Preservation of the greenhouse: how to prepare a greenhouse for the winter

To ensure the safety of the greenhouse construction in the winter, it is necessary to properly prepare for the cold. Experienced gardeners share tips, step by step how to handle a greenhouse in the fall

Every cottager seeking first harvest as early as possible. To do this on a plot of settling the greenhouse. After collecting the last harvest of the season, many owners of suburban areas think about how to properly prepare the room for the winter. On the validity of this process depends on the safety of the design and the next harvest.

Experienced gardeners and gardeners share tips, step by step how to prepare a greenhouse in the autumn to winter cold.

Content

• Cleaning in a greenhouse in the fall
• frame processing
• Film and glass
• soil decontamination
• chemical agents
• Global processing
• strengthening design

Cleaning in a greenhouse in the fall

Preparing for winter in the greenhouse starts with general cleaning. During the season, the room where they grow vegetables, fruits, herbs, and other plants, is polluted. On the basis of accumulated remains of leaves, plant parts. The ground develop microorganisms can remain on the wintering insects. Because of this, air can be present in pathogens, fungus spores and other infections.

On the carcass materials, walls and soil accumulate different greenhouse pollution. If time does not hold a high-quality cleaning, future yields may be affected by pathogenic flora. Proper cleaning of all surfaces and interior space will also extend the life of the greenhouse.

Preparing greenhouses begins with the removal of all the excess out of the room. This stage can not be ignored, as the follow-up procedures will be less effective. you need to move all items from the room. You can not store the equipment, fertilizers, seedlings, and so on. It must remain bare soil without leaves, dead wood, and other traces of vegetation.

Also have to make backups for plants, pegs, which must be cleaned and folded for storage outside the greenhouse. Removed all the trash, weeds, tops. They are burned in special furnaces.

The upper layer was removed greenhouse soil. There may leave traces of infections, insects. It can be poured into a specially reserved place in the garden, not much throwing the ground. It dug and leave for the winter. Soil peremerznet, disinfect and become suitable for further cultivation.

If greenhouse grow perennial crops, they do not need to uproot. Clean only diseased plants. On the other bushes necessarily cut off old leaves, diseased shoots.

frame processing

Pathogenic microorganisms and pests are not only in the soil. Walls and frame can contain fungal spores, insect eggs. Therefore, such surfaces must be cleaned and disinfected quality. This procedure is carried out immediately after a major cleaning. Only after treatment with the walls and the frame can start cultivation of the land.

If the greenhouse is a structure of support elements with a colored film, the metal surfaces are washed with water and soda, and then wiped with Bordeaux mixture. If there is galvanized or unpainted surfaces, they are cleaned very hot water. Then, the sponge is soaked in a vinegar (9%) and treated metal surface of the structure.

For the carcass of suitable PVC tubes with white water, and the wooden support can be washed with a solution of bleach. When a natural material is dry, it is further impregnated with copper sulphate (7.5%), bleach slaked lime.

Film and glass

The film is recommended to remove the winter. It can not withstand the weight of snow that winter will fall on her tight cap. The material must be washed in hot water with dissolved soap. The film is then rinsed, wiped with copper sulfate solution (5%) and hang to dry in the sun.

When the film surface water will not remain, the material rolled up in rolls. They were packed into sealed bags and kept in the house.

If the greenhouse has a window which can not be dismantled, they are washed inside and outside the window squeegee. In the corners, in places stubborn dirt will have to work hard sponge. The gaps between the frames scrub wedge wrapped in cotton cloth. During the processing of the glasses used soap solution. You can use the dish detergent diluted in water.

Then, the glass surface is rinsed with clean water and optionally treated with bleach solution (4%).

Polycarbonate unacceptable purified alkaline compounds, chlorine-based agents. Also it is impossible to wash the surface of a metal sponge, a stiff brush. Even flap of burlap is not suitable for this purpose. You also can not use laundry detergent, glass cleaner and dishwashing. Polycarbonate was purified by pressurized water, and then wiped with a strong solution of potassium permanganate concentration. To scrub stubborn dirt, use a flannel cloth soaked in suds.

soil decontamination

The lower layers of soil greenhouse also in need of further treatment. There may leave traces of infections, rhizomes of weeds. To perform the decontamination, the following methods are used:

• Bayonet shovel is necessary to dig the ground, and then loosen it qualitatively. It will be frozen soil deep enough so that it no pests remain. In the process of digging the soil removed the roots of plants, insect larvae. If you have enough time, it can be reseeded substrate. This will provide a high quality soil.
• Another way to get rid of germs and parasites is the replacement of the earth in a greenhouse. Bought a special substrate, which is composed of nutrients. You need to fill up a healthy layer of soil about 25 cm. Her loosened and left until spring.
• Qualitatively clean soil from unwanted microorganisms, insects and weeds can be by means of heat treatment. To do this, the ground is heated by spraying it with boiling water. Then, the surface is covered with a film. But after that, the substrate becomes "dead." That in this land were able to develop vegetable crops, it is necessary to make a lot of fertilizer. Soil treated with specific drugs, such as Azotofitom, Biodestructors or similar compositions.

Experienced gardeners are advised not peremorazhivat soil to disinfect it. Because of this, planted seeds and seedlings in the greenhouse will have later. Better quality decontaminate the soil in the fall and winter to cover its layer of snow. Since the land can not be frozen much. In the spring it warms up more quickly, allowing the garden to open the season before.

chemical agents

Decontaminated soil in the greenhouse can be by a series of chemical solutions. Experienced gardeners claim that the following tools are the most effective:

• copper-based formulations. This method should be selected if in the past the gardening season in the greenhouse were outbreaks of late blight or other similar infections. This procedure can be carried out not more than once every 5 years. Preparing a solution of copper sulphate (0.1%). Per square meter will require about 9 liters of funds.
• Chlorinated compounds. Almost against all kinds of pathogenic fitoflory help with bleach solutions. On the ground crumbles dry lime. Per square meter of its need 1 cup. Lime embedded in the soil with a rake.
• With potassium permanganate solution. To perform high-quality disinfection, prepare a saturated solution. It should have a bright purple hue. Means abundantly watered soil.

Global processing

If the greenhouse is large, it is possible to carry out a gas disinfection. To do this, use sulfur-containing fungicides. They have a kind of smoke bombs, which release toxic fumes. Sulfur dioxide greenhouse fills the room, making their way even into the most inaccessible places.

Gas connected with drops of moisture accumulated in the ground, on the construction elements. It contributes to the total disinfection of all surfaces. This tool will help to get rid of even resistant to other means of spider mites. All the pathogenic microflora is destroyed, like the larger parasites. The procedure is performed as follows:

• Processing facilities is carried out no later than mid-October. The temperature should not drop below 10 ° C.
• Carried out thorough cleaning and soil digging.
• The room is sealed. All the cracks need to caulk, seal the holes, if any. Rubber seals should be replaced at the window and the door.
• Metal frame members which are not covered with paint, grease treated. If the enamel surface is scratched or chipped, stained them further.
• The amount of drug is calculated in accordance with quadrature greenhouse.
• The person conducting the treatment, disguised in protective clothing.
• Primer, structural elements inside the greenhouse is sprayed from an atomizer.
• In the heat resistant base give vertically checker, the wick is ignited.
• The person must leave the greenhouse as soon as the process starts smoldering wick. The door closes tightly.
• After 3 days the greenhouse door open, throw open all the vents and windows wide open. Airing last long. sulfur smell should disappear completely.

strengthening design

To the greenhouse is not collapsed under the weight of snow, it should be further strengthened in the winter. Even if your local winters with little snow, you still need to perform such a procedure. Most designs can not withstand the load of 350 g / m². If enough snow falls, the frame will sag and greenhouse may collapse completely.

To strengthen the frame using special tubular struts, strut-like mop. They are made of wood or special metal alloys. The wood from which they are made, must be free from defects, chips. It is desirable that the backups were processed antiseptic compositions. It is possible to apply the tubular supports, but they should have a wall thickness of at least 2 mm.

Additional T-shaped elements are arranged with a pitch of approximately 130-150 cm from each other. Under each pillar should be a small metal plate or wide and thick board. If the base is not found, the end of the backup under the weight of snow will sink into the soil and greenhouse prosyadet. The upper part of the support is fed under a central beam. They are fixed to the bar clamps.

The final stage will be the dismantling of the doors, air vents. This will prolong their life, and the greenhouse is well ventilated. It is better to remove and put on a removable storage of all design elements. If the doors and windows can not be dismantled, they are opening wide. In this position, they must be securely fixed to a strong gust of wind did not break the glass.

Output

Timely and correct training will help to grow in a greenhouse enviable garden crops, horticultural crops. The design is durable, and the plants are not afraid of diseases and pests.

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