Testing ground for the purchase of seedlings

Your soil with garden we usually steamed and frost for disinfection. And if you bought a soil substrate in the store, then test it for quality, you can use the test. I do it necessarily, because once bought a poor soil, had to throw out all the seedlings. From the quality of the soil seedlings grow well, it will depend on the harvest of your crops. Primers can buy now, before winter, and check their quality as in the garden work is over, and there was time for such things.

How to test

For testing, I use their seeds, namely cucumbers (they have many and different varieties), because they quickly ascend to wait long shoots.

If as a result of germination of cucumber are pale, poorly developed, it should be added to the soil nitrogen fertilizer. With a shortage of phosphorus leaves become purple hue. If there is insufficient potassium in the soil, then there is drying up at the edge of a leaf. In this case, you need to add phosphorus-potassium fertilizer.

It is advisable to learn and the acidity of the soil. If the peat in the package will be sour, your plants will not develop normally. Acidity can be checked using litmus. They can be bought in gardening shop.

There have been cases that detected in the soil of all living creatures, some insect larvae and eggs. Then in such a situation, the soil will have steamed in a water bath for 1-2 hours. Either promorozit for several days outdoors at low temperatures (more than minus 20 degrees). Then the ground will wear home for 3 days and again endure the frost. Thus, up to 3 times.

In order to destroy the eggs and larvae of insects, insecticides may be used (preparation "aktellik" solution), bacteria and fungal diseases to be treated "fundazol". But for those who apply the chemicals. Be extremely careful when applying Dosage and preparations.

If you have an infection, be sure to plant it in you will notice (rotting feet, different mold raids). In this case it is necessary to treat the soil (in the oven, a microwave, shed potassium permanganate), and you can settle the soil beneficial microorganisms (means "Baikal - EM 1").

Test not only purchase the ground, but also their own, for example, on the acidity.

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