Coniferous litter. How to store and use in the garden?
Autumn - the best time for gathering pine litter, which is a useful ingredient for our garden plot (for the garden, too). Let's discuss in this article how to use pine litter with the maximum benefit, and what does it do.
Under which crops can be used?
This is the best option for strawberry. I have tried different ways of mulch, and stopped on this variant.
But there is one caveat - it should be collected in the autumn, when it is still fresh under the pine trees, with no signs of rot and damping-off. It should be dense and have a pleasant smell. At this time, the fallen needles allocates a lot of volatile production, which prevents putrefaction process. Berries in coniferous litter are clean, they do not eat slugs, no botrytis.
Needles used and under perennials. Thick layer of mulch. It protects against frost and the plants under it breathe. You can pour a raspberry bushes that will protect the roots from freezing in the winter, and rodents will not be disturbed. Suitable for conifers and Ericaceae crops as mulch.
How to collect and store
In order to collect the needles need to choose a sunny day, no rain. Take a small rake and bag from under the sugar or burlap (you can take a simple and packages), to collect the dry pine needles. These needles filled containers are best kept in the attic until the next season.
Litter - a storehouse of nutrients
Furthermore coniferous litter can dial the layer of soil, which is under foliage, and pine needles. This mulch, which is a storehouse of nutrients, it can be said, the forest humus.
This fertilizer can fertilize plants that like acidic soil. Suitable for all heathers, conifers, hydrangeas. For disinfection of the litter better be frozen in the cold, and then bring it into the room, and then in the spring to use for crops.
Do not dig deep pits under the trees need to fill all the recesses of fallen needles!
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