Garden 2024, March

Growing Eggplants In The Open Field Near St. Petersburg

Growing Eggplants In The Open Field Near St. Petersburg

In one book on vegetable growing I read: "… a vegetable grower Nikityuk in 1938 near Moscow sowed Bulgarian eggplant. He germinated it with seeds, then dived into humus pots, and put them in greenhouses. On June 11, he planted seedlings in the field …"

Parsnip Growing - Pastinaca, Parsnip Pest And Disease Control, Parsnip Care And Harvesting - Sowing Parsnip - 2

Parsnip Growing - Pastinaca, Parsnip Pest And Disease Control, Parsnip Care And Harvesting - Sowing Parsnip - 2

Features of growing parsnips and the use of its harvestPodwinter sowing is done only with dry seeds, and they are sown in late autumn (November 5–20) in such a way that the seeds not only do not germinate, but also do not swell until the soil freezes. S

Recommended Varieties Of Different Types Of Cabbage

Recommended Varieties Of Different Types Of Cabbage

The most widespread in our country are cabbage: white and red cabbage, cauliflower and kohlrabi. Broccoli, Savoy, Peking and Brussels are less common. Sheet is most often used for decorative purposes

How To Prepare Seeds For Sowing

How To Prepare Seeds For Sowing

It has long been known that the size and quality of the harvest obtained in the fall largely depend on the initial stages of growing plants and, first of all, on seeds. Therefore, along with the correct choice of varieties and types of plants grown, it is necessary to pay maximum attention to the preparation of seeds for sowing. Consider the most important points that need to be considered when planning and carrying out spring sowing on the site

Choosing A Potato Variety And Preparing It For Planting

Choosing A Potato Variety And Preparing It For Planting

Mid-April is the time when vernalization of potato tubers begins. Optimal for planting is soil warming up to 8 … 10 ° С (according to the folk calendar, the beginning of work coincides with the blooming of leaves on a birch, and the end - with the formation of a poplar leaf

How To Use Peat Correctly

How To Use Peat Correctly

Many gardeners use peat as organic fertilizer. By purchasing it, they immediately spread fertilizer over the beds, under bushes and trees, hoping for high yields next year. However, they will be disappointed: peat will not instantly increase soil fertility. Now we will explain why

Growing Seedlings For A New Harvest

Growing Seedlings For A New Harvest

The seedling method is used when it is necessary to grow heat-loving plants that are afraid of frost with a long growing season, so that they give out the main harvest before the onset of severe autumn cold weather. For example, peppers, eggplants, tomatoes

How To Choose The Right Seeds

How To Choose The Right Seeds

For the stable production of high yields of vegetables, the quality of the seed, namely the seeds, is of decisive importance. The main indicators of seed quality are their varietal purity, germination, germination energy and viability. Seed germination depends on their maturity, period and storage conditions. A preliminary assessment of seeds can even be carried out visually: good quality seeds must be well executed, filled

Garlic: Useful Properties, Cultural Features

Garlic: Useful Properties, Cultural Features

Garlic is one of the most ancient plants that people began to use to their advantage. At first, it was collected in nature along with other edible wild plants, and then they began to specially grow it near dwellings in vegetable gardens. Due to its specific features, due to its strong phytoncides, garlic is currently used in the national economy as widely as no other plant

Growing A Daikon (part 1)

Growing A Daikon (part 1)

Last summer, at the agricultural exhibition-fair "Agrorus", on behalf of the House of Gardeners, I consulted visitors, telling them about the cultivation of a relatively new culture for our region - daikon. In Russia, this vegetable is often called "sweet Japanese radish". Visitors asked many questions, tasted the radish, and praised its taste together. Some of them complained that, they say, they also tried to grow, it does not work

Why Can't You Dig

Why Can't You Dig

Build up a fertile top layer. Plant siderates annually: white mustard, rye, oats, vetch, etc. It is very cheap and effective

Varieties And Hybrids Of White Cabbage

Varieties And Hybrids Of White Cabbage

The proposed table contains information about a number of varieties and hybrids, compiled on the basis of their descriptions by authors, wholesalers, on the basis of "comments" to the "Register", etc. You yourself have to choose the right varieties of cabbage, based on your plans

Using Sawdust In The Garden, Vegetable Garden And Greenhouse

Using Sawdust In The Garden, Vegetable Garden And Greenhouse

The vast majority of gardeners are convinced of the value of such fertilizer as manure, but few people know about the benefits of sawdust, although it is a very valuable organic matter, which, if used correctly, can give very good results

Growing Seedlings Of Celery And Parsley

Growing Seedlings Of Celery And Parsley

The very first vegetable crop that is sown at home for seedlings is celery root. It has the longest growing season - over 160 days. Therefore, in order to get large root crops, sowing begins in late January - early February

Eggplant: Variety Selection And Growing Seedlings

Eggplant: Variety Selection And Growing Seedlings

The seeds of your chosen variety and hybrid are disinfected within 20-30 minutes. in a solution of potassium permanganate, if they have not already been processed. It would be nice to then put them in a cloth bag in a solution of one of the complex fertilizers

Jerusalem Artichoke - Earthen Pear

Jerusalem Artichoke - Earthen Pear

In the 30s, academician N.I. Vavilov brought from America a tuberous sunflower, or as it is now called - Jerusalem artichoke ( earthen pear )

How To Deal With Weeds In The Garden And Vegetable Garden

How To Deal With Weeds In The Garden And Vegetable Garden

One of the main reasons leading to a sharp decrease in soil fertility, and hence a significant decrease in the productivity of cultivated vegetables and other crops, is weed field vegetation. The regulation of the living conditions of agricultural plants by humans should be aimed at preserving the cleanliness of the fields, for it is impossible to give a single example when high yields of fruits would be obtained on weedy fields

Growing Tomato Seedlings

Growing Tomato Seedlings

As with peppers, tomato yield is highly dependent on the quality and age of the seedlings. It is desirable to have her age at least 60 days. It is best to plant the seedlings in place in the bud stage. To get what you want, the seeds must be sown after March 10

Spring Garlic: Varieties, Cultivation, Features Of Agricultural Technology

Spring Garlic: Varieties, Cultivation, Features Of Agricultural Technology

Spring garlic makes even higher demands on soil fertility than winter garlic, and therefore the most desirable predecessors for it are those crops for which large doses of organic and mineral fertilizers were applied. It is very picky about the acidity of the soil and needs to be placed on light loamy and sandy loam soils with the reaction of the soil solution closer to neutral

How To Grow A Lemon Cucumber

How To Grow A Lemon Cucumber

The only globular cucumber that has taken root in Europe is the Crystal Apple. In Russia it was called "lemon cucumber" for its resemblance to lemon. But, of course, this cucumber has nothing to do with lemon

How To Develop A Virgin Land

How To Develop A Virgin Land

On the plot I inherited, there was practically no soil left; the ground was burned out and trampled down. There was a hard layer of podzol and a hard, water-tight clay. Before that, the land we got was not used, so we mastered the virgin lands

Eggplants Grow In The Leningrad Region

Eggplants Grow In The Leningrad Region

Now everyone knows that it is not difficult to grow eggplants in our region, but only in a greenhouse and only by seedlings. After all, eggplant is an even more thermophilic culture than tomato and even pepper

Growing A Daikon (part 2)

Growing A Daikon (part 2)

Now I am a staunch supporter of the daikon. He received a permanent residence permit in my garden. Perhaps I will increase the acreage for this crop. Hope that every year I will have more and more supporters and followers

Growing Eggplants Near St. Petersburg

Growing Eggplants Near St. Petersburg

Several eggplant bushes are enough for a small family. To do this, you do not need to build a special shelter, it is enough to have a place in a common greenhouse. You need to plant them in your own group, where they create their own microclimate

How To Choose A Good Variety Of Peppers And Grow Seedlings

How To Choose A Good Variety Of Peppers And Grow Seedlings

Characteristics of varieties and hybrids of pepper, a detailed review ( more than 100 varieties and hybrids ). Recommendations for planting seeds and growing pepper seedlings from a professional

Preparing The Soil For Potatoes

Preparing The Soil For Potatoes

Before planting potatoes, I only need to loosen the topsoil with a hand cultivator. Then I dig a hole, put the tuber there and add a spoonful of ash. I put 1-2 sprouted legumes next to the tuber

What Conditions Should Be Created For Plants For Harvest

What Conditions Should Be Created For Plants For Harvest

In order to master the various techniques of plant agrotechnology, you need to know the basics of their biology. It often happens that some special terms introduce confusion, and then it turns out that science with its designations turns out to be far and incomprehensible for an ordinary gardener

The Timing Of Growing Seedlings For Different Crops

The Timing Of Growing Seedlings For Different Crops

March sowing is done in vessels 5-6 cm deep, seeds are planted to a depth of 0.5-1 cm. Seedlings dive at the stage of developed cotyledon leaves. In April, it is better to immediately sow in cups - one good seed in each

How To Grow Early Radishes

How To Grow Early Radishes

The most attractive spring vegetable is undoubtedly the radish, which opens the season for our northern vegetables. The early maturity inherent in this culture, as well as varieties of various ripening periods and methods of growing, allow you to have fresh radishes throughout the year

Growing Cucumbers In A Greenhouse

Growing Cucumbers In A Greenhouse

In my cucumber greenhouse with a width of 2 m in the center, a passage 60 cm wide, the width of the beds on the sides is 70 cm. I plant modern greenhouse varieties, about 2.5-3 plants per square meter, and only in one row. It turns out two plants per linear meter

How To Get Three Crops Of Vegetables In A Season

How To Get Three Crops Of Vegetables In A Season

Our plots are small, and this area should be used to the maximum. But in order for the plants to have time to please us with products several times per season, it is necessary to grow seedlings, reducing the time the culture stays in the garden

Weed Species

Weed Species

Weeds are divided into annuals and biennials. However, this division is rather arbitrary. A number of annuals, under certain conditions of their life, can become perennials

Peking Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage And Japanese Cabbage Varieties

Peking Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage And Japanese Cabbage Varieties

Alas, East Asian cabbage is poorly distributed among our gardeners, but in vain: these delicious vegetables are quite unpretentious to grow, cold-resistant and can become a source of the earliest vitamin greens

Crop Greenhouse

Crop Greenhouse

In March, I cover the beds with old foil. When the soil has thawed 10 cm, I loosen it and sow white mustard. It perfectly tolerates frosts down to -7 ° С. For better growth of mustard, I cover the beds with foil

Potato Day In St. Petersburg

Potato Day In St. Petersburg

The 300th anniversary of the emergence of potatoes in Russia has passed unnoticed. But our country owes a lot to this now traditional culture. I think that the holiday dedicated to the "second bread" is appropriate in the city of Petra, which gave Russia this culture

What Should Be The Film For The Greenhouse - Greenhouse Film Care

What Should Be The Film For The Greenhouse - Greenhouse Film Care

The time for preparing film shelters for the season is approaching: what should be remembered for a gardener-summer residentMost people cannot imagine their life in the country without growing their own vegetables, berries, fruits and other useful crops there

Growing Carrots Through Seedlings

Growing Carrots Through Seedlings

The basis of my technology for growing potatoes and vegetables, including carrots, is: crop rotation, manual labor and a seedling method with planting plants at equal distances from each other in all directions, over the entire area of the garden

Growing Cucumbers In The Garden And In The Barrel

Growing Cucumbers In The Garden And In The Barrel

The neighbors who keep the cow do not have a greenhouse, and they take buckets of cucumbers from the garden, generously filled with manure. They do not use modern varieties, they have sowed local folk varieties from the Pskov region for many years in a row

How Many Potato Tubers Do You Need Per Hundred Square Meters

How Many Potato Tubers Do You Need Per Hundred Square Meters

Our regular author is the potato grower G.D. Sherman, on the basis of many years of experience, made a table that allows a novice gardener to accurately calculate the need for planting material for potatoes

Table Beet: Conditions For Growth And Development, Beet Varieties

Table Beet: Conditions For Growth And Development, Beet Varieties

The advantage of beets is its cold resistance, early maturity, undemandingness to a certain type of soil, good keeping quality during storage, the ability to grow well in a forcing culture. All this allows the use of beets throughout the year. However, in order to get good yields, it is necessary to create such agricultural machinery that would take into account its requirements for the main factors of growth and development