Plants ciderates

From year to year, the crops grown in the crops give an ever-decreasing crop? Plants often get sick and grow much worse? Have pests appeared on the site? The diagnosis is obvious - the soil is tired and exhausted. Treatment may be to rest the soil, but not all gardeners are willing to wait for several years. Another way is to urgently "feed" the soil with fertilizers , which is also not an option, because you want to collect an ecologically clean crop from your site. And here the plants come to the aid of the siderates, in another way they are called - green fertilizers.

Application of ciderates

The essence of the application of siderates is that they grow on the site, automatically become an organic fertilizer, rich in nitrogen and organic substances. Cultivation of siderates provides nutrition to the soil for the favorable growth of subsequent plants. As soon as the ciderates at the dacha have gathered a green mass, they are mowed and closed in the soil, where the decay process begins.

Another option is how to use the siderates - leave them after mowing on the surface to protect the soil from weathering, excessive heating and preventing leaching of nutrients from the top layer. In addition to these basic functions, the siderates cope with the additional ones. First, they prevent the weeds from growing on the site, blocking the access of sunlight to them and preventing the development of weed roots. Secondly, the siderata plants loosen their roots with their roots, since after their death, hollow underground passages remain, this drainage provides good ventilation and increases the soil's ability to retain water.

The main types of siderates

The main types of siderates used can be divided into three categories: legumes, cruciferous and cereal.

1. Beans are valued for the property of accumulating nitrogen from the atmosphere, they include: soy, pea, beans, lupine, clover, vetch, lentils.
2. Cruciferae are distinguished by the ability to accumulate nitrogen from the lower layers of the soil and retain nutrients in the upper layer, preventing them from leaving down. These include: radish, rape, mustard .
3. The category of cereal siderates includes buckwheat, wheat, oats, rye.

It is difficult to say which ciderates are better, because the choice depends on the specific tasks for improving the soil, and also on what crops are planned to be planted on the site in the future, because it is necessary to observe a crop rotation. That is, garden crops and siderates should be representatives of different families of plants. Suppose, in the place where the cabbage will grow, the sowing of the cruciferous family is excluded.

Planting ciderata plants

The norm of seeding siderates for each particular plant is different, but in order not to get confused, one general rule can be used: 20-30% more seeds are sown as syderat than in the usual planting of the same crop. Ciderates can be planted between harvesting of one crop and planting the next one, can be sown at the end of the season for the winter with subsequent embedding in the soil in the spring, and can also grow in mixed planting between the main crops. In the case of joint growth, the siderates remain on the beds, until the main crops grow, then they are cut and left on the site. Thus, the cut greens play the role of mulch, and the roots remaining in the ground become a good food for the main plants. Choosing which syderates to sow in autumn, you need to build on the timing of planting. If there is to be an early fall landing and a bevel before the onset of winter, then we can stop on mustard, vetch, pea, lupine. If there is a late landing of the siderates after the collection of late autumn vegetables, you need to choose winter siderates, which will rise in the early spring. Most often, wheat and rye are selected from winter crops.