Is it possible to feed yourself from your garden: personal experience. Options for placing vegetables in the garden
Fig, fig, fig tree - these are all names of the same plant, which we strongly associate with Mediterranean life. Anyone who has ever tasted fig fruits knows how delicious they are. But, in addition to their delicate sweet taste, they are also very beneficial for health. And here’s an interesting detail: it turns out that figs are a completely unpretentious plant. In addition, it can be successfully grown on a plot in middle lane or in the house - in a container.
Quite often, difficulties in growing tomato seedlings arise even for experienced summer residents. For some, all the seedlings turn out to be elongated and weak, for others, they suddenly begin to fall and die. The thing is that it is difficult to maintain in an apartment ideal conditions for growing seedlings. Seedlings of any plants need to be provided with plenty of light, sufficient humidity and optimal temperature. What else do you need to know and observe when growing tomato seedlings in an apartment?
Delicious vinaigrette with apple and sauerkraut - a vegetarian salad made from boiled and chilled, raw, pickled, salted, pickled vegetables and fruits. The name comes from the French vinegar sauce, olive oil and mustard (vinaigrette). Vinaigrette appeared in Russian cuisine not so long ago, around the beginning of the 19th century; perhaps the recipe was borrowed from Austrian or German cuisine, since the ingredients for Austrian herring salad are very similar.
When we dreamily sort through bright packets of seeds in our hands, we are sometimes subconsciously convinced that we have a prototype of a future plant. We mentally allocate a place for it in the flower garden and look forward to the cherished day of the appearance of the first bud. However, buying seeds does not always guarantee that you will eventually get the desired flower. I would like to draw attention to the reasons why seeds may not sprout or die at the very beginning of germination.
Spring is coming, and gardeners have more work to do, and with the onset of warmer weather, changes in the garden occur rapidly. The buds are already beginning to swell on plants that were still dormant yesterday, and everything is literally coming to life before our eyes. After a long winter, this is good news. But along with the garden, its problems come to life - insect pests and pathogens. Weevils, flower beetles, aphids, clasterosporiosis, maniliosis, scab, powdery mildew- the list could take a very long time.
Breakfast toast with avocado and egg salad is a great start to the day. The egg salad in this recipe acts as a thick sauce that is seasoned with fresh vegetables and shrimp. My egg salad Quite unusual, this is a dietary version of everyone’s favorite snack - with Feta cheese, Greek yogurt and red caviar. If you have time in the morning, never deny yourself the pleasure of cooking something tasty and healthy. The day needs to start with positive emotions!
Perhaps every woman has at least once received a gift blooming orchid. It’s not surprising, because such a living bouquet looks amazing and blooms for a long time. Orchids are not very difficult to grow. indoor crops, but failure to comply with the main conditions for their maintenance often leads to the loss of a flower. If you are just getting started with indoor orchids, you should find out the correct answers to the main questions about growing these beautiful plants in the house.
Lush cheesecakes with poppy seeds and raisins prepared according to this recipe are eaten in no time in my family. Moderately sweet, plump, tender, with an appetizing crust, without excess oil, in a word, exactly the same as my mother or grandmother fried in childhood. If the raisins are very sweet, then you don’t need to add granulated sugar at all; without sugar, the cheesecakes will be better fried and will never burn. Cook them in a well-heated frying pan, greased with oil, over low heat and without a lid!
Cherry tomatoes differ from their larger counterparts not only in the small size of their berries. Many cherry varieties are characterized by a unique sweet taste, which is very different from the classic tomato taste. Anyone who has never tried such cherry tomatoes with their eyes closed may well decide that they are tasting some unusual Exotic fruits. In this article I will talk about five different cherry tomatoes that have the sweetest fruits with unusual colors.
I started growing annual flowers in the garden and on the balcony more than 20 years ago, but I will never forget my first petunia, which I planted in the country along the path. Only a couple of decades have passed, but you’re amazed at how different the petunias of the past are from the many-sided hybrids of today! In this article, I propose to trace the history of the transformation of this flower from a simpleton into a real queen of annuals, as well as consider modern varieties of unusual colors.
Salad with spicy chicken, mushrooms, cheese and grapes - aromatic and satisfying. This dish can be served as a main dish if you are preparing a cold dinner. Cheese, nuts, mayonnaise are high-calorie foods; in combination with spicy fried chicken and mushrooms, you get a very nutritious snack, which is refreshed by sweet and sour grapes. The chicken in this recipe is marinated in a spicy mixture of ground cinnamon, turmeric and chili powder. If you like food with fire, use hot chili.
The question is how to grow healthy seedlings, all summer residents are concerned in early spring. It seems that there are no secrets here - the main thing for fast and strong seedlings is to provide them with warmth, moisture and light. But in practice, in a city apartment or private house, this is not so easy to do. Of course, every experienced gardener has his own proven method of growing seedlings. But today we will talk about a relatively new assistant in this matter - the propagator.
The Sanka tomato variety is one of the most popular in Russia. Why? The answer is simple. He is the very first to bear fruit in the garden. Tomatoes ripen when other varieties have not even bloomed yet. Of course, if you follow the growing recommendations and make an effort, even a novice grower will receive a rich harvest and joy from the process. And so that your efforts are not in vain, we advise you to plant high-quality seeds. For example, such as seeds from TM “Agrosuccess”.
Task indoor plants in the house - to decorate the home with your own appearance, to create a special atmosphere of comfort. For this reason, we are ready to take care of them regularly. Care is not only about watering on time, although this is important. It is also necessary to create other conditions: suitable lighting, humidity and air temperature, and make a correct and timely transplant. For experienced flower growers there is nothing supernatural about this. But beginners often face certain difficulties.
It’s easy to prepare tender chicken breast cutlets with champignons according to this recipe with step by step photos. There is an opinion that it is difficult to make juicy and tender cutlets from chicken breast, but this is not so! Chicken meat contains virtually no fat, which is why it is a bit dry. But if you add cream to the chicken fillet, White bread and mushrooms with onions, you will get amazingly delicious cutlets that both children and adults will love. During mushroom season, try adding wild mushrooms to the minced meat.
Regarding the fight against ants. Previously, I used whatever chemicals I used - if there was any result, it was short-lived and not very convincing. Last season I tried a simple and safe remedy- concentrated liquid for smoking! Yes, the same one that many people use for cooking! You just need to find a natural one, not an artificial one. Added 100 ml of concentrate and 100 ml of green to an 8 liter sprayer liquid soap, added water and mixed it all well. I treated currants and trees and the ground around them with this solution. The result was simply stunning! No ants, no aphids and the currants are simply beautiful - green, lush without any distortions on the upper branches! And note - no chemicals!
Andrey
07.02.2018
Mole control (20)
Quote: dachnik
Amazing carnivores eat weeds, yes you are a modern Lysenkov
dachnik
07.11.2017
Mole control (20)
Regarding moles, there is a theory that they appear only on soil infested with weeds, that is, where there is food all year round and not seasonally (the second half of summer - early autumn. Accordingly, fighting them is fighting weeds.
Daria
01.07.2017
How to make a lawn at your dacha... (1)
A great article about arranging a lawn on your property! I also have grass at my dacha, but I sowed it myself, and my neighbors recommended an excellent website for laying lawns. The grass is bright green, rich in color, not dry. No hassle about seeding the grass, I just cut it with a lawnmower and water it.
Vania
18.06.2017
Beans (secrets and tips for growing... (2)
Plant beans and peas by adding corn or sunflowers to the hole, they are along the stem
will curl. You will really like it. Say "thank you"!
Hello to all gardeners! If you plant something, maybe something will grow
or it won’t grow, and if you don’t plant anything, the result is clear.
Guess which one. ??????????
Eugene
01.03.2017
Mole control (20)
Over the years I have tested the operation of all these traps, noise makers, including electronic ones, and was convinced of their uselessness. Saves for a certain time ( two weeks, and then and more) only a short-term blowing of smoke by a fan through one of the passages until a trickle appears at the far end of the section. Out of ten craftsmen among summer residents, making a fan-smoke is easy. When the moles return, I repeat the procedure. Another environmentally friendly means of mole control is my cat Alex. During the season he brings to the porch at least a dozen killed moles and shrews, how many he actually gets is unknown...
An ordinary vegetable garden is an amazing place, a special plot of land, which, through the efforts of its owners, turns into an almost inexhaustible source of not only vitamins and fresh vegetables, but also a whole series of “by-products” - health, excellent well-being and vigor.
According to experienced summer residents, working in your own garden successfully replaces working out in the gym and brings a lot of pleasure and benefit. In addition, vegetables grown on your own plot differ in taste qualities from those bought in a store or at the market, and, of course, for the better.
Spring work on plot of land start with an important task - planning a vegetable garden. It would seem that my plot, I plant whatever I want, and the choice is not too great - on the standard six hundred square meters you won’t be able to do much. And yet, the harvest largely depends on the choice of place for a certain variety of vegetables, so planning a garden should be approached with all responsibility.
What factors should you pay attention to when planning your garden? What vegetables are best to plant and where?
Working in the garden is not necessarily hard work and daily hassle. Gardening brings a lot of pleasure and benefits
Planning your garden correctly
So, you have already prepared the seeds and even grown seedlings at home. All that remains is to decide where exactly to plant all the plants by choosing optimal place on your site for certain types of vegetables. You can start planning your garden in early spring, when the snow has completely melted from the site and the soil has dried well.
In general, plot planning, which is carried out by a summer resident with many years of experience in gardening, looks like this - the owner simply walks along already equipped paths, leaving sticks and pegs in the ground and muttering to himself: “Here are two beds of peppers,” “And here there will be tomatoes.” . In fact, this simple approach to planning a garden allows summer residents only many years of experience work on the site. Less for experienced gardeners It’s worth listening to the advice of professionals and approaching the process of planning vegetable planting scientifically.
An ideal vegetable garden looks like this - even rows of green, healthy plants that promise a high yield.
If you decide to plant a vegetable garden on a newly acquired plot of land for the first time, you will have to take into account several main factors:
- Sides of the world. Experts advise laying out beds for future plantings strictly in length from north to south or from northeast to southwest. This way the plantings will be warmed up and illuminated by the sun’s rays as evenly as possible throughout the day. It has been proven that with this arrangement of beds, plants are less susceptible to fungal diseases. The southern, slightly warmer and better lit side should be given to heat-loving crops such as beans, tomatoes and cucumbers, and the northern side to cold-resistant crops - radishes, turnips and rutabaga. To protect plants from cold winds, it is better to plant dense rows of corn, sunflowers or berry bushes, for example, gooseberries or currants.
- Soil composition. If vegetable crops are planted in this area for the first time, it is necessary to study the composition of the soil. If the soil is clayey, you will need to first add straw manure, sand, compost, sod land And mineral fertilizers. If the soil is sandy, then ideal additives would be peat, manure and mineral fertilizers. When increased acidity soil, it is necessary to add lime additives - quicklime or slaked lime, and wood ash. Of course, all of the above additives can be applied in the fall, but experts call the optimal period for adjusting the composition of the soil early spring- about a month before planting seedlings and seeds.
- Illumination. The illumination of the area can only be influenced by cutting down existing trees. It is strictly not recommended to plant seedlings under the lush crowns of apple or pear trees. Trees can only grow on the northern side of the garden - this way they will not cover the plants from the sun's rays and at the same time protect them from the cold wind. If there is a free piece of land on the north side of the house, it is better to plant there unpretentious plants, for example, sorrel or onions, for which excess sun is even harmful. Tomatoes or cucumbers will definitely wither in the shade. It’s even better to give up such a northern front garden for flowers, since growing vegetables here is quite risky.
- Relief of the site. If the site has an uneven topography, then in the spring the soil in the lowlands will thaw and dry out much longer than the soil at higher elevations. Besides, in heavy rain There will be water standing in such areas. That is, it is necessary to take care of a system of drainage grooves that will help get rid of excess moisture. In such low-lying places, professionals advise planting cabbage and other moisture-loving plants. But, if in your region summers are usually dry and hot, then you can plant both tomatoes and peppers in low-lying areas - in this case, you will have to water the seedlings a little less often.
If in the area where you plan to plant a vegetable garden, previously only weeds grew and there was an ordinary lawn, the owners have two options: remove upper layer completely remove the soil with weed roots from the site and add peat, rotted manure and, if necessary, sand to the soil; or simply dig up the area and plant potatoes here in the first year. The first option is too labor-intensive and expensive, so it is not popular among gardeners. In the second case, in the first year the potato harvest will be low, but most of the weeds will disappear and the next season you can plant any, even the most finicky vegetables.
When starting to plan a vegetable garden for the first time, it is worth taking into account the characteristics of the soil and the location of the beds relative to the cardinal directions.
Irrigation system
When planning a vegetable garden, you need to pay attention Special attention irrigation system. Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and eggplants in central regions With a fairly dry summer, you have to water regularly - literally every three to four days. Therefore, for vegetables, it is better to choose areas that can be watered without special costs and problems.
The minimum program is that hoses from an outdoor tap must reach the beds. If your plot of land is too large, and the tap is located next to the house, then in remote areas it is better to lay out a garden or plant especially resistant plants that do not need additional watering. In this case, it is better to move the garden closer to the water source.
Remember that experts do not recommend watering the beds with water directly from the tap. The best option- already settled water, warmed up in the sun, or even better - collected rainwater, or water from a local pond or river. If you want to listen to the advice of professionals, you will need to install a large enough container next to the beds for water - rainwater or regular water from the tap. Even an old cast iron or steel bath, capacious, specially ordered metal vat or large plastic barrel. In addition, you will also need a water pump, which will lower into the container and provide excellent pressure when watering. You can, of course, water the beds with a watering can, but this is too long a process.
Another great option for an irrigation system is drip irrigation. If your site already has such a system, then the planting of vegetables will have to be “tied” precisely to the plots already provided with water.
Don’t want to spend a lot of time watering vegetables manually with a watering can or stand for hours in the garden with a hose in your hands? Take care of the system drip irrigation, which will save both time and money on paying for water supply
Every vegetable has its place
Have you figured out the cardinal directions, lighting and watering? All that remains is to find out all the nuances regarding the compatibility of individual varieties of vegetables and their rotation in your garden. Every experienced summer resident knows that if last year, for example, potatoes grew in this area, then this year it is worth planting some other vegetables.
Thus, all vegetable crops are usually divided into:
- Demanding people who need a large number of nutrients. These include cabbage, zucchini, cucumber, pumpkin, tomatoes, peppers and celery.
- Moderately demanding. Such vegetables need fertilizing only once a year, unlike demanding ones, which have to be “fed” both in spring and autumn. These vegetables include: eggplant, onions, potatoes, carrots, beets, radishes, lettuce, kohlrabi and garlic.
- Undemanding. Crops that cost the bare minimum useful substances. These are peas, beans, parsley, dill, sage, basil and other seasonings.
In order to correctly draw up a plan for planting seeds and seedlings, the garden should be divided into four sections:
- Select one for perennial plants, for example, strawberries and wild strawberries, which will have to be replanted no more often than once every three to four years.
- The second area is allocated for demanding plants.
- The third is for medium-demanding crops.
- And the fourth, of course, for undemanding plants.
After a year, particularly fastidious plants need to be planted in the area where undemanding plants grew, moderately demanding ones - in a plot where the crop of demanding ones has already been harvested, and undemanding plants, accordingly, are sent to the area where averagely demanding cultivated plants grew last year.
This rotation is carried out every year and allows the soil to rest a little and get a higher yield.
Requirements for different levels nutrients plants must be alternated with each other when planting a vegetable garden
In addition, when planning the location of the beds, it is necessary to take into account the compatibility of plants. The compatibility of cultures lies in the ability to grow side by side, strengthening, complementing and protecting each other.
So, it is quite possible to sow onions, garlic or radishes between the rows of tomatoes. An ideal “seal” for carrots or beets would be dill or lettuce. And rows of potatoes can be combined with planting peas, which will be harvested earlier and “provide” their roots as an excellent fertilizer for potato tubers.
Experts say that the ideal predecessors for cabbage are nightshades, that is, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers or eggplants, as well as cucumbers, legumes or onions.
In turn, it is better to plant cucumber seedlings in the place where peppers or spinach grew last year. The optimal predecessors for carrots and beets are cucumbers, tomatoes and peas.
Another important point — different period ripening and planting of plants allows you to get two harvests on one plot different cultures. For example, in early spring you can sow onions or radishes, and after harvesting, plant them in this plot melons or tomatoes. After the garlic or onion has already been harvested, winter radish or lettuce will do well in this area.
Plant compatibility is an important factor when planning a vegetable garden.
Bed sizes
When planning your garden, do not forget about comfortable paths at least 30-40 centimeters wide, which will allow you to harvest tomatoes and peppers without harming flowering and fruit-bearing plants.
The optimal width of the bed is 80-100 centimeters. If the bed is wider, it will make caring for plants and watering more difficult.
If you lay not just dirt paths between the beds, but real paths made of stone or boards, then you can harvest even on the rainiest day or immediately after heavy watering, without fear of getting your shoes dirty
In addition, do not forget that cucumbers grow better, bear fruit and take up much more space. less space, if you provide them with support on which they can curl. In this case, picking cucumbers will be much more convenient. Some tomato varieties, such as the tiny, delicious cherry tomatoes, also need support. Therefore, when planning beds with such tall and fragile crops, you need to take care of a fence or trellis on which cucumbers and tall seedlings tomatoes will be able to lean.
Tall tomato shoots need support, and cucumbers creeping along the ground will take up too much space. Plant them near the hedge and collect bountiful harvest It will be much more pleasant, and most importantly - easier!
And finally two more important points- firstly, in the garden you also need to leave space for a compost heap, where you will throw away the remains of shoots and leaves in the fall, which will become excellent in the future organic fertilizer. Compost pile can be located at the very end of the site, in the shade, that is, in a place that, due to its properties, is not suitable for planting useful plants.
Secondly, most likely you will be building a greenhouse or greenhouse for early vegetables and seedlings. For such a structure it is also necessary to allocate appropriate place in the sun.
Approach planning your garden thoughtfully and seriously, try to place crops with good compatibility nearby, alternate different families of vegetables in the same area, try to plant both early and early vegetables in the same bed. late varieties vegetables to get two harvests a year - and even a small garden will provide your whole family with fresh herbs during the warm season, and the pantry in the fall will be filled with jars of home-made preserves.
And greens grown in greenhouses include cucumbers, peppers and many other very common vegetable crops.
Of course, it’s good to have your own harvest, but all these vegetables can be bought at the market or in a store. Moreover, during the season it can be even cheaper than weekly trips to the country. Therefore, from time to time, at least for the sake of interest, it is worth trying to plant not only new varieties, but also unusual ones that have not yet been tried rare crops. Let's give brief descriptions rare vegetable crops, which can be grown at your own dacha.
Pepino or melon pear is a shrub from the nightshade family.. Its fruits are the size of a goose egg with creamy or pale yellow flesh and taste and aroma somewhere between a pumpkin, melon and cucumber.
This perennial, however, in conditions temperate climate it is grown seedling method as an annual. You can also keep one plant at home and propagate it every year from cuttings.
The harvest, collected at the end of summer, is stored for about 4 months in the cellar. Pepino can be dried, dried, candied, frozen and canned, as well as compotes and sauces made from it. IN fresh it is added to vegetable or fruit salads.
Despite the fact that our climate does not spoil gardeners with early warmth, some of them still manage to harvest crops in their dachas as soon as the snow melts from the soil. But to achieve this you need to know well how to properly grow the earliest vegetables in your garden at the dacha. This is what we want to talk about today.
For this they use special technology sowing Of course, not everyone is suitable for such sowing. garden crops, but only the most cold-resistant ones - watercress or mustard.
The peculiarity of these plants is that they very quickly reach a developmental stage in which they can be used as food. This happens already 15-20 days after the appearance of the first shoots. Therefore, after harvesting watercress or mustard, the vacated beds can be used for planting other crops.
Watercress has several other features. Firstly, it is very unpretentious, one might even say ascetic, therefore it does not take root well in soil that is overly fertilized.
At the same time, it needs a large amount of sunlight and moisture, so the planting site should be chosen in a well-lit place and the beds should be watered regularly.
You can plant watercress in open ground in your garden as early as early April. In this case, be sure to cover the crops with polymer film. If you do not want to get involved with the film shelter device, you will have to wait until the end of the month.
Preferred planting scheme: 3-5 plants per 10-15 cm of bed. When using the double-line tape method (with intervals between lines up to 20 cm, between tapes up to 50 cm), seed consumption per square meter. m. is approximately 1.5-2 g. It is not recommended to bury the seeds.
Shoots appear already 2-4 days after sowing. While the seedlings are not strong enough, the planting needs to be thinned out, removing weaker, underdeveloped shoots.
We recommend thinning the plants in such a way that in the end there is a distance of 8-10 cm between adjacent sprouts. Only with such density will the watercress shoots develop normally, as a result of which a large rosette should form.
Watercress is removed from the garden at the moment when the plant has a large stem and begins to grow. At this stage of its development, watercress begins to lose beneficial features, so you shouldn’t delay cleaning - you need to start it as soon as two or three full-fledged leaves appear. This usually happens 10-12 days after germination.
Keep harvested possible up to 15 days. To do this, the greens are not cut, but pulled out of the ground and, after removing the dirt, placed in plastic bags. To prevent the watercress from wilting too quickly, it should be lightly sprinkled with water before laying. Store bags in the refrigerator.
Salad mustard is even more cold-resistant than watercress. It is able to grow even at temperatures slightly above 0 degrees. Therefore, mustard can be planted under film even at the end of March, and when planting in early April, you can completely abandon the film cover. Moreover, this plant is exclusively early appearance, since in summer heat conditions, salad mustard very quickly throws out the stem and becomes unfit for consumption.
The technology for sowing and growing salad mustard is not much different from the techniques used when growing watercress. However, there is still a slight difference, since mustard seedlings are more responsive to soil fertilization and nutritional supplements. Otherwise, everything is done the same.
How to grow early vegetables at home?
The fact that watercress and salad mustard are early vegetables and are very early ripening crops and at the same time unpretentious, which allows them to be grown not only in open ground in the garden at the dacha or in the garden, but also in a city apartment, on an ordinary window sill. To do this, use shallow boxes, the bottom of which is filled with thin layer soil - no more than 7 cm.
Seeds are sown densely - per 1 sq.m. 15-20 g watercress or 30 g salad mustard. Until the seeds germinate, the boxes should be kept in a dark place and only then transferred to the windowsill, not forgetting to cover them with glass. Care consists of regularly moistening the soil.
Watercress is ready for harvesting after 10 days, salad mustard a week later, when its shoots reach a height of 5-8 cm. The watercress is pulled out and the mustard is cut off with scissors.