Harvesting Rules

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

Fertilizers, when applied correctly, can effectively increase the yield of garden crops. In this case, the main thing is not to overfeed or underfeed the plant with them. These are the rules recommended by experienced gardeners to increase the yield of vegetables, herbs, berries and fruits. In all the rules, fertilizers appear as the main "actor"

Rule 1

When choosing fertilizers, you need to be an innovator. You should not stock up on only organic species or only mineral ones. Fertilizers need to be used in a complex manner in order to get the maximum yield from the plants or the decorative type that the plant is capable of.

Rule 2

The measure should also be present at least in the use of organic fertilizers, at least based on mineral mixtures. For example, those gardeners who annually deplete the land or sprinkle it with kilograms of azophoska every summer season are fundamentally wrong.

The manure "works" as an organic fertilizer for three years after it is distributed on the land. And not every plant needs it. For good, they only need to use certain places on the site for plants that need manure.

In turn, azophoska in the singular should not be added to the soil annually. It is necessary to dilute these fertilizers and adjust them with compost, other types of fertilizers and dressings, for example, herbal infusions prepared by ourselves.

Rule 3

Please note that fertilizers can contain either only macronutrients, or micronutrients, or both. The latter types of fertilizers, which contain complexes of valuable substances, are preferable. Such fertilizers are offered for sale in the form of liquid, also in granules, powdery. Among such complex fertilizers, the most effective are called:

• Gumistar

• Darina

• Giant

• Agricola

• Orton and many others.

Rule 4

In order to correct correctly what fertilizers your soil lacks, in order to get a large and high-quality harvest, you need from time to time, at least once every three years (especially if you are not happy with the yield), take soil samples on your land plot to a laboratory for acidity testing soil, humus content in it, and other elements. With this information on hand, you will not blindly add various fertilizers (sometimes not the cheapest) to the soil and thereby harm it, let alone get a good harvest.

Rule 5

If the laboratory analysis of the soil from the site showed a deficiency of any individual element, you cannot do without the purchase of fertilizer with this single substance. Such fertilizers include ammonium nitrate, boric acid and other types of dressings.

Rule 6

It is necessary to apply correctly selected fertilizers to the site not at once, but fractionally, several times during the entire summer season. Each vegetable or other crop in the garden and in the garden requires its own number of dressings and their amount. In this case, nothing can be done "by eye". This is one of the most important rules of an experienced and successful gardener.

Rule 7

If during the summer cottage the weather is sunny and warm, then fertilizing should be done once every week. If the rains are charged, it is cloudy, cool, there is no heat, then you need to fertilize the soil and plants once every two weeks. With such a "compact" dosage of fertilizers, taking into account the weather conditions, plants will not accumulate harmful nitrates in themselves.

Rule 8

It is not worth using the same fertilizer for the entire summer season. Take note of the following point. If the fertilizer (in its composition) contains more than five percent nitrogen, then use such a fertilizer from spring to mid-summer.

After mid-summer, while preparing plants for winter, the amount of nitrogen fertilization should be drastically reduced, if not removed at all. Since it becomes harmful to plants during this period of the year.

It is advisable after July 15 to start using either other types of fertilizers that do not contain nitrogen, or that it should be no more than five percent in the composition. This whole system is suitable for perennial flower beds, ornamental and berry bushes, fruit trees. Vegetables are grown during one season, so they are fed according to a different system that does not require a reduction in nitrogen in the diet, from mid-summer to autumn.

Rule 9

When mixing fertilizers, be sure to read the instructions for them. Not all types of fertilizers can be mixed with each other. Also, you should not store a solution from a mixture of different types of fertilizers for a long time, since it not only loses its qualities, but also accumulates harmful substances that subsequently poison the plants.