The North-West region of Russia is included in the area of risky farming. Capricious, often cold weather forces gardeners to use hotbeds and greenhouses to accelerate the cultivation of seedlings and the harvest of heat-loving plants.Greenhouses covered with honeycomb POLYCARBONATE are becoming more and more popular every year, and there is an explanation for this. Pol
Lagenaria ( Lagenaria siceraria ) - one of the oldest vegetable plants, domesticated, according to some sources, at least 15 thousand years ago. Until now, scientists have not precisely established the areas of origin of these famous pumpkins: Asia, America, New Zealand and Africa - equally may be the first places of their growth
Here are the characteristics of potato varieties that are promising for our region: Radonezh, Vdohnovenie, Ocharovanie, Naiad, Liga, Santa, Fresco, Latona, Velox, Alova, Redstar, Redscarlet, Lisetta, Condor
What do budding gardeners usually do? Either they dig up virgin soil by hand, or hire a tractor. Both are unreasonable. The first will require superhuman strength and will take more than one season, and the second is most often pointless at all
Although white cabbage is a familiar and long-grown crop, not everyone succeeds in it, maybe just because of a careless attitude to the preferences of this culture, but she has them
For thousands of years, aromatic herbs and spices have been used in cooking. In the last few centuries, they have become the subject of active trade and were probably among the most expensive goods. To get spices, new continents were discovered and foreign countries were conquered
We place potatoes in places where strawberries used to be. We mow its leaves, but we do not dig up the planting. We put a thick layer of hay on top, then a layer of fertile soil from zucchini, pumpkins, cucumbers, watermelons and melons
When growing potatoes on sod, the most promising is planting tubers on growing hills, which allows you to get a few tubers already in the first year and at the same time form a certain amount of fertile soil
We have been getting a stable harvest of these melons for the fifth year already. But my husband has long wanted to use watermelons and melons to show their beauty. Last season, he made his dream come true
If you want to solve the greenhouse issue once and for all - buy a greenhouse with a polycarbonate cover. After all, this honeycomb plastic perfectly transmits light, and the longitudinal stiffeners give the panels (2.1 m wide and 6 m long) the necessary strength
It is well known that it is easiest to lose a crop when the fruit is set. How to avoid losses even in adverse weather conditions? Only professionals can help. Today in Russia a full range of professional solutions in this area is offered by the Orton company
The experiment continuesOn the pages of the magazine www.floraprice.ru you can often see the publications of the head of the Organic Farming Club Sergey Rumyantsev, in which he urges gardeners to switch to the natural farming system under the motto "Less work, higher yield"
I will not dwell on the botanical features of garlic, you can read about this in the special literature. I will only note that there are arrow-shaped forms of garlic, in which the cloves are arranged radially in one row. He will be discussed further
Oddly enough, but the usual beetroot is a direct relative of the quinoa that floods the gardens. And they used it as early as 2000 BC. For example, the Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians knew beets as a vegetable and medicinal plant. Cultural cultivation of beets, according to scientists, began a little later, about 1000 years BC
What kind of vegetable is this - savoy cabbage? I look at her and am surprised: the head of cabbage looks like the head of an ordinary white lady, and the leaves are somehow chewed. It is not clear why she was born and who needs her?
I grow absolutely all beets through seedlings ( of course, once I grew them in a generally accepted non-seedling way, but I have long been convinced of its complete inefficiency in our conditions ). Seedlings, naturally, all cold weather, i.e. spends in a greenhouse until early June. The greenhouse, of course, must be prepared in advance, i.e. filled with biofuel, which should be warmed up by the time of sowing the seeds
Seedling age is desirable at 40-45 days. The term for planting in open ground in the North-West is from April 25 to May 5. The planting pattern is 70x25-30 cm. For summer planting, the age of the seedlings is desirable at 30-35 days. Landing date 15-20 June
Summer residents often lack tomato seedlings. For one reason or another, the grown seedlings are not enough for all the beds and greenhouses. You can get out of this situation in a simple way, which I used last year. This is the rooting of the stepsons
For several years I have tried to grow lemon balm on the windowsill; it should be noted that it grew well all year round. I tried to plant it in the open field, alas, the lemon balm disappeared. The gardeners I knew, to whom I told about this, claimed that, apparently, I weeded it out like a weed. Then I found out that, it turns out, this culture does not really like winters
Biohumus "EKOMIR" is a concentrated environmentally friendly organic fertilizer containing the whole range of nutrients and microelements necessary for plants. This is an absolutely natural, natural product without chemical additives
Stolons appear only on the white part of the stem, which is hidden from light. How to extend the length of the stem below the soil surface without burying the tubers? The answer is simple - you need to germinate the tubers to a sprout length of 2-3 cm, and plant them down by sprouts
Ornamental garden - decoration of your siteUnfortunately, vegetables and flowers on our sites, as a rule, are diametrically opposed concepts. However, many flowers can be used for cooking and many vegetables for decorative purposes. For example, tomatoes and potatoes imported from America were first planted in flower beds, and not in garden beds
Currently, plant growth regulators are widely used in plant growing practice. They are used to accelerate plant growth or its inhibition, rooting cuttings, when transplanting trees, to increase crop yields, to remove seeds from dormancy, to obtain seedless fruits … I would like to dwell not on advertising this or that drug in this series, but on the mechanism of action this class of biological compounds
It is impossible to grow varieties of sweet onions from the set, there cannot be such a variety of sets. After all, all varieties of salad ( sweet ) onions are stored for 3-4 months. You can only get real salad onions from seeds
Tomato ugliness is not common. As a rule, gardeners are faced only with accrete fruits - mutant fruits, the appearance of which is in no way related to the peculiarities of agricultural technology
Often, when harvesting a crop, gardeners find that the vegetables turn out to be somehow ugly. This form does not always have a negative effect on the taste - it all depends on the reasons that caused the ugliness
To the beginning BeansShe has beautiful flowers - white, red, purple, and fruits - white, green, yellow, purple, and leaves. There are both curly and bush forms. Recommended varieties: Golden Nectar, Butter King, Purple Queen, Foie Gras, Champion, Chef
Light, nutritious soils are best for carrots. This was noticed in the old days: “She loves the sandy land, on which she will be born smoother and tastier, and will not grow so much in the tops; on the black earth, carrots let out more grass than their root "
I would like to share my gardening and scientific experience in growing green manure - siderates. The term "sideration" was first proposed in the 19th century by the French scientist J. Ville. A crop plowed into the soil is called siderat
Often in July, gardeners and gardeners complain about the fall of the pepper ovaries. Let's try to figure out what is the reason for such an unpleasant phenomenon, because without eliminating it, you can remain without a crop
Previously, we believed that the color of a tomato should be red, but in fact it should be pink, since it is more saturated with useful substances. Yellow tomatoes are in second place after pink ones. Tomatoes with large orange fruits are much smaller
I always buy black onion seeds, sow them and grow my own sets. I read many times that you can get turnip onions from seeds in one season. Finally I decided to try this method myself
The path of the white turnip - through Japan to our bedsWe have forgotten our primordially Russian vegetable culture - turnip. Only the expression "Simpler than a steamed turnip" remained from her. Do not plant it in gardens. And they don't eat
Root celery forms a root vegetable weighing up to 2 kilograms. Its weight depends on the variety and care. He uses the leaves and the juicy root crop itself
Hyssop officinalis is a herbaceous perennial plant of the lamotaceous family. It is a medicinal, spicy and ornamental plant with a strong balsamic scent. It is also called hisop, kusop, yusefka, blue St. John's wort
The next experiment I conducted on tomatoes. She grew 65 varieties last season. I sowed them on seedlings in two stages in March. I dive seedlings in the phase of cotyledons and the first leaf that is slightly bent. I prepare the earth myself
A summer resident who has even a small piece of land is sure to try to plant at least a small bed of garlic. Agree, it's so nice: dig up the garlic and serve it to the table with young potatoes and sour cream - what could be tastier? What do you say if this dug head is the size of a good man's fist ?
In Russia, turnips have been cultivated since time immemorial. And now it is listed with us almost in the very last place - it has almost completely ceased to be grown. And, actually, in vain. Turnip is quite tasty both fresh and baked or stewed. Turnip roots are also fried and stuffed. In addition, one cannot, of course, discount its extraordinary usefulness for the body
Some letters that I received from readers, gardeners, contained the statement that mulching the beds with ready-made compost is much more effective than unripe organic matter. One of the authors even argued that mulching with unripe organic matter is harmful. Let's consider: is this so
The simplest shelters for planted seedlingsThere are many different designs of the simplest tunnel-type shelters. In my practice, I use shelters, which cannot be simpler.Since autumn, after harvesting the cultivated crop, I sow rye