LUXURY FLOWING DEPENDS ON SOIL HEALTH
Did you know, expensive flower growers, that millions of microorganisms live in one gram of chernozem? They secrete special enzymes to process organic residues and produce humus acids - the main food for plants.. Digging up soil and applying various chemicals, we kill useful "workers". And in a depleted land, the plant's immunity decreases, they are affected by diseases and pests. In this situation, you can forget about the lush flowering of ornamental crops.. Specialists, lecturers at the exhibition "Renew Your Garden-2019", held in Moscow at VDNKh, encouraged listeners to switch to organic farming.
Safe feeding
Elvira Yurievna NOZDRINA from Nizhny Novgorod, representative of the company "Notable Farmer", came with an important purpose: introduce as many people as possible to natural fertilizers. And for good reason: queues lined up near her pavilion.
Elvira Yurievna, what wonderful fertilizers you brought to the exhibition?
- The choice is large. This is the well-known bone meal., and blood, as well as mustard cake, horny hoofed meal… Each fertilizer has its own function, but they are united by one useful property - environmental friendliness. Besides, products are affordable and economical in consumption.
Natural fertilizers
What is it needed for, eg, mustard cake?
- It is a fertilizer with phytosanitary properties. All nutrients, in it, quickly absorbed by plants. In terms of composition, mustard cake can be compared to manure.. Only it does not contain weed seeds, mycelium, spores of pathogens and parasite eggs. Oilcake is an excellent prevention of bacterial diseases, root rot. He scares away the wireworm, nematode, long-legged, slugs, rodents.
Tell, how to make an infusion of oil cake?
- You don't need to cook anything. When planting seedlings, simply add a teaspoon of powder to the hole. Mustard cake is loved by hydrangea collectors, as it protects plants from late blight. And if you need to scare away slugs from hosts or dicenter, powder the primer under the leaves.
And for which crops is horn-hoofed meal intended?
- Basically, it suits everyone. This nitrogen-potash fertilizer is applied at any time of the year.. Most often they are fed roses.. It's important to remember here: dry matter is added at planting or embedded in the soil (20-30 g for plant). If the ground under the bush cannot be loosened, the meal is scattered over the surface and mulched with garden soil. Consider, that you are dealing with a long-acting drug. The period of its decomposition in the soil - 6-12 months. That is, one meal per year is enough.
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At the beginning of the conversation, you said, that they brought bone meal. It is mainly used for soil deoxidation.?
- This is just one of the properties. And the main task of bone meal is to provide plants with phosphorus and calcium. When planting bulbs in autumn (daffodils, tulips, lilies, etc.) 1-2 ч.л.. mix flour with soil, fill it in a groove or hole and plant flowers. Phosphorus stimulates root formation in bulbs, which means, they will happily take root and winter. Returning to the issue of soil deoxidation, conclude, that bone powder is not suitable for all cultures.
Rhododendrons,feed heathers and other acidic soil lovers with blood meal. But only in the spring, because it quickly releases nitrogen.
