One of the most common problems that reduce yields, is the impoverishment of the soil.An effective method of dealing with this process is the use of green manure or green manure.Sowing green manure crops improves soil fertility, enriching it with humus.
Green manure are grown to the stage of active vegetation, and then buried in the soil in a powdered form or plowed to a depth of entirely.
Features
rye Winter rye as a green manure is widespread throughout Russia thanks to the many advantages of its use.One of them is the availability of seed of rye, which is due to the low cost.Rye as a green manure - a fairly undemanding plant that grows in most soils, including acidic and slightly alkaline.
Winter rye has a strong root system, which is the beginning of winter can reach 150 cm. These are long and strong roots are able to extract from the soil hard minerals, process them into digestible crop plant species.Young plants at embedding quickly decompose, enriching the soil phosphorus and potassium.In addition to its nutritional function, rye as a green manure because of the complex structure of the root system well it loosens the soil, making it easy and full of air and moisture, prevents soil erosion.
For planting of green manure applied areas liberated from the plant in the fall after harvest, which is an additional advantage for the owners of small plots.Rye as a green manure tolerates low temperatures and frosts up to -20 °, is rapidly increasing the green mass, which in the winter turns into a high-quality organic fertilizer.It is worth noting that many of the green manure crops require grinding, for example, lupine, mustard, rape.Rye as a green manure just buried in the soil at its spring treatment.
Rye against pests and weeds
nice feature is scaring some insects and prevent diseases of crop plants.Reduces the number of wireworms destroyed pathogens and harmful bacteria.Effectively growing rye plot to get rid of the nematodes.Planting of winter rye for two years reduces the number of weeds such as couch grass, sow thistle, bindweed.
Wondering about when to sow rye green manure, many gardeners act rationally and implement crop as the release area of the plant, starting in September and ending in mid-late November.The optimum temperature for germination of seeds - 6 ...- 8 °.Even in the absence of snow cover winter rye remains viable.
spring need to plow land, which was seeded rye.It must be done as soon as the snow melted to leave an adequate supply of moisture plants, winter rye as much soil dries.
valuable property of rye as a green manure is the use for the development of new sites.
