Several years of work at a summer cottage have changed my life a lot. Most importantly, they brought joy and satisfaction. And what inventors are my colleagues in the garden! I never cease to be amazed! I learned a lot from them and I hope I will learn a lot more. I decided to collect all the garden secrets and dacha tricks or useful advice for gardeners in one place. I am sure that there are a lot of little tricks for gardeners and truck farmers and the page will be constantly updated.
1. Tops of tomatoes from pests
Pour the cut tops of tomatoes (stepsons, lower leaves) with water. Insist for a day. You can spray cruciferous (for example, cabbage, radish, radish, etc.) and pumpkin (cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkins) from various pests with this composition. Another secret - if the tops are allowed to sour, then you get an excellent top dressing for any crops.
2. How to water onions sown with seeds so that they are healthy
Nigella onions should be watered not only with water, but alternately, then with a weak ash solution (1 glass of ash per bucket of water), then with a very weak solution of potassium permanganate - all pests disappear - the onion becomes strong, healthy.
3. How to keep carrots until spring?
Just leave one bed of carrots untouched. Carefully tear off all the tops, cover the garden bed on top of your palm with earth. In the spring, grab the ground - dig up the carrots. It will be fresh, juicy, delicious!
5.Parsley shoots will appear in three hours
Many of us grow greens for the table on the window or balcony. It is very comfortable. Parsley seeds germinate very slowly, but there is one trick to "make" them germinate very quickly. Prepare a container with earth, moisten it, sprinkle the earth with quicklime three times every 10-15 minutes. Sow parsley seeds, previously soaked in milk. The seeds will sprout in three hours. The room should be warm, not lower than 20 ° C.
6. Iodine for the garden
a) If, when growing seedlings, tomatoes are watered once with a weak iodine solution (one drop of iodine per three liters of water), flower brushes will form faster, will be more branched, and the number of ovaries will increase. Fruits on such tomatoes will be 10-15% larger, ripen a few days earlier. When the seedlings are planted in the ground, then after two weeks the plants can again be watered with iodine water 1 liter under each root (three drops of iodine in a bucket of water).
b) To protect strawberries from gray rot, it is useful to sprinkle the bushes with a solution of iodine (10 ml per 10 liters of water) 2-3 times at intervals of 10 days.
7 pine needles in pest control
Pine needles can be effectively used to combat garden and vegetable pests. To do this, take 1 kg of needles per 5 liters of water, place in a dark place for a week. Stir the infusion daily in order to extract the necessary substances from the pine needles. Then strain the infusion. Add water to the original volume before spraying. Adding 20 g of liquid soap to 5 liters of infusion increases its effectiveness. The infusion of pine needles should be used against aphids, copperheads.
When you urgently need to prepare an infusion, you can take pine needles, pour boiling water over them in a 1: 1 ratio, leave for 24 hours. Strain, add liquid soap - the preparation is ready. Such a strong infusion should be diluted 1: 5 with water before use. The experience of gardeners has shown that spraying should be carried out in the late afternoon. The effect increases many times over.
According to the norms, the advice is as follows: for a currant bush - 1.5 liters, for a gooseberry bush - 1 liter, for a raspberry bush - 2 liters, for a square meter of strawberries - 0.2 liters, for an adult tree - 10 liters. Currants and gooseberries are sprayed at the very beginning of flowering, in order to prevent the appearance of moths. Repeat the operation with an interval of 5 days.
An infusion of pine needles helps strawberries against gray rot - this is very important for preserving the harvest. Pine suppresses gray rot during the ripening period of berries, so it is a good idea to mulch strawberry plantings with pine needles.
8. To keep strawberries, strawberries from birds
immediately after flowering, place various small objects painted in bright red color between the plants, similar to ripe berries (for example, walnuts, round pebbles). By the time the berries are ripe, curious birds will already understand that they have nothing to do here.
9. How to use bird (chicken, pigeon) droppings?
It should be remembered that poultry manure is a very concentrated fertilizer; you cannot overestimate the doses of its use. When digging the soil for 1 sq. m make 500 g of dry bird droppings. When planting plants, it is introduced into holes, nests no more than 8-10 g per plant. Liquid dressings are effective: fresh bird droppings are diluted with water in this ratio - if fresh bird droppings, then 1 kg per 10 liters of water, and if dry, then 1 kg per 20 liters of water.
As soon as the bird droppings get wet, it is well mixed and brought under the plants, without leaving it to ferment. A solution of poultry droppings is consumed in 2 liters per 1 sq. m. After the soil near the plant has been watered with this solution, it should be covered with a layer of dry soil 1 cm thick and watered with clean water.
10. Burning trash
Burning garden trash in spring or late autumn is a challenge for many gardeners. Wet residues do not want to flare up. In this difficult task ... a brick will help. Put it in a dry place first so that it dries well. Submerge dry bricks completely in kerosene for three hours. When it's soaked, wrap it in plastic wrap. Firstly, so that it does not "aromatize" the air, and secondly, it will retain its flammable properties longer. When it is necessary to burn the garbage, it is placed inside the prepared heap and set on fire.
It burns for a long time and evenly. To then extinguish the flame, the brick is pulled out of the fire with a stick, covered with a wet, dense cloth.
11. How to sow carrots without hassle?
Carrots have very small seeds. Sowing them is very inconvenient - sometimes a lot, sometimes a little falls into the groove of the garden. There is an exit! Take the small medicine bottle. Make a small hole in the lid, a little larger than the carrot seed. Put the seeds in a bottle and, with a lid on, sow on the garden bed like salt. Get a very economical option.
12. About tool sharpening
We gardeners and gardeners need a good cutting tool: garden knives, shovels, pruners, axes, hoes, flat cutters, saws. But, alas, it is very rare now to buy a quality instrument. The choppers quickly become blunt and serrated. The shovels bend and break. Our heavy black soil does not withstand all modern tools. But these disadvantages can be easily eliminated by treating them with a weak solution of sodium chloride.
Gardeners have been using hardening and the point of cutting tools in a solution of sodium chloride for a long time. I learned about this trick, this way of sharpening from my father.
The solution is simple to prepare: 1 glass of water + 1 tablespoon of salt. Water temperature matters. If the tool is made of hard and brittle (brittle) steel, then it should be slightly warm - + 28-35 ° С. And if the steel is soft, then the water of the salt solution should be even warmer - + 35-40 ° С. Of course, the volume of the mortar depends on the size of the tool that you will be preparing for sharpening. The tool must be completely submerged in water.
If you are going to harden a new tool with salt, then you first need to sharpen it, and then put it in a salty solution for half an hour. After that, it can already be sharpened and directed completely. Rinse the tool periodically in salt water while sharpening. Father is sure that with such a sharpening the tool will not break - the fragility will disappear, solid steel will become more elastic. Moreover, this tool does not dull longer and does not grind as quickly as when sharpening without using salt water.
13. Treatment of seeds before sowing
Treatment of seeds with hydrogen peroxide is not a completely new, but rather promising method of disinfecting and preparing seed material for sowing, especially in the absence of potassium permanganate on sale, which is familiar to us. At the same time, hydrogen peroxide increases the sowing quality of seeds, plant immunity, growth and development rates, and increases the yield.
To improve sowing qualities and stimulate germination, the seeds are soaked in a 0.4% solution of hydrogen peroxide for 12 hours, and difficult to germinate, for example, beetroot and parsley seeds, for 24 hours.
For disinfection, the seed is treated in a 10% solution of hydrogen peroxide for 20 minutes at a ratio of the mass of seeds to the solution of 1: 1. Then the seeds are washed with water and dried to the flowability required for sowing.
Soaking seeds in a 0.4% solution of hydrogen peroxide increases the germination energy, accelerates the emergence of seedlings by 2-4 days, increases productivity, and helps to reduce the content of nitrates in products. Treatment of seed with 10% hydrogen peroxide solution reduces the contamination of seeds with pathogens.
Don't be lazy! Treat and disinfect the seeds before sowing with hydrogen peroxide, and the result will not be long in coming.
14. How to protect trees in winter from hares and mice
It turns out that you can do without such time-consuming work as tying the boles of young trees with foil, spruce branches and other materials. The trick is that hares do not tolerate certain odors. For example, the smell of fish oil or stale bacon. Lubricate the trunks with one of these "preparations". There is another way: hang bags of mothballs on the lower branches of the tree.
15. Bell peppers stopped setting new fruits
How to "force" the pepper to set new fruits? I read the answer to this question a long time ago, but was in no hurry to publish it, as I myself forgot to follow it in practice. It often happens (for me, at least), it seems that you know about something, but memory does not throw up the answer at the right moment. And in the past year (summer 2018) just such a situation happened with sweet pepper. It bloomed in time, fruit set, but there were no new flowers. And I really saw that I would not see a big harvest. Quite by accident, looking through my notes, I saw this advice and decided that it would not be worse than it is. All the same, there will be little pepper.
So the advice was that as soon as you saw that after the first ovaries of pepper no new buds are formed, you must mercilessly break off all the ovaries. The practical experience of expert gardeners assured that after such an operation the pepper would begin to bloom with renewed vigor and by the end of the gardening season it would give a good harvest.
I could not mercilessly cut off all the ovaries, as you might have guessed. A worm of doubt: how to cut it all off, suddenly nothing will happen at all, did not let me do it on all plants. I still left some of the peppers with ovaries untouched. So what? The advisers were right!
After 10-12 days, the peppers with dangling fruits gave as many buds as I had never had before. Some of the ovaries and flowers fell off, but a sufficient number of fruits were set. These peppers did not stop flowering anymore. The ovaries formed regularly, the plants themselves became more powerful, branched than those that I regretted. I was not left without a harvest! By the way, the peppers left with the ovaries stood for a very long time without new ovaries. They appeared only closer to autumn, but did not have time to fully mature.
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In the "Garden and Beds" section, you will find a lot of useful information about the intricacies of growing new and popular garden crops, learn about various ways of arranging garden beds, and you can also talk about this topic with other users of the site.
The opinion that a summer residence and a vegetable garden is an occupation for pensioners has long been hopelessly outdated. Having a vegetable garden on the site and doing it is not boring at all, rather, on the contrary, it is exciting and useful. Especially today, when there are a lot of different technologies and modern tools that greatly facilitate human labor.
A modern garden in the country is a truly unique opportunity to turn hard work into joy. To do this, it is enough to approach the matter correctly - to arm yourself with the necessary tools, knowledge and, of course, the invaluable experience of a whole army of gardeners. Successfully growing various vegetables and herbs in their garden, they will willingly teach you all the intricacies of this simple, very exciting and useful business. It is in order to share with each other the secrets of growing different crops in the garden that this section of the site was created.
The main purpose of this section is to help you create such beds in the garden that would be spent a minimum of effort, while they would bring you maximum benefit. In this section, you will learn how to properly plant garden beds and increase yields with the least labor costs. How to deal with garden pests and what exactly to plant in the garden so that you always have an excellent harvest, regardless of the weather conditions and the region, and you could proudly declare: "We are planting the garden correctly!"
In the "Garden and Gardens" section, you can not only discuss various vegetable crops and share the secrets of their cultivation, telling how to plant a vegetable garden correctly, but also learn the opinions of experts. We will collect for you all the most valuable and useful tips and pass them through the prism of the knowledge of experienced people, real bison in agriculture, so that the garden in the country will only bring you benefit and pleasure. Let's talk about ways to protect plants from pests and diseases, find out what fertilizers are best to use in order to preserve the crop and not harm your health. We will hear the recommendations of experts not only on how to grow vegetables in the garden, but also on how to properly preserve them until next year.
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If your hands start to itch from the words "summer cottage garden", and your legs start to dance, if an incredible number of ideas arise in your head, and your heart begins to beat faster - this article is definitely intended for you. We will tell you how to bring to life the most amazing creative ideas for decorating a summer cottage, we will advise what flowers can be grown on chic man-made flower beds, we will demonstrate a huge amount of photo and video materials with fresh and non-trivial solutions for arranging a summer cottage.
Make yourself comfortable, our magic piggy bank of ideas called "garden, vegetable garden, dacha: all the brightest and most interesting with your own hands" opens up its precious knowledge to you.
Anyone who has a country house and a desire to work a little can become the owners of the most beautiful territory for a pleasant stay and productive creative work. And the main thing is that this does not take much time, money and effort. Don't believe me? Read our tips. 
- If you do not have enough space in the country, but you want to plant everything - tasty, healthy, and beautiful, make decorative beds... So, in a small corner of the earth, you can combine flowers, vegetables and herbs by arranging them in a small garden-garden.
- Save space and decorate your summer cottage will help climbing plants (vines).Plant ipomoea, sweet peas, dolichos, kobei or nasturtium in the country and you will get living walls of fragrant flowers and fresh leaves that will bring you the desired shade, comfort and peace.
- Another idea for a small plot is high beds... In such a garden it will be easier to care for the plants, they will be located closer to the sun and will bring more fruit and aesthetic satisfaction. There are many interesting YouTube videos available on the network with tips and advice on how to arrange tall beds.
- We decorate the yard for the benefit of the environment. If you don't know where to dispose of old tires, furniture, plastic bottles, and other rubbish, try making something useful and original out of it. From unnecessary things sometimes get exclusive productswhich will become the subject of oohs and oohs for all your guests and neighbors. Don't miss this opportunity.
- Favorite shoes at the end of its main mission, it can act as flower pots.
- Your summer cottage history can grow into a real family hobby - involve your children and grandchildren in caring for plants.
- Little tricks will help you not only to save earthly space, but not to use it at all.
- Good news for everyone who has their own dacha, garden, vegetable garden - useful tips to touch not only your beds, flower beds and flower beds. Equip yourself cozy area for rest and relaxation, and your summer cottage life will sparkle with new bright colors.
DIY garden and vegetable garden design: photos of interesting ideas
This section will have less words and more action. And even more - wonderful photos, bright ideas, unusual solutions for your summer cottage.
Made of wood you can make not only garden furniture and a reliable fence, but also turn an ordinary snag into an element of landscape art. 
Conventional firewood can serve as a decor in the interior of the living room or fireplace room. 
Cozy hacienda Is a place where you can comfortably relax from the bustle of the city and enjoy the magic of the surrounding nature. 
New solution for using your old stuff.
Beautiful decoration of stones will be the highlight of any suburban area. 
If you dream that your flower bed is not like everyone else, take the risk of making it into a real flower stream... An overturned bucket, a jug or a container that is completely unusual for landscape design is suitable as a "source". 
But the "stream" can be chosen at your discretion. Flowers such as violet, periwinkle, carpet phlox look beautiful in the stream. Plant plants as seedlings, close to each other. Then your stream will be smooth and full-flowing. 
From improvised means you can make chic fence for garden beds... Now you will definitely not get confused about what you have and where is planted.
And this - mini greenhouse... It can be made from unnecessary window frames. 
Eustoma will decorate your garden Eustoma is a very attractive plant with gray, wax-like leaves and large funnel-shaped simple or double flowers of delicate shades. The flowers of the large-flowered eustoma reach 7–8 cm in diameter. They come in a wide variety of colors - white, pink, lilac, purple, white with a colored border, etc. Half-open flowers look like rosebuds, and when they open completely, they look like large poppies. The stems of the eustoma are strong, 80–90 cm in height, branching strongly from about the middle, making one plant look like a whole bunch. On one plant, I once counted 35 buds. All varieties of tall eustoma give long stems and are suitable for cutting. And cut flowers stand in a vase for a long time. Reproduction Unfortunately, eustoma does not reproduce by dividing the bush - this, as a rule, ends in failure. Since an adult Lisianthus does not tolerate a violation of the root system, all the resulting cuttings can die. Cut off cuttings of eustoma do not take root either. Therefore, the main and most reliable way to propagate this beautifully flowering plant is by seeds. Dates of sowing seeds Amateur flower growers begin sowing eustoma seeds in winter (December - January). This is due to the fact that the flowering of eustoma occurs 15–20 weeks after the emergence of seedlings, therefore, during spring sowing, it simply does not have time to bloom. I sow eustoma seeds from late November to early February. It makes no sense to sow later, I was convinced of this when my first eustomas with buds were covered with snow. We did not manage to admire their flowering. Sowing in detail Eustoma seeds are sown in disposable cups (50 g) with a light moist peat soil, to which sand or perlite is added to make it looser and more breathable. From purchased substrates, ready-made soil for Saintpaulias is suitable. Sow the seeds superficially and slightly press into the soil, after a month and a half you need to make a dive. After sowing, put plastic bags on the cups to create a greenhouse effect and you can wait for seedlings to appear. Lighting and temperature The first two months after sowing, eustoma seedlings need bright diffused lighting so that they grow compactly and do not stretch out. Such lighting can only be created using fluorescent lamps. The optimum temperature for germination of eustoma seeds is 20-25 ° C, small shoots appear in 10-15 days, the first two months they develop slowly. Watering seedlings For the first two months, seedlings are practically not watered, because immediately after sowing, put plastic bags on the cups, and the moisture under the bags remains for a long time. Experience shows that eustoma seedlings growing in such greenhouse conditions need watering only once every 2-3 weeks, and even then not abundant. Small eustoma seedlings in a month and a half after the emergence of shoots must be dived into separate cups. In late February - early March, the already grown young plants should be transplanted by transshipment, without destroying the earthen coma, into pots with a diameter of 8 cm.On the bottom of the pots, it is imperative to pour a thin layer of drainage from expanded clay, zeolite or just finely crushed polystyrene. Place the transplanted plants on a windowsill well-lit by the sun and gradually, removing the bags and accustoming them to the sun, adapt the seedlings to filmless maintenance. So eustoma grows in these pots until the seedlings are planted in the garden. In mid-May, plant seedlings in a flower bed. The eustoma is ready for transplanting when 4–8 true leaves have formed. As soon as the eustoma is planted in open ground, it immediately starts to grow. So in a month you will no longer recognize her. Eustoma feeding should be started after good rooting of the seedlings, about a month after planting. For this, you can use high-quality mineral fertilizers for flowering plants, which are completely soluble in water.
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Irina Kondratyeva: My new experience of growing winter garlic. Gardener's World magazine, October 2018, p. 5: "Experienced gardeners have special secrets of planting garlic. Sometimes these are the smallest details that summer residents do not pay attention to. But in vain. Here is a secret. Chives of garlic are accurately oriented when planting. In diameter they have the shape of a "lopsided" drop - one side is rounded, the other has a rib. The rib is set so that it faces north or south, then the head of garlic grows much larger, because the plane of the fan of leaves is located from north to south, and the plant is better illuminated and In the fall of 2018, I planted the rounded side to the south. The fan of leaves in 90% of the garlic grew up turned to the south! The remaining 10% of the "naughty" garlic leaves are not quite oriented, apparently due to the fact that the cloves in the process of rooting turned in the ground. In general, the advice from the magazine works! We are waiting for the harvest!
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Recipe for feeding a tomato Over the summer I spent three such feeding. As a result, we got an excellent harvest! The tomato bushes grew powerful, there were no burns on the fruits, the plants easily tolerated heat and any bad weather. But the biggest surprise was that the tomatoes ripened and delighted us throughout October, despite the rains and cold nights. The end result was great joy. You will need: Water - 2.5 - 2.7 liters Yeast - 100 g Sugar - 0.5 cups Preparation: Pour 2.5 - 2.7 liters of water without chlorine (settled) into a three-liter jar. I dilute yeast in warm water. I add diluted yeast and sugar to the jar. Covering with gauze, keep the jar warm, shaking the contents from time to time. The solution (mash) is ready when fermentation ends. I dilute one glass in 10 liters of water and water it under each bush. Have a good harvest!
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Symptoms of Micronutrient Deficiency in Cucumbers Symptoms of deficiencies in each of the essential nutrients in cucumbers are very clear and very definite. Magnesium In the absence of magnesium, the leaves of the cucumber become brittle and appear to be burnt. They acquire a lighter color (pale green, yellowish), only the veins remain intense green. Nitrogen With a lack of nitrogen, the stems become thin, acquire hardness and fiber. The lower leaves droop and the upper ones turn yellow - they become light green. Fruits are small, few are formed, cucumbers develop poorly and gain weight slowly. Ambulance - immediate feeding with mullein solution per liter per plant. The composition of the dressing is a liter of mullein per 10 liters of water. Potassium With a lack of potassium, the leaves become dark and dome-shaped. They grow small, and a light yellow border can be seen along the edge of the leaf. In varieties of cucumbers, the fruits of which are elongated, the cucumbers grow round, tapering at the stalk. Ambulance - a glass of ash for a 10-liter bucket of water, water at the rate of a liter of mixture per plant. Phosphorus fertilizers for cucumbers With a lack of phosphorus, plants stop growing, flowers and ovaries fall off, the leaves become bluish-green and small. Boron excess It is characterized by the death of living tissue along the edges of the leaf and the dome-shaped shape of the leaves. Excess calcium Leaves become brittle and tough. Excess fertilizers It is noteworthy that not only a lack of some elements is dangerous for cucumbers, but also an excess - in this case, growth also slows down and fruiting weakens.
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Iodine, ammonia, brilliant green - in the garden! Iodine in the garden An ordinary bottle of iodine is able to provide the gardener with more than one great service. Since we all know from childhood that iodine is an excellent antiseptic, it is a sin not to use this property in the prevention of plant diseases, especially all kinds of rot. A solution of 5-10 drops of iodine in ten liters of water is recommended to spray strawberries and strawberries before flowering. This simple procedure will rid her of gray mold and revitalize her vitality. Spraying is carried out 2-3 times with an interval of ten days. A solution of one drop of iodine in three liters of water is watered once on tomato seedlings to increase productivity and future fruit sizes. After planting the seedlings in the ground, you can carry out iodine feeding again by adding three drops of iodine to a bucket of water. Watering rate: liter for a bush. If you mix 40 drops of iodine with a liter of whey and a tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide in 10 liters of water, you will get an excellent remedy for combating the hated late blight. Adding a liter of low-fat milk and 10-12 drops of iodine to 9 liters of water, a solution is obtained that destroys downy mildew on cucumbers. In addition, iodine is part of the remedies that prevent yellowing of the leaves of cucumbers and contribute to the rejuvenation of the lashes. ONION FEEDING WITH AMBER The tips of the onion feathers turned pale, and the feather itself became yellowish ?! He lacks nitrogen. A solution of ammonia will help to replenish it. It is done as follows: in 10 liters of water, dilute 3 tablespoons of nashatyr, and in the evening pour the onion with this solution under the root. Zelenka in the garden Brilliant green solution is no less famous than iodine, it can also be used in the dacha economy, do not hesitate. Zelenka can be used to lubricate wounds to plants with small pruning or accidental damage instead of garden var. 40 drops of brilliant green dissolved in a bucket of water will help rid tomatoes of phytophthora, and cucumbers - from powdery mildew. In order not to measure it drop by drop each time, you can dilute a bottle of brilliant green in a liter of water, and then add a little bit to the water for spraying by eye. Spraying cherries with a weak solution of brilliant green promotes better fruit setting. Trichopolum in the garden "Trichopol" is used as a prophylactic agent against phytophthora. For this purpose, 1 tablet of Trichopolum is dissolved in 1 liter of water and the tomatoes are sprayed every two weeks. Aspirin in the garden Aspirin is part of one of the means to combat gooseberry and currant powdery mildew. Potassium permanganate in the garden Potassium permanganate is well known to any gardener and is used everywhere. First of all, in a pink solution of potassium permanganate (0.5 grams per 100 ml), it is recommended to pickle the seeds before planting in order to destroy possible pathogens that winter on the seeds. For this purpose, the seeds are soaked in the solution for 20 minutes and then dried. If you add boric acid at the tip of a knife to a bucket of pink solution of potassium permanganate (3 grams per 10 liters), then a good early-spring feeding for strawberries, raspberries, currants and gooseberries will come out. This feeding option is especially good in areas with sandy soils. 2 teaspoons of potassium permanganate, dissolved in 10 liters of water, will save strawberries from gray rot, if you do not forget to spray the berries after flowering. In a dark pink solution of potassium permanganate, potatoes are soaked before planting, as well as seed tubers before storage. Neither wireworm nor pathogenic fungi like this treatment. In addition, soil for seedlings dissolved in water is spilled with potassium permanganate, boxes, cups and pots in which they plan to grow seedlings or forcing greens are washed, greenhouses and hotbeds are processed inside and outside to prevent plant diseases. The only thing that should not be forgotten when using potassium permanganate is that everything is good in moderation. You shouldn't get too carried away with watering with "rose water". Excess manganese in the soil can adversely affect crop development.
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HOW TO HELP ONION FEATURES TO GREEN AGAIN It is impossible to imagine the hostess's kitchen without onions. Let his tears flow like a river, but in many dishes a vegetable is necessary. Therefore, in private plots, onions are grown everywhere. It is planted either for the winter or in the spring. Onions grow well. Rarely enough is capricious and dissatisfied. But it signals about serious problems. Often - yellowing of the feather. What if the onion turns yellow? It all depends on the season. If the onion began to turn yellow in June, for example, then this is bad. The plant is not satisfied with something. Or someone is wound up in the garden. You need to figure out why the feather of the onion turns yellow, and take action. If this happens at the end of July, then there is no reason for concern. The harvest began to ripen. We will clean up soon. Provocateurs of yellowness: Why do onion leaves turn yellow? Causes of the problem: a pest has wound up, the soil lacks nitrogen, the plant lacks moisture. Rescue measures will depend on the specific reason. Pests: As a rule, the plant is damaged by flies and lurkers. Onion fly Symptoms of its presence: feathers turn yellow and wither early, a larva can be found in the bulb, the vegetable rots, and the plant is pulled out of the ground very easily, even accidentally during weeding. Pest orientation: 1. The size of an adult is about seven millimeters. The body is yellowish-gray with dark sparse stripes. 2. The larva is a white worm with cone-like processes at the end. It can be seen in the bulb or in the soil near the plant. Pupae of flies overwinter in the soil. In the spring, the pupae wake up. The egg-laying coincides with the flowering of dandelions. After a week, the larvae appear. They make their way into the bulb and feed on it. Protective measures: Deep digging of soil before sowing; early landing; proximity to carrots, the smell of which scares off flies; destruction of infected plants; sprinkling the earth around the onion with ash mixed with tobacco dust; cleaning from the garden of all plant residues. Onion lurker A very dangerous pest that eats away feathers from the inside. Signs of its invasion: on the leaves - white spots and longitudinal stripes, yellow tips of feathers, curling and drying of the feather. For young plantings, both adults and larvae are dangerous. How to recognize a pest? 1. An adult beetle is a small insect up to two millimeters long. The body is covered with light scales. The tarsi and elytra are brownish. There is a light stripe at the base of the elytra. 2. The larva is a light-colored worm with a dark head. Lurkers hibernate in the ground, grass, bushes, or unharvested onions. They feed on them in the spring, gradually moving to fresh plantings. The female gnaws an onion feather and lays eggs there. After two weeks, the larvae are born. They eat the inner contents of feathers, and then descend into the soil to pupate. Protective measures: timely cleaning of plant residues; sowing on ridges remote from the plantings of the previous year; regular loosening of row spacings; cutting off damaged feathers plus loosening. Lack of nitrogen in the soil It can be observed both on dry days and on rainy days. Nitrogen is absorbed in dissolved form, so moisture is needed. At the same time, after heavy rainfall, nitrogenous compounds go too deep, from where the plant roots cannot absorb them. To compensate for the nitrogen deficiency, periodically onions are fertilized with saltpeter, ammonium sulfate, urea or slurry. Lack of moisture During the period of active growth and gaining strength, onions need regular watering. Here are some guidelines: Water the plant before and after weeding; water is poured into the grooves made between green bushes; with dense plantings, when you have to water over the feathers, use a watering can so that the water does not wash out the soil near the bulb; the need for watering is checked with a finger; if the soil is dry at the depth of the nail, then you need to water; watering is stopped a month and a half before harvesting. Saving the pen: Consider several popular methods of complex dealing with the problem. That is, such recipes that allow you to immediately eliminate several reasons. 1. In ten liters of warm water, dissolve half a glass of table salt and one ampoule of ammonia. Add three cakes of ash. Water this composition every ten days. Until the feathers turn green again. 2. Soak the planting material in strong potassium permanganate and plant in rows sprinkled with salt. 3. For half a bucket of water - half a tablespoon of iodine, two bags of potassium permanganate and five hundred grams of soda. It is a concentrated formulation. It must still be diluted in water at a ratio of 1:10. And already divorced to water. 4. Sprinkle the aisles with sand mixed with mothballs.
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What plants improve the soil Plants that improve the soil In order to improve the chemical and physical properties of the soil, to increase its fertility, they resort to phytomelioration. Thanks to the use of phytomeliorant plants, the soil can be cleared of diseases and pests, reduce the number of weeds, reduce pollution, etc. Phytomeliorants include green manure plants and concentrator plants. Green manure is grown as a green manure. This is one of the most effective ways to restore soil fertility. Legumes and other plants or mixtures thereof are used as green fertilizers. Legumes enrich the soil with nitrogen. The most commonly used green fertilizer is fodder peas, broad beans, narrow-leaved lupine, beans, phacelia, seradella, vetch, clover, yellow and white sweet clover. Green fertilizer can heal the soil. In this regard, the most suitable are plants of the Cruciferous family - radish, rapeseed, mustard, rape. They suppress the growth of weeds through their rapid development. In addition, pests such as wireworms do not like mustard, and marigolds and spring rape can destroy several types of nematodes. Also, the planting of cruciferous plants prevents the leaching of mineral elements from the soil, and mustard helps plants to obtain hardly soluble phosphates. If the soil is light, then phytomeliorants will increase its moisture capacity, and on heavy soil, they will improve the water regime. Concentrating plants absorb certain elements in large quantities, i.e. are phytoremedians. They are planted in order to clear the soil of heavy metals. If these plants are used every year, the level of heavy elements in the soil will be significantly reduced. ➣ Legumes are capable of accumulating 6 times more radioactive elements than cereals. To cleanse the soil from radioactive elements, it is necessary to plant barley, alfalfa, mustard, sunflower, dwarf or downy birch. Plants that are used for green fertilization are crushed and then embedded in the soil. They are dripped in during budding and at the beginning of flowering, because it is at this time that a large amount of biologically active substances are present in them. On light soils, plants are planted to a depth of 12-15 cm, on heavy soils - by 6-8 cm. Siderata Siderata (green fertilizer) are plants that quickly form a green mass and are a source of organic matter and nitrogen for other plants. Siderata are sown to enrich the soil with nitrogen and organic matter, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, improve the soil structure and its physical and physicochemical properties, increase the activity of beneficial microflora, protect the soil from erosion and deflation, and suppress the growth of weeds. Siderates have a phytosanitary effect, attract beneficial insects due to their bright colors, etc. Siderates are plowed into the soil before seeds form. Thus, they do not allow their self-seeding and transformation into weeds, and the soil at the same time receives a supply of certain nutrients. The most frequently planted green manures: legumes - lupine, beans, soybeans, lentils, seradella, clover, sainfoin, fodder beans, sowing and field peas, alfalfa, sweet clover, spring and winter vetch, sachet-grass, etc .; cruciferous - mustard, colza, rapeseed, oilseed radish; buckwheat - buckwheat; hydrophiles - phacelia; Compositae - sunflower; cereals - rye, oats, wheat, barley. Sowing principles of siderates Siderates are sown in spring and autumn, before and after planting the main crop. They sow heavily in spring, less often in autumn. If sown in early spring, then pick up early ripening cold-resistant plants - oats, mustard, fodder peas. Green manures are plowed 1-2 weeks before planting the main crop. The effectiveness of green fertilizer depends on the age of the plants. Young plants are rich in nitrogen, so after embedding the main crop can be planted in 2-4 weeks. It is important to remember that too much green mass should not be sealed. Preparing the soil The soil for green manure crops should be well prepared. Every year in early May, it is necessary to sow in different areas such early ripening crops as peas, dill, early potatoes, radishes, kohlrabi, lettuce, cauliflower. After harvesting, plant residues must be embedded in the soil, level the surface and sow green fertilizer, after adding 1 bucket of nitroammophoska per 1 hundred square meters. If the soils are acidic, then add 0.3-0.5 kg of lime per 1 m2 to a depth of 5-7 cm. The seeds are sown randomly, covered with a rake, and sprinkled with earth. Some siderata Lupine are a genus of plants in the legume family, grown for green manure. Lupine is capable of accumulating up to 200 kg of nitrogen per hectare in the soil. Lupine grows well in poor acidic soils. The plant is sown in late July - mid-August after harvesting potatoes, cabbage, greens. Almost all crops can be grown after lupine. Seradella sowing is a genus of plants in the legume family. Moisture-loving, growing well on light, slightly acidic soils. Seradella is usually sown in early spring as an independent crop or sown to cereals (oats, rye). Melilot, burkun - a genus of biennial, sometimes annual plants of the legume family. Sow it in the spring, summer or fall. In crop rotation, they are often sown under the cover of grain crops. Grows well in neutral soil. White mustard is an annual oil plant of the Cruciferous family. It grows on almost any soil. The green mass of the plant is mown when the leaves are fresh and juicy. After planting mustard, the incidence of plants with late blight, rhizoctonia, scab of tubers, etc. decreases. Also, crops of mustard reduce the number of wireworms. ➣ Siderata of the Cruciferous family cannot be alternated with cruciferous vegetables such as radishes, turnips, mustard, cabbage, etc. These plants have common diseases and pests. Oil radish is an annual plant of the Cruciferous family with a height of 1.5-2 m. You can sow radish from early spring to late autumn. A package of seeds is mixed with one glass of dry sand and scattered over the site, then harrowed. The plant has phytosanitary properties - it destroys pathogens, suppresses nematodes. The annual sunflower, or oilseed, is an annual plant of the Astrov family with a deep root system. The plant produces a lot of compost mass. It grows in any soil with a pH ranging from very acidic (pH4) to alkaline (pH8). Buckwheat is a plant of the Buckwheat family, characterized by rapid growth, enriches the soil with organic matter, phosphorus and potassium, assimilates organic phosphates well. Buckwheat is the best green manure under fruit trees and bushes. Recommended to grow in poor, heavy, acidic soils. Progenitor Plants Good progenitors are beneficial for all crops. So, cucumber, peppers, cabbage and onions, if grown in one place for 3-4 years, will reduce the yield by 30-50%. When choosing a predecessor, it is important to consider the harvest time. For example, late cabbage is harvested in October. At this time, it is already impossible to prepare the soil for carrots, early greens and other crops. The volume of products grown also plays an important role. For example, potatoes take up more space than all vegetables combined, and parsley less than tomatoes or cucumbers. This is why it is necessary to group vegetables for crop rotation so that they occupy approximately the same area. After potatoes, you can plant potatoes and other vegetables, except for peppers, tomatoes and eggplant. Potatoes can be grown after all crops. Tomato, pepper and eggplant (nightshade) should not grow in one place for more than 2 years in a row. They can be grown after any vegetable crops except cucumber, and cucumber cannot be grown after nightshades. Pumpkin seeds (pumpkin, squash, squash, melon) are good precursors for all crops except cucumber. You can grow pumpkin seeds after any crops. Cucumber is a plant that is demanding on its predecessor. It can only be grown in one place for a year. It is undesirable to sow a cucumber after pumpkin, melon, cabbage, rutabaga and tomato. In turn, the listed plants are not recommended to be planted after the cucumber. Root vegetables (carrots, beets, rutabagas, parsnips, parsley, celery, etc.), like cucumbers, should not be planted in the same place in the 2nd year. They grow well after nightshade crops, cabbage and cucumber. Any crops can be planted after root crops. The only exception is spinach, which should not be planted after beets. Cabbage (white cabbage, red cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc.), as well as radishes and radishes grow poorly after corn, cucumber and cabbage. Beans, peas, beans, and soybeans are good precursors for all vegetables. They, in turn, can also be planted after other crops. It is better not to plant onions in one place for 2 years, although they are undemanding to their predecessors. After garlic, onions, onions - shallots, you can plant any vegetable crops. Lettuce, dill, artichoke, chicory and other greens can grow after any predecessors.
Curly pie with any favorite jam Ingredients: Two chicken eggs 3 tbsp. flour 200 gr. margarine or butter 1 tbsp. sugar A little vanillin on the tip of a knife 1 tsp baking powder for dough 200 gr. jam Preparation: 1. Melt and cool the butter. We put the oven to warm up to 200 degrees. Pour sugar into a bowl, pour melted butter, vanillin to it, break eggs and mix everything thoroughly. 2. Mix wheat flour with baking powder and begin to gradually introduce it into the mass obtained in a bowl. Knead the tough dough and divide it into two unequal parts. Put the part that will be a little for an hour in the freezer. 3. Spread the second part evenly on a baking sheet and on top - a layer of jam. We level it gently with a spoon. After that, we take out the second part of the dough from the freezer and rub it through a coarse grater onto the jam. We put the baking sheet in the oven for 20 minutes. After the lapse of time, we take out the shortbread cake from the oven and serve warm to the table. Enjoy your meal!
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Classes 700
I love you, birdie. - And I you, giant! - I love you, bird. - And I you, giant!
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Classes 7.6K
Pickled pepper. A reliable recipe! Pepper - 2 kg For the marinade: Input - 1 liter Sugar - 1.5 cups 9% vinegar - 1.5 cups Vegetable oil - 1 cup Salt - 2 tbsp. l. Black peppercorns to taste. Wash the pepper, remove the stalks and seeds, cut into quarters. Prepare a hot marinade. Put the pepper in the marinade, bring to a boil over medium heat, cook for 5 minutes. Transfer the pepper to sterilized jars. Bring the marinade to a boil. Pour the marinade over the jars. Roll up, turn over, wrap up, leave to cool completely.
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Classes 3.5K
PREPARATION IVAN - TEA Save so as not to lose! HOW TO PREPARE MIRACLE TEA: 1. So, we collect the upper part of the plant, together with the leaves and flowers - they easily break off, in 5-10 minutes you can collect a hefty armful. 2. Further, we leave for 12-20 hours (but not more than 24!) In the shade, in a dry place, so that they slightly wither. The main thing is not to overdry! There must be enough juice left in the plants for fermentation. Also, it is better to wither the whole twigs, rather than individual leaves. 3. Then we cut off the leaves and flowers from the branches. 4. Rub the leaves and flowers between the palms, with an effort so that the cells burst and the fermentation process begins. Leaves let out juice and darken. We put it tightly in an enamel or ceramic dish with a layer of 5 cm, then press it with a fist on top, cover with a damp towel and leave for 20-24 hours for fermentation at a temperature of 25-27 degrees. You can control the fermentation process by smell, when the process is completed, instead of the usual herbal smell, a very pleasant, candy smell appears. 5. We put a layer of the finished mass on a baking sheet and dry in the oven at a temperature of 100-150 degrees, about 40 minutes, sometimes more. Stir regularly. When finished, dried tea turns dark brown to black. Leave it for a while to allow the residual moisture to evaporate and pour it into storage containers. Koporsky tea is ready! Enjoy your tea!
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Classes 2.9K
CUCUMBER SNACK ROLLS FOR WINTER There are still large, overgrown cucumbers and do not know what to do with them? Grab a cool recipe, filled gherkins! A very original, bright appetizer! Ingredients: Cucumbers - 2 kg Dill (greens) - 100 g Bulgarian pepper - 4 pcs. Chili pepper - 2 pcs. For brine: Mustard seeds - 2-4 tbsp Sugar - 200 g Salt - 100 g Garlic - 2 heads Apple cider vinegar - 100 ml Water - 1 l 📝How to cook: 1. Cucumbers must be washed. If desired, you can peel. Cut into longitudinal plates with a vegetable peeler. 2. Rinse the herbs, dry well and chop finely. Peel the garlic and cut into thin slices, peel the chili pepper and cut into rings. 3. Put herbs, chili and garlic in a jar. 4. After that, roll the cucumbers into a roll, putting in each piece of bell pepper. 5. Prepare the brine. To do this, add all the ingredients for the brine to the water, boil. Add vinegar before turning off the heat. 6. In a prepared and sterilized jar on top of the herbs, fold the cucumber rolls, pour hot brine and roll up the jar. Store in a cool and dark place. Enjoy your meal!
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Classes 1.7K
Strawberries are fed three times a year 1) In early spring, after trimming the leaves, strawberries are fed with a complex mineral fertilizer (nitroammophos - 1 tbsp. L. Per 10 liters of water) or organic fertilizer (infusion of mullein diluted with water 1:10, or chicken manure - 1: 12). Strawberries are fertilized at the root using 0.5 liters of solution under each bush. 2) During the period of budding and ripening of fruits, strawberries require more potassium, so potassium nitrate, ash or infusion of chicken manure can be used for feeding. Spraying strawberries with trace elements during flowering and growth of ovaries significantly increases its yield (10 liters of water - a pinch of boric acid). 3) After harvesting and trimming old leaves, they are fed with a complex mineral or organic fertilizer (2 tablespoons of nitroammofoska, 1 glass of ash per 10 liters of water). Feeding strawberries in August with urea (30 g per 10 liters of water) promotes the establishment and growth of flower buds, which will increase the next year's harvest. Good luck in the country!
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Classes 3.8K
The currants need to be constantly rejuvenated - and a big harvest is guaranteed for you The old currant grows: a large bush, and a mug of berries And to get a large harvest, currants need to be constantly rejuvenated Currants need to be constantly rejuvenated - and you are guaranteed a large harvest Most berry plants do not require very close attention. But there are two types among them that need constant care. These are strawberries and currants. Summer residents, as a rule, devote quite a lot of time to the first: they plant, water, fertilize, mulch the beds, renew the plantation. But currants are most often forgotten for many decades. And then they are surprised: why the bush gives only a mug of berries, while it is really possible to collect half a bucket from it. Most interestingly, many gardeners attribute the poor harvest to an unfavorable summer or harsh winter. Meanwhile, the problem is leaving. In order for black currant to bear fruit well, the bush must be constantly updated! CUT OLD BRANCHES Most currant berries ripen in the center of the shoots. In this zone, the main number of fruit branches is located, but they bear fruit for a short time, only 2-3 years. And after 6-7 years, the harvest dwindles altogether. That is why the bush must be rejuvenated annually. When pruning, 2-3 new shoots are left. Everyone over 5 years old is cut flush with the ground. With this formation in the currant bush there will always be up to 10-15 branches of different ages. PREPARE A REPLACEMENT Some summer residents can find currant bushes on the site that are 20, 30 and even 40 years old! Probably, they can be grown as a memory of ancestors, but you can hardly wait for a harvest from such relics. And if the berries are more important to you, then the bush should not be kept longer than 10 years - after this period it is better to uproot it. And they begin to prepare a replacement for aging plants after 7–8 years. The easiest way to propagate black currants is by layering. To begin with, the soil is loosened near the bush. Then grooves are made 5 cm deep, strong branches are bent in them, pinned with wire and sprinkled with earth. When young growths reach 15 cm, they need to be covered with humus or loose soil. By autumn, young shoots of cuttings form a mass of roots. Then they can be cut off with a pruner from the mother bush, dug out with a clod of earth and planted in a permanent place. They often write in books: currants can be propagated by dividing the bush. And gardeners willingly use this advice - it is a pity to throw out the uprooted bush. After all, several new ones will come out of it. However, this method is not the best: there are really more plants, but their quality leaves much to be desired. In addition, diseases and pests accumulate in the mother bushes, and when they are divided, they are inherited. It is best to plant young plants in the fall. And in order for the new bush to grow powerful and give a good harvest, the seedlings must be buried obliquely, deepening by 6–8 cm. In this case, additional roots are formed, and more renewal shoots appear. THE SECRET OF SUCCESS Currants are best planted not in the open sun, but in partial shade, Then the berries grow much larger!