Mulching with sawdust - long known to gardeners welcome, "peeped" in nature.In the forests of the natural mantle of dead plant material protects the soil (and, hence, the roots) from washing, drying, erosion.Also can be used sawdust chips (or pieces of bark), leaves, paper, grass, gravel (used more for decoration), film.
Mulching with sawdust - a wonderful way to enrich poor soil in which the plants, even forming a lot of the ovaries, if you do not die, they lose benefits.A layer of mulch allows the root system to grow by absorbing fertilizer and much needed moisture in the heat.The surface layer does not harden, which means, among other things, the earth is loose and roots can "breathe."
Mulching with sawdust can be compared with the creation of paradise for soil and surface bacteria.Sheltered from direct sunlight, they absorb a lot of mulch and recycling it leaves fertile ground.Furthermore, such a covering material - a real pantry for soil insects and other organisms involved in the improvement of the soil structure.
Mulching with sawdust tomatoes, for example, a must in areas that are prone to prolonged droughts.The open ground is heated rapidly, and with it - and the roots of the plants.Frequent watering is not saving, and sometimes even harmful (especially daytime watering, after which the water is seeping through the hot soil, reaches to the roots).The only way that would preserve the harvest - to hide the ground with mulch.
second example - mulching strawberries filings.Admission will not only increase the yield, but also to keep the berries clean and undamaged, as they do not touch the ground, and therefore do not rot.And collect a strawberry is much more convenient.
It should probably also remember that the sawdust mulch prevents soil cool in summer and reduces soil freezing in winter.Mulch suppresses (or even eliminates) the growth of weeds.
How to spend mulching with sawdust?
Firstly, it is worth remembering the following: a layer of mulch under berries (any) must be kept.If you do not plan on making "chemistry" of the sawdust mixed with a portion of the manure (humus already).If manure is applied in the fall (in the winter), the nitrate content in the fruit will not increase.
Secondly, what the soil is fertile, the mulch decomposes faster.After it a thin layer of humus, accelerating the next layer of mulch.The formation of fertile soil is slow, so you will see results after three or four years after the first mulching.
Third, can not be covered by thick layers of mulch heavy soils, otherwise it will rot the bottom, especially in the rainy season.The permissible height of covering material on clay soils - 2 cm.
Fourth, the first mulching carried out only in the summer (in some regions - in the spring), immediately after sowing or transplanting.Prior to that we need a good, abundant watering.Mulch at this time should be carefully milled.Places shoots should be marked.
For winter mulch is best a mixture of sawdust, crop residues and manure nedoprevshego.The layer thickness determined by the type of soil (5 cm heavy and up to 10 cm on light soils).
