The end of summer and autumn is a hot season in the garden. You need to do so much: harvest, fertilize trees and shrubs, prepare the garden for wintering, pickle and pickle vegetables, cook jams, prepare beds for winter. In a word, there is enough work.
Preparation of beds for winter in the greenhouse
After harvesting in the greenhouse, you need to clean up here, that is, clear the soil of all waste - seeds, roots, remains of stems and leaves, pests. The last, by the way, the most difficult and unpleasant. To destroy the larvae of various garden insects, the soil in the greenhouse must be decontaminated.
There are several common methods for this:
- fumigation with sulfur;
- watering with a solution of 40% carbathion and carbophos ;
- digging;
- manual assembly of larvae.
Further beds in the greenhouse need to be fertilized. For this, in the process of digging into the soil, humus, manure, peat, superphosphate or potassium sulfate are applied. The proportions of fertilizers are calculated depending on what will be planted in the greenhouse next year.
From above you need to sprinkle the beds with sand or ash and cover with straw. Another good option is to keep the heat of the earth - to cover the hothouse land with fallen snow. In the spring it will melt and soak up the dry soil with moisture.
Preparation of warm beds for winter
As you know, a warm patch is a bed consisting of plant remains. It is designed in such a way that during the decomposition of the organics it emits a lot of heat, warming the roots of the plants and helping them to withstand the cold. In addition, in this bed is allocated a lot of carbon dioxide, which contributes to the rich formation of nutrients in plants.
Preparation of such beds should be done during the winter. At this time in the garden is freed up a lot of space and accumulates enough plant remains.
For it, you need to build a wooden box, inside to trample the grass and lay on it first wood waste (wood chips, branches). Next, we lay the paper (cardboard, newspapers, etc.), and then - the manure, compost or humus. And from above all this is covered with mown grass, weed-weed.
The bed is tedious to be watered daily, so that the organics begin to rot. In the spring you just sprinkle it with 10 centimeters of humus and proceed to planting or planting it.