Gardening has long been for many of our compatriots are not just a hobby, but a way to get organic vegetables for your table.In addition, many in his backyard just spend time usefully, combining agriculture and landscaping.But do not forget about the new trends in gardening, which include organic farming.Where to start and what it is all about - organic farming?
Introduction to
in any modern edition Horticultural a lot of talk about what organic farming.Where to start, and that means this concept?It's simple.Today one can hardly find a person who would not have heard about the dangers of pesticides and herbicides, but the percentage of use of these substances is reduced very slowly.
And if in an industrial environment, where huge area cultivated, their use can be explained and justified in some circumstances, the personal sector is not abused.Many believe that the use of chemicals at all should be completely abandoned.
not use chemicals!
Proponents of such views are promoting natural farming, based on the use of only natural fertilizers and insect pests.By total ban fall herbicides, as instead proposed a special agricultural machinery: wide aisle, narrow and well accessible for weeding ridge.
But the main thing - all gardeners, follow the methods of organic soil cultivation, it is proposed not to dig the ground.This is characterized by organic farming.So, where to start and what to do?
Getting Started
But in general, you can not dig the soil?How can I safely move to this method from the traditional agriculture?After all, many of us are firmly Harden in mind that digging the soil is the key to her fertility.
Do not be afraid to experiment!Please try not to use a shovel.Change it to the fork: natural organic farming gives you the opportunity to do not dig, but only loosen the soil in the spring.In addition, the purchase ploskorez to handle the aisles of weeds.
Making beds
The beds and the space between them align the formula 1: 2.The optimum would be 40 cm wide beds with aisles of 80 cm. Since the beds themselves are constantly in this place, after a couple of years they will not have to dig at all: in the soil humus accumulates, it becomes soft and loose.
Start mulch between rows.For this purpose, weed grass, sawdust, peat, humus.This can be done throughout the year, as the germination of weeds.First, you can select only a small area where it will be used only organic farming.Where to begin the transition to it in a global sense?
waste - in the profits!
If you live in a private home, it is unforgivable foolish to abandon the use of kitchen waste.Where do you usually Virgo cleaning potatoes by cutting fruits and vegetables?How and where to take away the food remnants in the form of old soups, cereals and the like?Probably you throw out, and because of all this, you can make an excellent natural fertilizer - compost!
This unique fertilizer that is not for nothing is loved by gardeners who advocate organic farming.Where to start its production?First, dig a hole (size - depending on the amount of waste) a depth of about 50-60 cm. Fill it with straw, weeds and other debris.You can also use wood dust.In the same ditch begin to pour liquid food waste.In the hot season the compost heap should be from time to time to moisturize.
Typically, fertilizer is ready in two or three years.As we have said, compost can also be used as mulch.In addition, in the autumn they fall asleep surface ridges, and in the spring of this layer gently loosened pitchforks.
Green manure - "our everything!"
know that you can replace the manure?Three crop legumes equivalent to one serving of manure.This is the meaning of another key concept of organic farming.It is a green manure.So-called culture, which are planted before or after sowing of basic seed, and then plowed into the ground.
As in our case, we have agreed to do without digging the soil, vegetation and trample down just slightly loosen the forks.In the fall of it even easier: in the green manure just pour a layer of rotting leaves.Spring hold it until such time until no stable frozen, and then removed.By that time, all the plants have perepreyut and become an excellent fertilizer.
What is the meaning of green manure?As we have said, three of seed alfalfa or clover equal making one portion of manure.Legumes absorb nitrogen from the air, that other cultures do not know how.In addition, they contain a lot of tissue micro-and macro, which will be perfectly assimilated by plants.In short, you will be a rich harvest is guaranteed!
few tips on potato
The above can equally well be used for all vegetable crops, which are grown in our climate zone.Their high yields will always ensure that organic farming.Potatoes, which in our country has long had a well-deserved reputation of the "second bread", and can be grown using some "organic" methods.
Surely even someone from our gardeners know the situation, when the garden is simply no one to plow.Square rather big, and tractor fuel and costly.In this case, you can grow potatoes under straw.This technology in our country is relatively new, but it has already deservedly become very, very popular.
To get a rich harvest, first be processed using the soil surface with plane, loosen the top 5-6 cm of soil.It can be put to the same layer of compost.Attention!Compost should be fully humus, because otherwise it will vyprevayut and tubers are simply rot.
equidistant from each other (30-40 cm) laid the tubers, and then covered them with a layer of straw (about 30 cm).Once the tops of potatoes in the fall will begin to dry up, just shoot straw and collect tubers.Simple, fast, without crippling lower back work.
Cucumbers
the way, and how the cucumbers?Organic farming produces high yields of this crop also.Make it a snap.
Ever heard of a bed warm?In our case it is necessary to do its analog.On the ridge stacked layer of autumn leaves, food waste and other organic matter, after which the overlay film.Not yet will come frozen, the mixture is warmed and partially rot.
spring shoot a film, and a layer of decomposed plant remains stacked approximately 0.3 m of land.Planted cucumbers.Get a bunch of autumn loose fork, resulting in the fertile layer can again be put vegetable leftovers, but it is better to use it to grow any other crops the following year.
That's what real organic farming.Tomatoes can be grown in exactly the same way.In both cases, to cover cucumbers or tomatoes from early morning frost and cold spring is better to use a film - it will get really impressive crop that you will never forget!
