2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
In spring, young greens and fresh vegetables look so tempting on the counters of markets and shops, and the body weakened during the winter requires vitamins. But why spend extra money on an expensive purchase when you can harvest your own early harvest, which will definitely not be processed with dangerous chemicals. How to ensure that early vegetables are removed from your acres as soon as possible? Early spring beds will help with this
Measures for warming up the soil in the spring bed
You should start arranging early beds already in late March - early April. This year, the winter has been greatly delayed and the area set aside for the spring garden will have to work hard to clear of snow. They also remove the remains of mulch, because this place will need to be thoroughly warmed up. And charcoal will help in this, which will work like a magnet for the spring sun. Another useful material that is also advised to be distributed over the surface of future beds is ash. Then all this economy is hidden under a transparent film so that the remnants of the ice melt and the soil warms up. If there is an opportunity to fork out, you can use agrolonco.
The area for such beds is allotted arbitrarily. For a family, a spring bed with a length of about 5 m and a width of about 70 cm will be enough - for 4 rows.
To protect against April frosts, it is advisable to place arcs over the beds and cover them with covering material. Well, if such a practice becomes a tradition, it makes sense to think about building wooden frames with glass, which are more durable, and it is more convenient to work with them.
What to sow in the spring garden
The heated bed is used for growing a whole conveyor belt of different crops. First of all, frost-resistant crops are settled on it, given that the crops are sown in April. For this, lettuce and radish are suitable. Cultures with a longer development period - carrots, onions, beets, kohlrabi, Chinese radish - get along well next to them. Sowing with seeds or planting seedlings.
If the spring bed was conceived as a temporary phenomenon to obtain early greenery, and then would be used for another purpose - to grow more thermophilic summer crops - then you can proceed as follows. After the soil thaws and warms up, you can sow lettuce and radish. Also here it will turn out to settle watercress, arugula, dill. The harvest will ripen quickly and your table will be enriched with fresh vitamin greens. And by the time the tomato, pepper, zucchini are planted, this area has already been freed from early crops.
When it is possible to grow heat-loving crops in greenhouses, and this area is used for a longer time than the window from April to May, then the crops of radish and lettuce can be alternated with rows of carrots, onion seedlings. When the first harvest of lettuce and radish is harvested, space will be cleared for the growth of carrot root crops and the development of onions.
Another plus of such joint cultivation is the "mutual assistance" of plants in scaring away pests, which, like us, are just waiting to feast on fresh greens right in the beds:
• if radish, like other cabbage, suffers from a cruciferous flea, then in the company of onions and carrots, this attack is not terrible for her;
• the onion fly does not go where the carrot grows;
• in turn, the carrot fly avoids the beds on which the onion grows.
Another problem that gardeners who have not calculated the sowing time may face is the appearance of a flower arrow on early vegetables. This happens with radishes, spinach and other vegetables. In order not to depend on the length of daylight hours, as well as the vagaries of the weather with its sharp changes in temperature, you should pay attention to the description on the package and choose the product where it is indicated that this is a non-shooting variety.
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