Doctors Siderates

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

Soil is a living organism. Like all living things, she needs food to maintain her fertility. For this, people have created many different fertilizers. Traditional manure is full of pitfalls, and getting it every day is becoming more and more difficult and expensive. Prices for mineral fertilizers also bite. In such a situation, green fertilizers and green manures come to the rescue

Benefits of siderates

To acquire green manure in your farm does not require large financial investments, transportation costs. You just need to buy plant seeds, which in the process of their growth improve the structure and composition of the soil.

Siderates, popular among gardeners, are distinguished by fast and friendly shoots. Without requiring additional feeding, they quickly build up green mass, which will become a breeding ground for soil organisms. And their roots provide shelters for soil bacteria that can accumulate free nitrogen, thereby enriching the soil with the main food product for all plants.

Vegetable tops are used as green manure, because plants accumulate large reserves of nutrients in them. Sometimes, the tops contain much more useful elements than root crops, for which people work all summer in the beds.

Criteria for the selection of green manure

When choosing a type of green manure for the soil, a number of their abilities should be taken into account:

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Vegetation ability. Siderat plants should emerge quickly, grow green mass in a short time, and develop a powerful branched root system.

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Stability. They should not be intimidated by late spring or early autumn frosts, that is, they should be cold-resistant.

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Unpretentiousness. Plants could grow on any soil, because, as a rule, it is necessary to improve poor, clayey, sandy and other unfavorable lands.

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The possibility of growing seeds. To have your own seeds, the process of growing them should be as simple as possible.

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Dormant period of seeds. Many seeds require a dormant period before they can be used again. For green manure, it is desirable that there is no such period so that, having collected the seeds, they do not store them in specially created conditions, but immediately sow on new plots.

Selection of green manure

After harvesting vegetables, do not rush to part with the tops, burning it or dragging it into the compost heap, groaning under its weight. Cover the tops in the ground during the autumn digging, chopping it into smaller pieces. In this way, you return to the earth some of the nutrients consumed by vegetables during cultivation. In addition, you will provide nourishment to soil workers who will help you improve soil structure. You can close up the tops of any vegetable crop. It is only important that it be healthy tops, without signs of disease and rot.

In addition, catch crops such as beans, peas, beans, sarepta and mustard mustard, oats, and perennial lupine should be used as siderates.

Perennial lupine

Lupine, unpretentious to soil and cold-resistant, is multifunctional.

He will decorate the site with his powerful bushes with beautiful leaves and bright spike-shaped inflorescences; will enrich even poor sandy soil with nitrogen, harboring nitrogen fixing bacteria on its roots.

In one place, lupine can grow up to 8 years without unnecessary hassle from the gardener. It can be used as a decorator for outbuildings, compost heaps, mowing the green mass in parts during flowering for planting in beds.

Leafy and Sarepta mustard

Cold-resistant mustard sprouts at 2-3 degrees of heat, allowing it to be used as an early spring green manure. You just need to remember that she does not like the high level of groundwater, which in spring comes close to the surface of the earth. Mustard prefers moderately acidic soils.

If you sow mustard in the summer, then by the autumn digging of the earth, it will give a good harvest of roots and green mass. In addition to improving the soil, mustard sown in the near-trunk circles of fruit trees will also perform the function of protecting against pests.