We think, and do not plow: garden without the hassle of mind

Gardening for the lazy: organic farming on FORUMHOUSE

Typical summer visitor is always a lot of work in your garden. Spring he plowed or dug portion fertilizes the ground, holding the seed, which includes continuing potato planting. Then it all summer weeding, runs to the garden beds with heavy head, loose, spud, stepson... This approach to gardening on FORUMHOUSE firmly gone. In this article we will tell you what modern methods used members of our portal.

RICE

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Cosedi to testify dig, weed, watering and mulching, ploskorez and narrow beds believe nonsense and foolishness. Nobody do not want to offend, but to engage in vegetable garden, as did my parents, very hard.

Organic farming in the country

Many residents FORUMHOUSE - the most ardent supporters of the method of organic farming, in which growing fruit takes place in complete harmony with nature, the principle of "do not alter the nature and to help her. " Strict followers of this method does not use a shovel and hoe, do not remove the weeds, and a few days of work during the season - the rest of the harvest.

Basic principles of organic farming. Supporters of organic farming:

• They do not plow or dig land, the maximum that is allowed - loosen the soil to a depth of ploskorez Fokina 5-7 cm.
• never used herbicides. Good agricultural techniques - the key to healthy plants, and in the gardens of famous organists are no aphids, fungal diseases, the Colorado potato beetle. And if pests and diseases is still there, they are treated with microbial solutions, biologics, or folk remedies.
• do not use chemical fertilizers: You can only use compost, rotted manure, mulch, warm beds, etc...
• They are trying to attract to your site as much as possible to encourage earthworms and soil microorganisms work.
• actively and mulch the beds and paths. Agronomist Nikolai Kurdyumov, author of "smart garden", says absolutely not weed mulching save, but easier to "tear one exhausted struggle for rooting weeds" than all the time on duty with hoe. But the main purpose of the mulch - not even weed control and moisture conservation, soil fertility increase and improve its structure.

Adhering to these principles on its site, cottager has three objectives:

• increase soil fertility (every year it gets better and better);
• grow extremely useful and tasty fruit without chemicals;
• reduce the time spent working on the beds, to facilitate work.

Asemenych

Member FORUMHOUSE

But OZ in the economy requires exceptional consistency and high technological discipline! And without this, better not to start ...

Permaculture Sepp Holzer

Permaculture - in the direction of organic farming, which was founded by the famous Austrian Sepp Holzer naturalist together with two friends.

Permakulturologi set the task to create a garden, vegetable garden, which will take care of itself. To do this, they select plants that stimulate the growth of each other, do not compete for nutrients in the soil and repel each other pests.

Artecology

Member FORUMHOUSE

Master the art of lazy! Here is how I would describe the concept of permaculture applied to all of us.

Member of our portal with the nickname ShadeXXX using the principles of permaculture attempts to revive their land in the steppes of Kazakhstan. Now his clay site no life except the dry grass and stunted mosquito, but it is certain that in a few years there will be a garden and pond.

Lazy garden Bublik 

One of the most famous permakulturolgov post-Soviet space - Boris Bagel. He believes that any work with hoe and shovel harm vegetable garden: you just need not to interfere with nature, and even better to help her by planting a number of suitable plants.

It does not remove the weeds, work in the garden for a few days during the season, and hardly cares for him. Vegetable garden growing on the principle of "Edible Forest", by itself, without human intervention. In the photo - garden Bublik Boris.

This approach is quite radical, and among organic farming supporters FORUMHOUSE relation to bagel ambiguous, "he would rather she than a scientist." But this does not prevent the participants of our portal successfully use many tricks permakulturologa. Especially horticultural tools of his invention (or their explanation).

Tool for planting potatoes, or as he calls himself permakulturist, "horseradish potato" - a thick stalk, in which hammer a nail to control the depth of the wells. Bagel Carbon black is not the whole potatoes, and the eyes of the large tubers.

In the photo below - "horseradish potato" working member of our portal with the nickname Deppert.

Deppert

Cazhal carved eyes, wells stumbles tightly, promptly inserted into the holes germinated eyes and trampled. Everything. Planting 4 varieties of potatoes took about an hour of slow with smoke breaks.

Bagel does not sow the seeds in the garden in rows, he considers it meaningless. He has about ten portable drills - polutoralitrovyh plastic bottles with holes in the bottom. Each drill hole defined sizes - very small, carrot, larger, beet, etc... Gardener randomly scatters the seed drills on the garden beds, embeds their land rake or with plane - everything.

Cottager will be above the beds, bent by the letter "d", says Bagel. Large seeds he sows through a long tube, making the first peg holes (see photo this tube - the extreme right).

Another know-how: self-sown beds. Onions and garlic in August is not completely removed, the seeds are scattered, and in the spring summer resident, not lift a finger, has sown a bed!

Book donut"Your garden. An unusual approach to the usual things " It became the primer organic farming for our participants with the nickname Sly Fox. Through this book new posts ceased to perceive the cottage as a place of hard labor and shared useful information with all forum users.

Sly Fox

My main task in the "garden" period was by any means to escape from the holiday dues. I read, and I was "swallowed", so much so that by the day-month-year, I more and more difficult to pull out of the garden, garden, front garden.

Narrow beds for Mittlayderu

Jacob Mittlayder - Doctor of Agricultural Sciences. The task of his system: to obtain from the garden small area outstanding yields easily. The system stands on two pillars:

• The narrow ridges and wide passages therebetween. We talked at length about this technology, which provides optimal lighting plants. Beds and passages never reversed.

Michurinets

Member FORUMHOUSE

Welcome to this method, wide aisles: always closely climbs one bed to another, and when growing, formed the jungle.

• Regular feeding of plants with chemical fertilizers. Mittlayder makes balanced feeding for special recipes, and they contain a considerable amount of mineral fertilizers. Soil can even be replaced by a neutral substrate, to which you add nutrients. Important to plants deficient prepared magnesium and molybdenum, which convert nitrates into proteins and amino acids, to the desired plant growth and maturation.

But this system was developed by a doctor for the most worthless land: barren, polluted "dead" construction works, rock and even artificial soil. The amount of fertilizer that offers Mitlayder inevitably leads to degradation and soil salinity.

Therefore, to this part of our forum users are skeptical, and adapt Mittlaydera under their organic principles.

Nadenka

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Used this method for several years, it is now left only the narrow bed. A lot of fertilizer, greatly impoverish the soil. I have ceased to be driven not only weeds but also worms!

summing up

Gardeners of our portal is rarely followed by any single system, rather they creatively rethinking each and take something useful for myself. A smart approach to garden beds completely changes the country life: drip irrigation, mulching, narrow beds, planting potatoes under the hay, etc... lead to the fact that the work in the garden is no longer a difficult. In it all the more creativity, creativity and the joy of cooperation with nature.

On FORUMHOUSE you can learn about double digging method and than to dig to get tired. read article about weed control and home production of vermicompost. And, more to explore Permaculture. Watch our video that will help you decide on the kind of soil on your site.

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