans, peas, onions, garlic, beans with nettle infusion.
13. Apple and pear require more potassium, and cherry - nitrogen.
14. If you stroke the tops of the seedlings every day for 1 - 2 minutes, it will not stretch. When touched, ethylene is released, which inhibits this process.
15. Nettle increases the resistance of nearby plants to diseases. That is why it is useful to mulch the aisles with chopped nettles.
16. Mustard green manures enrich the soil with phosphorus and sulfur, and also cleanse it of the bear and wireworm.
17. Onions will grow better if mustard grew in this place.
18. Repellent plants: lupine, celandine, nastrutium, calendula, marigolds, onion, kanufer, tansy, wormwood.
19. It is useful to mulch strawberries with coniferous litter. This will improve the taste of berries, and also help to cope with gray mold, weevil, ticks, wireworms. And mulching with ferns will help strawberries cope with nematodes and gray mold.
20. After a sharp cold snap, the plants are sprayed with immunocytophyte or zircon. And you can use an infusion of onion peel. Pour 10 liters of water into a 0.5 liter jar of husks, boil, leave for 12 hours, strain. When spraying, dilute with water in a ratio of 2:10.
21. When it gets colder, buckets with hot water, heated bricks are laid out on metal sheets.
22. To increase the yield on the site, it is necessary to attract pollinating insects. To do this, sow pink and white clover, fescue, bluegrass. Insects are also attracted by the flowers of white mustard and carrots.
23. In order for remontant strawberry varieties to have more abundant fruiting in the second half of summer, flower stalks are broken out in spring.
24. A good companion for cucumber is dill.
25. Beets sown along potatoes and tomatoes help them cope with late blight.
26. If you stick a nettle stalk next to each planted cabbage plant, then the cabbage will take root better.
27. From cabbage butterflies and aphids, dill, coriander, celery, marigolds, calendula are sown in the aisles of cabbage, and wormwood branches are also laid out.
28. When planting potatoes, a handful of ash is poured into the hole - it is a fertilizer and helps from the wireworm.
29. To increase productivity and improve taste in the first half of June, garlic is first watered with salt water - 2 tbsp. l. for 10 liters of water, and then ordinary.
30. With poor growth of carrots, the beds with this crop are watered with a salt solution - 1 tbsp. l. for 10 liters of water.
31. Cucumber is demanding on moisture, especially during flowering and fruiting. However, at the beginning of flowering, it is better to reduce watering, and then reinforce again. This contributes to faster fruit formation.
32. In hot weather, cucumbers, along with abundant watering, combine frequent spraying.
33. Cucumber pollen dies at t>30ºC Therefore, at this time, containers with water should be placed in the greenhouse.
34. Low temperatures and sharp changes in day and night temperatures are the reasons for the deterioration palatability cucumber. Also, cucumbers do not tolerate drafts at all.
35. Increased content carbon dioxide in the air accelerates the ripening of fruits and increases the yield. Therefore, it is useful to put a container with mullein in greenhouses and mix it from time to time.
36. If at the beginning of summer several fruits are set on pepper plants, and flowering has stopped, then these fruits must be plucked. Plants after that will begin to bloom with redoubled energy and by the end of the season will give a high yield.
37. For influx fresh air to the roots of pepper, loosen the soil more often and prevent the formation of a soil crust.
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