If you treat the earth philosophically love this farmer is sown green manure before winter could be called a man of gratitude collected from the fields and gardens wealth.Soil, giving us little by little their fertility and got nothing in return for it, a little exhausted, giving more and more meager harvests.Earth can not be restored even with the latest chemicals and fertilizers.Nature itself dictates the right decision: fertilizer should only be natural!The fact that the nature of the winter freezes, can only talk so yeah writers.Tell me about this man who knows and loves the earth.He smiles: "It is at this time the forces recruited!ยป
Sowing time
Why is better to sow the green manure before winter?Those who prefer natural agriculture, abandoning the deep tillage, know that the goods of this work easily operate the plant.Green manure perfectly structured soil.Floating roots, they perforate the set of tubules (vertical, horizontal), and the land becomes more porous.It is much easier to penetrate the moisture in the air circulates better.Create more comfortable conditions for the residents of the soil.With the arrival of winter, the roots of green manure crops die, and to business start frosts.Freezing channels are further loosen the soil, increasing its porosity.You get a kind of "biological plow."It turns out that sow green manure before winter and more practical and convenient.Although if you can, then further costs to do more in the spring.
What to sow green manure?
for autumn sowing suit only fast-growing and cold-resistant plants.Very good enrich the soil oilseed radish and white mustard.Alternatively, the mixture may be considered.This may be a variant of collecting phacelia, oats and mustard.The main thing - to find the right plants.Do not sow successive crops of the same family.For example, do not place the beans (or peas) after mustard, cabbage, lupine, radish.They have some diseases and pests.It is important to remember also that different culture enrich the soil differently.Some of them also inhibit the growth of weeds.Determine for what purpose you need a green manure.If you are interested in composting or mulching, Pancake sow radish.Enrich the soil with nitrogen to help vetch, lupine, clover.Rye and oats (as green manure in the fall) to loosen the earth, restore its structure and suppress the growth of weeds.
how to sow green manure before winter?
best time - early autumn.If the beds are still busy some vegetables, a method used podsevnyh: until the harvest will ripen, sprout and grow green manure.Plants, nurses must alternate.They are seeded, as usual, in the shallow soil loosened.It is not necessary to make the groove (on large areas is awkward and troublesome), you can simply scatter the seeds.Then on top of enough "walk" rake.Green manure before winter often sown before early planted crops: onions, lettuce, potatoes.They can even leave until May - they just gain maximum green mass, will have time to nourish the soil micronutrients.Some farmers plowed their land in a couple of weeks before planting other crops.Perhaps for large volumes that works mainly machinery, it is really the best option.However, the benefit will be greater if you leave the green manure to fall, just squinting (cut, for example, with plane) to a depth of 3 cm. First, you get an excellent mulch, secondly, the roots of plants, nurses will continue to loosen the ground.But in the case of plowing their work is reduced to zero.Benefits will only be from the green mass.Cut off green manure before they bloom.If the plant will grow, it will land less nitrogen will rot much longer, but not in time to decompose residues may sour.
