3 in 1, but no coffee: the mustard is useful for giving?
ANDzbavit your site from soil diseases, parasites and score their green mass of weeds can be a particular type of plant - sideráty (they are called green manures).
Hhe most common green manure - mustard one of three types: sareptskaya, black or white. The biggest plus mustard is that it is easy to tolerate low temperatures, and therefore, it is possible to sow in early May.
How to grow mustard?
BTo mustard managed to bring a portion of the benefit, it must grow at least 21 days (3 weeks). May and September - the best month for sowing mustard on a bed. Mustard will give you the best effect if you sow it in those beds, which in the future will be to plant tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, zucchini, squash, watermelons, melons and squash.
Helpful advice
mustard seeds should be planted in Harrow on the rake on the damp ground, lightly sprinkled them with earth (to a depth of 1.5-2 cm).
BErez three weeks after planting mustard its green mass can be cut with a sickle, scythe or mower - one that has in the arsenal.
WATEM grass to grind scattered on the future site of the beds and dig up the earth so that cut the mustard not go more than 4 centimeters.
Nuance
It is to a depth of 4 centimeters mustard is decomposed by bringing into the earth useful microelements.
PAfter you have dug beds, abundantly pour their water - it will speed up the decomposition of green mass of mustard and absorption of nutrients in the ground.
How useful mustard?
- 1- Mustard kills the larvae of pests (e.g., wireworms), Deferred by adults in the ground and the roots of plants.
- 2 - Mustard It does not allow weeds to grow in the garden, as a result of your seedlings will be deprived of competition for sunlight, water and minerals.
- 3 - Mustard It contains essential oils that prevent the formation of diseases such as blackleg, root rot, wilt, sheath blight and scab.
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