Hotbed – great assistance to the gardener in receiving good harvest. The warm "house" for plants protecting them during cold weather. Rationally to use possibilities of hotbed, it is necessary to make the scheme of landing.
Sequence of cultivation of cultures in hotbed
As much as possible to use each centimeter of the protected hothouse soil, in the greenhouse it is necessary to grow up not only the main cultures, but also intermediate. And successful cultivation of the main and intermediate cultures and increase in their productivity requires cultivation in the greenhouse of the correct predecessors. Also the hotbed can be used for subwinter crops.
Main cultures, intermediate and previous
Any early ripening vegetables and greens resistant to cold can become the previous cultures. It is fennel, spinach, the Beijing cabbage, garden radish and early carrots.
The main cultures which are grown up in hotbed – tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, pepper.
That the soil at the edges of beds and in row-spacings did not remain unoccupied, there it is possible to land intermediate cultures – salad and garden cress, sheet mustard, rhubarb. These cultures grow and clean up before the main cultures expand. If the greenhouse is warmed and has frost-resistant covering, in it it is possible to grow up not only vegetable, but also flower cultures all season. In the early spring in hotbed plant seedling of future vegetables which then is replaced to the open ground. Thus, there is no need to raise seedling in the apartment on windowsill. On seedling in the protected soil sow pumpkin, cabbage, beet, cucumbers, squash, one-year flower cultures. The sorrel and parsnip belong to subwinter cultures which grow up in hotbed.
Advantages of greenhouse cultivation
If in midland the cucumbers without problems can be grown up in the open ground, then thermophilic tomatoes, sweet pepper and eggplants it is preferable to plant in hotbed. In the presence of opportunity and the big area of hotbed in it it is possible to grow up all vegetable cultures. In the protected plant soil are subject to diseases less and are damaged by wreckers. In hotbed they are overcome less by weeds. The harvest ripens for two-three weeks earlier, and fructification lasts longer.
Instructions for use of hotbed
For successful cultivation of vegetables in hotbed it is necessary to follow rules of care for greenhouses. Annually late fall the earth in the greenhouse it is necessary to dig over and introduce organic fertilizers, having got rid previously of all vegetable remains. Also walls of the greenhouse and covering, especially if it constant, and it is necessary to disinfect all load-carrying structures of the greenhouse, processing lime. Plants in hotbed need to be processed for prevention gnily and fungal diseases. In hot time the covering of the greenhouse needs to be lifted and aired. Every five years it is desirable to change completely the soil in hotbed.