The correspondence about experience of cultivation of carrots under a layer of an opilochny mulch is published.
From experience of the practician
From experience of the practician
Last summer, having arrived on a country site of the Dzhankoysky gardener and truck farmer Nikolay Maksimov, got just on carrots harvesting. Surprised, to admit, with what ease, without resorting to shovel services, the truck farmer pulled out for green "plaits" from covered with a layer of sawdust of the earth krupnyushchy root crops.
He explained then that closely was engaged in organic agriculture, and now its all garden site and a kitchen garden are filled up with a five-centimetric layer of sawdust which induce earthworms, by the way, intensively breeding in the mulched blanket of the soil to work at full capacity, processing sawdust in a humus, loosening the soil and creating in its top layer favorable for development of plants microflora.
- Look, what miracle grows under sawdust! – the truck farmer admires, showing me weighty orange root crop just taken out from the earth.
Then to me a lack of time was to take an interest in details of technology of cultivation of carrots under an opilochny mulch, but now when decided to grow up itself carrot in the same way, there were some questions. Having arrived to Maksimov once again, asked it to make detailed explanations.
-, In general, it is a little details – he noticed and explained, as as does in order that the crop was successful.
Before carrots crops the truck farmer on a bed rakes sawdust so that they settled rollers from two parties a ryadka in which will be poseyana carrots. After its seeds vyseyany, it powders them from above with a thin layer of humus-syptsa, and then includes a drop irrigation.
After emergence of shoots waits when the tops of vegetable rises so that it was possible to close sawdust all bed.
Well and after any weedings, any rykhleniye of the soil. Work only "droplet" and earthworms. Sawdust, by the way, well accumulates and holds moisture, and hearts – structures the soil, prepares a food for plants.
Here in such a way truck farmer Nikolay Maksimov also grows up a crop of carrots not only high, but also a good trade dress, the ecological pure.
V. PAVLOV.