Very important, planning kitchen garden, when landing vegetable cultures to consider their compatibility with each other. And in the next years, at adjustment of crop rotation, it is necessary not to forget also about predecessors who grew on beds earlier.
It is required to you
- - site;
- - sheet of paper;
- - handle;
- - plan of expected landings and their quantity.
Instruction
1. It is better to plan kitchen garden since fall. The crop is reaped, the site is cleaned, the soil is dug over, organic fertilizers are introduced. It is a high time to take the sheet of paper and to mark where what cultures will grow next year. Be at one, considering the available experience, to correct errors and defects of last year.
2. Vegetables it is not obligatory at all and it is even undesirable to put strictly on individual beds. Combinations from several cultures land on the mixed bed. It not only is convenient in the savings plan of the place, but also it is useful for plants which act for each other as protection against wreckers.
3. Garlic frightens off slugs, tick, medvedka, nematodes therefore it is often planted in the company with salads and other most gentle plants. Salad and spinach protect "neighbors" from earth midges, tomatoes save cabbage from the cabbage white butterfly, and the onions planted near carrots will help to get rid of carrot fly. Haricot and peas "are not on friendly terms" with onions garlic, as well as cabbage with beet. Cucumbers and white cabbage remarkably adjoin to fennel and salad, and carrots – to onions and garlic, garden radish and salad.
4. For the correct organization of crop rotation it is also necessary to know what cultures in the best way pave the way for the subsequent landings. On ridges where potatoes, peas and onions grew, cabbage will perfectly grow. After bean, cucumbers and onions soil will be the most suitable for eggplants, pepper and tomatoes. Cucumbers will remarkably fructify after bean, peas and corn.
5. The best quality of onions can be received, landing it after peas, potatoes, tomatoes. After cucumbers, squash, cabbage and potatoes, carrots and beet will be especially fruitful. On ridges where onions, cabbage, cucumbers or haricot grew, it is possible to wait for generous harvest of early potatoes.
6. Good harvest – subject of lawful pride of any vegetable grower. But the kitchen garden is, first of all, source of joy and pleasure, but not slave labor all day long. Therefore so important from the very beginning correctly and skillfully to plan landings and, considering crop rotation, to undertake implementation of the courageous plans for cultivation of magnificent harvests.