Method for lazy gardeners. How to grow the potatoes under the hay

Recently, there are new ways of growing potatoes, and very successful. Let's talk about a very not consuming power of the method of planting potatoes under the hay.

The essence of the method

The method consists in the fact that the formation of potato tubers is not the earth, and under a layer of hay or straw. The advantage is that you need not expend energy on digging, hilling and weeding, which is very important for the elderly. What is interesting, and the Colorado potato beetle is not visible. A number of tubers laid with a thickness of 30 cm with hay. After that, dry grass rot, start working the soil microorganisms, including Bacillus subtilis. Based on the last produced biologicals, e.g., fitosporin-M.

How to plant

Before planting the potatoes a little better "zazelenit" in the sun or disinfected using fitosporin-M solution. Then put on the ground and cover with hay. Dry grass gives extra warmth and attract earthworms. As you know, they not only loosen the ground, making it breathable, but restock the soil with humus.

No action is no longer necessary to do. In the autumn to raise hay and harvest. Watering is not provided, but in the dry summer, you can moisten the 2 times per season. The moisture is retained for a long time under the mulch. If hay layer will seem insufficient, you can throw on top of the cut grass.

Such mulching method used and on the other cultures. It tomatoes, eggplant, peppers.

As an experiment, one can try to plant a series of potatoes on this method of cultivation and evaluate the result.

So in the garden will be useful only to the mower and gloves.

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