How to increase the yield and fertility of the soil. How to increase the yield of potatoes - practical tips

Fertilizers with proper use can effectively increase the yield of garden crops. In this case, the main thing is not to overfeed or underfed the plant with them. These are the rules recommended to follow experienced gardeners to increase the yield of vegetables, herbs, berries and fruits. In all the rules, fertilizer appears as the main "actor".

Rule 1

  When choosing fertilizers you need to be a rationalizer. Do not stock up only their organic species or only mineral. Fertilizers must be used comprehensively to get the maximum yield efficiency from the plants or the ornamental species that the plant is capable of.

Rule 2

  The measure should also be present even in the application of organic fertilizers, even based on mineral mixtures. For example, those gardeners who annually plant the land or sprinkle it with pounds of azofosca every summer season are not right at the root.

Manure “works” as an organic fertilizer for three years after its distribution on the land plot. And not every plant needs it. For good they need to maneuver only certain places in the area under the plant that needs manure.

  In turn, the singular pillars should not be applied to the soil annually. It is necessary to dilute these fertilizers and adjust them with compost, other types of fertilizers and fertilizers, for example, herbal infusions prepared by yourself.

Rule 3

  Please note that fertilizers are either macronutrients or microelements, or both. Preferably the last types of fertilizers that contain complexes of valuable substances. Such fertilizers are offered for sale as a liquid, also in granules, powder. Among such complex fertilizers are the most effective under the name:

Gumistar
   Darina
   Giant
   Agricola
   Orton and many more.

Rule 4

To correct correctly what kind of fertilizer your soil lacks, in order to get a large and high-quality crop, it is necessary from time to time, at least once every three years (especially if you are not satisfied with the yield) to take soil samples on your piece of land to the laboratory for acidity research soil, humus content in it, other elements. Having such information on hand, you will not blindly add various fertilizers (sometimes not the cheapest) to the soil and do not harm it, let alone get a good harvest.

Rule 5

  If the laboratory analysis of the soil from the site showed a deficit of any particular element, it is impossible to do without buying fertilizer with this single substance. Such fertilizers include ammonium nitrate, boric acid and other types of dressings.

Rule 6

  It is necessary to apply fertilizers that are chosen correctly to the site not at once, but fractionally, several times during the entire summer season. Each vegetable or other crop in the garden and in the garden requires its own number of feedings and their number. "By eye" in this case, nothing can be done. This is one of the main rules of an experienced and successful gardener.

Rule 7

  If in the summer period the weather is sunny and warm, then fertilizing fertilizer should be done once every week. If it rains, overcast, cool, there is no heat, then you need to fertilize the soil and plants once every two weeks. With such a “compact” dosage of fertilizers, with an eye on weather conditions, the plants will not accumulate harmful nitrates in themselves.

Rule 8

  Do not use the same fertilizer to apply the entire summer season. Take note of the next moment. If the fertilizer (in its composition) nitrogen is more than five percent, then use this fertilizer, starting in the spring and mid-summer.

After mid-summer, during the preparation of plants for the winter, the number of nitrogen fertilizing needs to be drastically reduced, if you do not remove nitrogen from them at all. Since it becomes harmful to plants in such a period of the year.

After July 15, it is advisable to start using either other types of fertilizers that do not contain nitrogen, or that it should be no more than five percent of the composition. All this system is suitable for perennial flower beds, ornamental and berry bushes, fruit trees. Vegetables are grown during one season, because they are fed on a different system, which does not require a reduction in nitrogen in the diet, from mid-summer until autumn.

Rule 9

When mixing fertilizers, be sure to read the instructions for them. Not all types of fertilizer can be mixed together. Also, it should not be long to store the solution from a mixture of different types of fertilizers, as it not only loses its qualities, but also accumulates harmful substances that poison the plants later.

For each vegetable and fruit I have my own methods of increasing yields. But there are those who raise the harvest in the summer cottage as a whole.

A good month to improve the fertility of summer cottages is July. Planting and weeding behind, harvesting ahead. It's time to do an increase in yields and development for the future.

Tilled crops, such as potatoes, at this time it is better not to water with ordinary tap water, but with sparkling water (of course, not with mineral water from the store). According to researchers, this method of irrigation increases the yield by eight percent. Foliar application to the soil of iodine gives an even greater effect for any crops.

Harvest in the country can be increased

Ripening tomatoes can be accelerated by putting a regular plastic bag on a branch with ripe and unripe fruits. In this case, the volatile substances stimulating the ripening of tomatoes will not escape into the atmosphere, but will help to ripen unripe tomatoes. The result will be obvious in a couple of days.

With the same purpose, at a height of three centimeters from the soil, the stalks of tomatoes can be twisted with wire, squeezing the skin. In addition to accelerating ripening, it will increase the sugar content of fruits.

To increase the yield of carrots it is cut (shorten the leaves). From regular haircut, the roots get fat and gain weight.

Top dressing

Fertilizing vegetables must be fertilized correctly, and even you will not get the effect. The rules are as follows.

Secrets of loosening and weeding

California worm

We all know about the benefits of earthworms for the soil. Their American counterpart Californian worm is specially bred by US geneticists to help farmers. In a day this worm produces humus twice its weight!

If you buy about fifty Californian worm individuals and send them to graze at your dacha, by the end of the season thousands of red worms will live on the site. While the lifespan of your new friend is fifteen years. And every year the underground population of the garden will increase.

California worm increases soil fertility

Coconut substrate

One more useful substance came to our gardeners from tropical islands. These are crushed coconut shell fibers that can be bought at the store. From one tablet of the substrate, after soaking it, three liters of substrate are obtained, suitable for entering into the soil, from a briquette - ten liters.

Any crops grow well on the substrate, as it contains many useful substances, retains water well in the soil and perfectly passes oxygen. In addition, it protects plants from pests and insects. The use of the substrate doubles the time for the growth of plants from seeds. And the fruits are environmentally friendly, since the need for fertilizers decreases significantly.

How to grow a good crop without chemicals?

Application of humus replaces chemical fertilizers

Chemistry magic, undoubtedly, can dramatically increase yields. But millions of people still prefer to do without it whenever possible, if there are natural methods to increase fertility.

It is very important for a gardener to learn the basics of crop rotation. That is, to find out for yourself which crops after which they should be grown on their beds, so that soil fertility does not decrease year by year, but, on the contrary, increase steadily, crops growing on it become more powerful and viable.

Annual fertilization of organic fertilizers improves in the soil - liquid dressings, humus, as well as ash and sand. There are special plants - green manure, which are planted next to the cultivated specifically to improve the soil. The same goals are achieved by soil mulching.

If an invasion of pests occurs, you need to think seven times before using chemicals to destroy them. It should always be remembered that a person, like microbes and insects, also consists of cells. Chemicals preserved in the soil will be absorbed by garden and horticultural crops.

They will eventually end up on your dining table. It is possible that they will poison your body. It is better to miss part of the crop. In addition, there are many folk remedies that are not worse than chemicals. But the fruits are environmentally friendly.

If when planting plants to make compost and humus in the wells, the crop automatically increases one and a half to two times. Seed germination increases.

All open areas of soil need to sleep with mulch. In the summer we do this in the garden, and in the fall - in the garden after harvesting. As mulch used straw, mowed grass, hay, leaves, food waste, humus, dead weeds, compost, shredded cardboard and paper.

We sit sideraty

Siderats increase yields and fight weeds

These are plants that I plant specifically so that when they grow, they will be plowed into the soil as an organic fertilizer. They are rich in substances useful for garden and garden crops. Siderates also create a system of tubules in the soil, accumulate nitrogen in it, serve as food for beneficial worms and microorganisms, create a shadow to protect crops from hot rays, protect the soil from blowing and erosion.

Siderats include, first of all, all legumes: beans, vetch, peas, lupine, lentils; salvage, soybean, clover, kidney bean, phacelia, bream, as well as buckwheat and rye. Three consecutive crops of legumes at the site are equal to the complete coverage of it with a layer of manure. All these plants tolerate cold, and their roots intensively loosen the soil.

The skin of fruits and vegetables is also an excellent organic fertilizer. It contains a large percentage of vitamins and nutrients. Therefore, their place is not in the garbage heap, but in the garden.

The amount of harvest obtained from your favorite fruit trees, depends not so much on the condition of the soil on which they germinate (although, of course, it is not necessary to skip mandatory fertilizing), but rather on the environment. The main component of increasing fruiting should be the attraction of insect pollinators to trees. To do this, plant in the garden between them honey and nectariferous plants, such as dill, cumin, borage, and during flowering, spray the plants with sugar solution. Pay attention to the position of the branches on ...

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Each grower wants to get an earlier harvest. This is why expert advice will be useful. If there is a desire to try out the sowing of seeds in autumn and winter, then we follow the following recommendations. Not germinated seeds of carrots, dill, parsnip, onions, lettuce, cabbage, garlic and beets use free sites. The soil is engaged in the second half of summer. After all the plant residues have been removed, weeds have been collected, the plot is dug up and organic fertilizers are applied to the soil, and nitrogen fertilizers are applied in the spring. Large lumps formed ...

Not many gardeners can boast a really solid harvest, without the use of chemistry, of course! Often the reasons are laziness or lack of human power. When there is not enough human strength, it is not so easy to keep track of almost all cultures, as there is always enough work on every garden plot. But if you invest so much effort, and the result is still not happy, you should use the usual rules that you must follow. The first thing to do ...

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Long can grow a fruit tree in one place - up to 100 years or more. But every year it will not be the same plant that was before. It seems to be invisible changes, but in fact the tree all the time changes and its appearance, and structure. Some of its parts, organs and tissues annually grow, increase in volume and mass, and live for a number of years, others are formed at the beginning of the growing season and ...

Unstable weather in late spring: the heat, as in midsummer, the sudden cold snap, right up to frost; then it is dry and there is no end to it, then the unexpected wind will bring rain, but it is so cold that everything seemed to cringe and froze. To match the weather and the mood of the gardener. Something bothers him, no matter how it dries out the soil and the plants, then, on the contrary, everything will flood. Whatever you say, but spring is for the gardener ...

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Compliance with the timing of sowing crops.

The result of choosing the optimal sowing time will be the formation of hardy and pest-competitive crops, as well as a reduced likelihood of developing plant diseases and high yields. To determine the optimal sowing time, you need:

• know the total duration of the growing season and its compliance with the climatic zone;
• comply with the requirements of cultivated crops to soil temperature and moisture consumption;
• take into account contamination of crops.

The use of high quality seeds, the most productive varieties and hybrids.

On this depends the realization of the potential of a variety of crops. Purchase seeds only from reputable, reputable manufacturers - they will ensure good germination.

Proper care.

An important factor in increasing yields are pre-sowing tillage, harrowing, plowing, the timely holding of sowing, plant protection from diseases, pests and weeds, regular work to improve soil fertility. Yields can also be increased by retardants, which can not only accelerate growth, but also greatly facilitate harvesting.

Compliance with crop rotation.

Competent crop rotation will help replenish soil nutrients, make better use of fertilizers, protect the soil from erosion, prevent the spread of pests, weeds and diseases. Agronomists know that cultures should alternate with each other - this is how the optimum balance of nutrients in the soil will be created, therefore, the yield of subsequent crops will increase.

Weather forecasting.

Knowing the features of the climatic zone and the onset of “critical phases” of the growing season, one can take the necessary measures to protect plants. For example, a number of crops require overwintering, so they are sown in the fall. These include winter varieties of wheat, rye, barley, etc.

The quality of agricultural machinery.

Labor productivity in the field directly depends on the quantity and quality of agricultural machinery. It is necessary to update the worn elements in a timely manner in order to avoid breakage at an unnecessary moment. Only with the help of uninterrupted equipment can increase crop yields - uneven and untimely processing leads not only to downtime and time-consuming equipment, but also to the loss of a significant part of crop production.

Yield increase   - It is a controlled process that can be managed independently and adjusted if necessary. Follow the basic recommendations, use only proven tools and drugs, and at the end of the season you will be able to harvest a rich harvest.