It is impossible to hope for excellent harvest if the soil poor. One of ways to improve its structure, to enrich with organic chemistry and by that to increase fertility are crops of siderat, so-called green fertilizers, one of which is white mustard.
Mustard white is Pancake week plant of family cruciferous. The plant is very unpretentious and holodostoyko therefore to sow it it is possible to begin as soon as thaws snow. Mustard maintains even frosts to - 5 wasps. Siderat is very exacting to substrate. Best of all white mustard grows on the cultivated derno-podsolic soils which were fertilized by organic chemistry earlier. Also quite well increases green material on sandy and peat soil. If on your site the heavy loamy, sour soil or saline soils, then is the best of all to choose other green fertilizer.
Carefully pave the way under crops of mustard. Seed seeds not too seldom, but also it is not frequent, entirely or frequent rows. Close up planting stock rake on depth about 2 cm. After that condense soil that the planting stock contacted to the earth better and has begun to sprout much quicker.
The plant gives shoots already in couple of days, and in month mustard will increase green material up to 15 cm. At this time it needs to be cut by means of Fokin's subsurface cultivator or to plow cultivator. It is necessary to do it still before the plant begins to blossom. Consider that after seal of green material to the soil, it is necessary to maintain its humidity as are long processed into dry weather of siderata by worms. If there are no rains, periodically water the site with landings. That leaves have quicker begun to decay, water the cut-off tops of vegetable with one of EM-medicines that will create favorable conditions for reproduction of useful soil microorganisms and will turn mustard into nutritious microelements. Substrate will become friable, aircapacious and moisture-permeable. White mustard promotes deduction in the soil of nitrogen, interferes with its washing away. It also absorbs from soil and other useful substances, transforms them to organic form. Besides that white mustard improves structure of the soil, she also is green doctor. The plant revitalizes the soil, saves it from the wireworm, slugs, pea fir seed moth. Mustard promotes oppression of scab of potatoes and phytophthora. Mustard has one more remarkable property, it muffles growth of weeds. Therefore, after its cultivation it will be required to spend much less time for weeding. After crops of white mustard do not land on beds turnip, garden radish and cabbage as her diseases and wreckers can pass to them as these plants belong to the same family of cruciferae family.