What To Do For A Summer Resident In Winter: Useful Tips

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

In the fall, the gardening activity ended, and there was a lot of time for other things. Let's talk about how to spend the winter time productively for an avid summer resident

Increasing knowledge

Winter is the perfect time to look for new information on growing flowers, garden and garden plants. In the evenings, instead of watching endless serials, you can read, study messages on the forums, watch educational videos.

Everyone can find topics that interest him, for example, study innovative methods of growing tomatoes or potatoes, get acquainted with new hybrid varieties, read reviews. During the summer season, daily chores will not allow you to calmly engage in self-education and study of theory.

A lot of useful information is provided by printed publications. They are sold, you can subscribe to them (for a year, 3 or 6 months). I will list the most popular magazines:

• "Household economy";

• "Pensioner at the dacha";

• "My favorite dacha";

• "Garden";

• "My favorite vegetable garden";

• "My beautiful garden";

• "Russian Garden";

• "Summer Season";

• "House in the Garden";

• "My beautiful dacha";

• "Gardener and gardener";

• "Floriculture".

Many magazines have electronic versions, so you don't need to spend money on buying paper versions. For questions of interest, you can go to the forums of summer residents, just write your current topic in the search engine and add the word "forum".

There are many sites for summer residents on the network (Asienda.ru; Country House; 7dach, Ogorod.ru, etc.). On the Yandex start page, there is a resource of publications "Zen", the headings in it are selected according to interests. There are about 20 blocks for gardeners in Zen.

Start a notebook for notes, create a folder with files on your computer. It is helpful to note your cultivation experiences.

Learn from experience

There are many publications on new and old / "reborn" techniques. It is useful to study them and, possibly, reconsider your approaches to gardening work. It is useful to count the publications of Nikolai Kurdyumov: "Smart Garden", "Smart Garden", "..vineyard", etc.

An interesting experience of creating narrow beds, called "Mittlider Agriculture". On six acres, it is important to use the method of "vertical farming", there are many ways and interesting approaches.

It is useful to get acquainted with the methods of Masanobu Fukuoka on natural farming (refusal from loosening / weeding, from chemical fertilizers and chemical remedies). Books on the topic: "The revolution of one straw", "In harmony with nature."

Many people became interested in Galina Kizima's practical advice. With her Ph. D., she is actively involved in crop yields, and thanks to her, the concept of a “smart garden” has emerged. Techniques based on organic farming and specific cultivation of the soil give good results. Many articles and books have been published under the authorship of G. Kizima. The basic idea is to DO NOT weed, DO NOT water, DO NOT dig.

Summer cottage planning

In winter, it is easier to devote time to planning the spring and summer work. I will cite several areas of activity:

• think over the schedule of sowing seeds / seedlings, adjust the dates with the recommendations of the lunar calendar;

• design flower beds / beds, paint a list of the required crops;

• to revise the planting material, purchase the missing seeds;

• make a list / purchase required fertilizers, plant protection products;

• think over the issue of gardening tools, buy missing or advertising novelties.

Home garden

For many summer residents, without land work, the blues begins. If you want to grow, create mini-vegetable gardens on the windowsill. Germinate seeds for vitamin supplements (wheat, alfalfa, flax, green buckwheat, mung bean, beans, etc.). Quickly rises and builds greens cross-lettuce, arugula, lettuce.

A succulent feather gives onions. Place the onions firmly in a plastic tray filled with water. Get your first cut in ten days. Since January, you can sow some crops for seedlings.