Correct Beds

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

A good harvest has many ingredients. One of them is the arrangement of the correct beds. Seasoned gardeners are familiar with many of the subtleties that should be taken into account when building beds. And beginners often make annoying small errors that sharply reduce the yield of the beds, which took a lot of time and effort from a person during their construction

Let's try to remember some simple moments when building nutritious beds for vegetables and herbs, without which the vegetable garden looks like an orphan.

* Since our Luminary, which warms the soil and illuminates the aboveground part of the plants, moves from east to west, the beds should be located from south to north … Then all daylight hours will be at the disposal of plants, which will have a beneficial effect on their development and growth.

* So that the soil in the garden bed after the winter cold warms up faster, the bed is arranged

with a slope to the south. The slope will promote faster plant growth and accelerate the fruiting period. Indeed, the faster the soil warms up in the garden, the earlier you can sow.

*

The width of the beds should be convenient for both plants and a vegetable grower. Plants should not be crowded in the garden. Only people are not offended by tightness. Roots grow ugly and tasteless because of the crowded conditions. And for a vegetable grower, the distance to the rows of growing vershoks should be within the reach of the hand, so that it is convenient to weed and loosen the aisle after watering and rains, without harming the plants.

* Not worth doing

too long beds … Their appearance puts pressure on the human psyche, discouraging the desire to care for such a bed. Indeed, at one glance from one end of the garden to the other, hands drop down and refuse to do weeding or loosening. But how pleasant it is to loosen a short bed when the result of labor is quickly visible. Then the mood improves, and work is not a burden, but a joy. This is especially true if children are involved in weeding. Indeed, in childhood, both the trees seem large, and the beds are endless lengths.

* Don't skimp on

width of paths between the beds.

* Depending on the area of residence, the beds are arranged below the surface of the earth, or raised above the surface. The type of bed depends on the speed of snow melting in the spring. If in your garden the snow melts early and quickly and there are problems with irrigation water, then it is better to make a bed “

drowned . If dampness prevails on the site, then the beds are more expedient

to raise

* After a heavy downpour that pleases the grower, the beds quickly become covered with a dry crust, which prevents the penetration of oxygen to the roots of the plant, which creates discomfort for the plant. Therefore, the beds are mandatory

loosening … The soil should be loosened after abundant watering. It is believed that loosening is much more important for the soil than watering. If the soil is very dense and does not lend itself to loosening, punctures should be made with the forks to the depth of the horns, pulling out the forks without loosening. This will make it easier for the roots to absorb the rainwater.

* To keep rain or irrigation water in the soil longer and not evaporate with the first rays of the hot summer sun, use

mulching, that is, covering the surface of the earth with hay, sawdust, finely chopped grass, husks from seeds, needles, covering materials … Mulching saves human strength, reducing the amount of watering, and also protects the soil from overheating, which negatively affects the growth of vegetable roots. For example, potato tops feel great when the thermometer reads above plus 20 degrees, but the potato tubers, when the soil is heated above this mark, stop gaining weight, and therefore the harvest will turn out to be deplorable.

These are simple techniques at the beginning of the cultivation of a garden and the arrangement of beds on it will help save energy, time, but at the same time get a decent harvest of vegetables, for which the whole gardening economy was started.