The main mistakes of summer residents. The soil

Classical garden literature has presented us from decade to decade for half a century already 30% of not very well-considered actions in various areas, on the fight against which we spend the remaining 70% of our energy, health and money. Errors in fertility - the soil in the garden is just digging. Many take on thirty to fifty acres, eco-settlers take on a hectare of land. The average gardener takes a tractor and plows the ground. For example, on the Volga, soft soddy chernozems, you can afford it, but where there is humus one and a half meters, on all other soils, on heavy and poorer soils, this is absolutely thoughtless. This is the kind of work that forces you to struggle with this work the rest of the summer.

In the beautiful soddy meadow soil, canals, kilometers of worm and root passages are usually visible, humus from above, which is formed as a result of eating residual organic matter. In this part of the soil, the subsoil will be more permeable. If you add a layer of leaf organic matter to the top layer of the earth 15-20 cm and dig up the soil, then the layer neatly lays down and forms a kind of "pillow" of plant residues, which will decompose over the years, because there is no oxygen and the corresponding microflora in the soil. It does not allow the roots to break down as expected while it decomposes, it does not allow the capillary soil to rise upward. Every effort must be made to eliminate this compacted layer at a depth of 40-45 cm, otherwise we will not get a good start, even if we apply organic mulch all the time.

Soil in the garden: technology for creating ideal soil

If your garden is located on the site of the former fields, then it is imperative to dig out 40 cm of the upper layer, you can even make stationary beds deeper, add a layer of sand 6-7 cm, humus and then dig the lower layer another 15-20 cm. After that , again a layer of sand and humus is placed on the excavated ground. It is imperative to make this dramatic improvement on bad soil. Further, the process of exploitation of the land begins, you can add worms there, add microbial preparations and not dig anything else. The soil must be loosened by living organisms. First of all, plants, they are called siderates, green fertilizers, those plants that are grown for subsequent embedding in the soil to improve its structure, enrichment with nitrogen and suppress the growth of weeds. They must be sown at least once a year, preferably in spring.

In the soil, the main fertile mission is not carried out by organic matter itself, it does not create fertility. If manure, straw or unripe compost is poured into the soil, then the soil-microbial system will receive a huge shift and stress. For another year and a half, the soil will try to adapt to the new organic matter. Fertility is created by a balanced, well-established soil-microbial system. The more diverse it is, the more flexible it reacts to stress, drought, or partial digging of potatoes during harvest, or the addition of organic matter. The more different plants grow in the garden over the summer, the more diverse microflora will form its stable microbial system.

Each plant has its own personal microflora in the rhizrosphere - the microflora that surrounds the roots. The more plants there are, the better the soil microbiocenosis, the microbial ecosystem will be insured for all occasions.