Efficient garden: optimize sowing

According to the statistics: among buyers of suburban areas is increasing the share of 30-40 year olds year olds, that, finally, imbued with stories of parents about how in the 90 garden helped support his family. Cottage does not cease to be a favorite place of rest, but becomes one of the ways to improve the family budget.

KAN24 (FORUMHOUSE User):

In the mid-90s I spent a whole year did not receive a salary. That's when I'll tell you, we just lived from the garden. Thanks to him, almost all of his was. And put then all that can be saved for the winter: and the onion and garlic, and radishes, and squash, and even remember the beans were planted.

In this review, we will not consider giving as a way to make money, but let's talk about what methods and what crops will be able to guarantee to provide you with the fruits, without asking a lot of effort and time.

How to sow?

Some gardeners have sown seedlings, but most while purchasing seeds. Given the rapid rise in prices of vegetables and fruit in supermarkets, it's hard not to fall into the "procurement of seed hype", but better still find their real needs: Not all seeds are stored for a long time, so it will be a pity, if you spend time and money nothing.

The fastest way to come into disrepair celery seeds: they are stored for two years at most. Not long retains its quality onions - just two or three years, a little longer - a carrot and eggplant - from two to four years. Tomatoes, cabbage, beets, corn, radish and radish can be stored 4-5 years, green beans and other beans - six years, and the most centenarians among seeds - cucumbers, melons, pumpkins and melons - they can sow and after eight years Storage.

By the way, here's a good way to prepare for planting onions (grow very large and without arrows).

happy_kate (User FORUMHOUSE):

Dry the bulblets and about week stored at a temperature of 20 - 25 degrees. Before the landing soak for three hours in salted water (tablespoon per one liter of warm water). Then again rinsed and soaked for 2 hours manganese (dark solution) to kill the germs and disease. Then again, rinse, dry and put a little bit in the wet sulcus. Be sure to pour the sand back.

How many and what kind of vegetables you need to plant to feed in one person for a year on average? There are different calculations based on different formulas, we suggest you get acquainted with the calculations that turned out at the user's FORUMHOUSE Mariska (calculation was made for a family of three people and a common kitchen garden area of ​​48 m2):

• carrot ~ 4 m - 2-1 packet of seeds;
• beet ~ 1.6 m2 - 1/2 bag of seeds;
• beans to spray ~ 4.8 m2 - 1/2 = 10 seeds sachet bushes (grade 2);
• on cucumbers ground m2 ~ 4 - 2 = 20 seeds sachet bushes (Grades 4-5);
• courgettes / zucchini at ~ 4.8 m2 - PA1 sachet = 3 + 3 zucchini squash;
• onion 4 m2 - 1.0 kg.sevka;
• Garlic winter by about 7.5 m2 - 1.0 kg.chesnoka of "vegetable department stores";
• herbs (dill, cilantro, parsley leaf, lettuce) / radish at ~ 1.6 m2-1 sachet;
• on peas ~ 0.8 M2-1 / 2 packets.

As you can see, the garden is quite small, but yield to it and enough for a meal, and on the blank, and friends to share. A section in the 3-4 ha would be enough to fully supply of fruits and vegetables a family of 3-4 people.

Here is how the garden from the wearer of our portal zoja2 greenhouses, which grow cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers, and a few beds 0,8h4 m: one under carrots, one - a beet, two under the bow and two at different greens, cabbage under two, one under and one for squash peas. Weaving potato crop yields 40 buckets. Vegetables and blanks enough for three families.

And if in the 90 gardeners try to grow as many vegetables that are suitable for long-term storage and processing into canned food, but now all have freezers. When freezing plants retain their valuable qualities. In addition, own-mix of frozen vegetables are always better than the purchase, half ice.

How to check the quality of seeds?

This is one of the most important questions: what seeds are considered "good", and how to make sure that they are really good? Besides germination, there are a number of indicators that measure the quality of the seed: germination, uninfected weeds, pests and diseases, uniformity in size, color, smell, polnovestnost. If to look at the seeds are not credible, it seems some of dead, it makes sense to test them in the 5% saline. The good seeds will sink quickly to the bottom of the container, substandard will float.

Seed germination is usually check germination, by "on a napkin," Take ten pieces of seeds, Place them on a damp cloth or paper towel, wrap or cover with a second wet cloth. Put on a saucer, from drying out, cover package, put in a warm place. Make sure to wipe all the time remained damp. Once the seeds begin to sprout, see how many hatched at once - if 7 out of 10, the germination rate of 70%, if 3 out of 10 - is 30%.

Small (user FORUMHOUSE):

Actually, wait after the first day or two of the following, and the total number is considered% germination.

That's what should have seeds germination in accordance with State standards:

• carrot - 45%;
• beet - 50%;
• spinach - 50%;

• cauliflower - 50%;
• cabbage - 60%;
• Eggplant - 60%;
• pepper - 60%;
• Tomatoes - 65% (cv exhaust gas), 85% - for greenhouses;
• radish - 65%;
• radish - 65%;
• -70% cucumbers (variety for greenhouses - 85%);
• peas - 75%;
• melon - 75%;
• watermelon - 80%;
• Pumpkin - 80%;
• beans - 80%.

Tested on FORUMHOUSE formula of good harvests:

Select early maturing varieties of peppers and tomatoes, and maturing hybrids of self-pollinating cucumbers.

Plus - high the agricultural technician and annual crop rotation for the prevention of disease and maintenance of soil fertility.

Agronomists, growers believe that lovers should not take up the cultivation of vegetables seeds. This is a complex activity that requires professional knowledge and skills. Especially when it comes to cross-pollinated seed crops (these include, for example, cabbage, beets, carrots, radishes, radish, corn, etc.). Nightshade also tend to cross-pollination. It makes no sense to take the seeds and hybrids.

Therefore, the seeds of a better buy, but it is desirable from the manufacturers, and tested, which guarantee the quality. Well, if the seeds are local, derived, where is your cottage - it means that the plant will be adapted exactly to your requirements.

lazy garden

Opponents of the garden there is the argument that what killed the beds, the best at this time to earn money and buy plenty of fruits and vegetables. But it is likely that your garden does not need at all to you on it "kills". Doctor of Agriculture Science Elizabeth PanteleyevProfessor, Chief Research Institute of Horticulture Research Fellow. Lisavenko told FORUMHOUSE its deep conviction that hard work in the country - usually due to the fact that people do not know the characteristics of plants, plant is not what grows well and bears fruit in their own terms, and that the neighbors and recommend familiar. Often vacationers just harm the plants of excessive care, such as daily watering - a watermelon, for example, should be watered very seldom. Elizabeth I. happens in his country house once a week and copes with a garden.

Mariska (User FORUMHOUSE):

If you are - a novice gardener, you do not have a greenhouse or a greenhouse, and your site is not located at latitude Rostov-na-Donu, you should not "bother" with peppers and eggplant, melons and watermelons - they just do not ripen.

If you know that you will visit the area is rare, it may make sense to abandon the planting of cabbage, which require frequent watering, besides, it is very cheap culture. But a permanent "owner's doglyada" does not require a bush beans, onions (Seva), spring garlic, pumpkin and zucchini. Cucumbers exhaust gas will also grow "a great success", if only to visit the country at the weekend.

Shary (User FORUMHOUSE):

I advise you to put such varieties of cucumber: Snowstorm the F1, the F1 Blizzard, the firm "Bioengineering" Farmer firm "Search". These varieties of cucumbers are small, crispy, without bitterness, fruiting - hurricane. Problems with these varieties will not. Good luck to you!

What to tomatoes, it is best to plant the most unpretentious kind, for example, in the season-2015 proved to be a good news from the Ural summer resident: Sprint 2, Sweet Miracle, Miracle tape.

Aniri (User FORUMHOUSE):

All I planted in the exhaust gas, like it. Most liked Sprint - no worries, no hassle, knit like this... giant. The only thing - fruit too small. Well, so what? for this and sat down.

And you can do all this way - simple and ingenious:

Andrey Vasilyev (consultant section "Fruit Garden"):

I have three beds 0.7h3 meters. They grow under the scheme 2 rows of onions, carrots row, etc. And on the perimeter stuck beets. Under this scheme a minimum of weeding it turns out, at least the area is occupied. Fertilizers during the season does not apply just digging in the autumn brought a couple of handfuls of superphosphate, dolomitku and peat. Well and autumn are planted as green manure, and then digging.

Another: garden designers recommend to take into account the characteristics of each specific area in crop cultivation. Flat as a table, a garden, a rare, but each has a slope lower, middle and upper. The cold air flows into the lower part and stays there for a long time, so there is, for example, it is undesirable to plant fruit trees and bushes so that they do not suffer the spring flowers from frost. Fortunately, the range of seeds and seedlings so that you can choose suitable for any site. proper Garden planning and gardensignificantly reduce trudozotraty gardener.

If site conditions allow, and have time to engage in tomatoes seriously, here gradeThat worked well in recent seasons.

Avensys (User FORUMHOUSE):

French planted hybrid "Afeni." Incredible! Powerful tall shrub, very fruitful, in the brush - 3-5 fruits, the former were up to 400 grams, the subsequent shrinking, but not critical. Pink, there is no rigid white core, very sweet, little seeds, not watery, almost one "meat". Everyone entertained, then ask only him, some calling, begin to elicit what grade. I bought the seeds in the store by the piece - 5 rubles / piece.

Join the discussion especially seed-2016 on FORUMHOUSE. Read the article about how to grow seedlings sverhkrepkuyu. Check out the video, which will help to fully prepared to meet the new summer season: buy the "right" seeds, tools and fertilizers.

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