Crops that cannot be hilled when growing

Hilling is not recommended for growing the following crops: growing onions and garlic; plants belonging to the section "greens", celery, sorrel and spinach, Swiss chard, cucumbers, tomatoes.

You can not huddle and greens: lettuce, parsley, dill, lemon balm, fennel, wild garlic, cucumber grass

Radishes, radishes, beets, turnips do not react in any way to hilling.

Although hilling is used to accelerate the formation of the ovary, as well as to protect plants from frost, pests, and various diseases, and for the above types of crops, hilling is harmful. Plants may die.

What harm does hilling greenery bring

Hilling greenery, that is, shoveling the earth to the plant, contributes to the appearance of rot. And this disease leads to the complete destruction of the plant.

Instead of hilling, a simple loosening of the soil near the plants is done with the removal of weeds. After loosening, cover the soil with mulch, straw, sawdust.

The harm of hilling for onions and garlic

The harm lies in the fact that the dusty earth for growing onions and garlic blocks the sunlight. Plants may die. Instead, loosening, mulching, weeding should be applied.

Loosening retains moisture in the soil and allows air and sunlight to penetrate the root system. Loosening should be done more often after watering the plants.

The harmful effect of hilling on the planting of cucumbers and celery.

Hilling cucumbers should be abandoned altogether or be done very carefully. When hilling cucumbers, you can damage the roots of plants, since they are close to the ground. The plant may die.

In celery, raking wet soil to the stems promotes the development of rot and, accordingly, leads to the death of the plant.

The hilling procedure can be replaced by loosening followed by mulching.

Correct loosening

When loosening, you should strictly adhere to the following rules:

In cucumbers, loosening is carried out only after the appearance of three or four leaves. You can loosen up to ten centimeters in depth. Frequency of loosening until the ground is completely covered with cucumber lashes.

For other crops, loosening should be done only after thinning the seedlings. The loosening depth should not exceed three centimeters.

When loosening, humus can be used, which will make it possible to increase the supply of nutrients to the roots of plants.