When on sites the snow begins to descend, most of gardeners immediately begin to carry out preparatory work for season. Own kitchen garden demands year-round care. Even those fans of kitchen garden who can visit only on weekends the adored fazenda can plan in advance necessary minimum of works that any minute did not vanish in vain. Then it is possible to prepare kitchen garden for new season of landings as much as possible.
Spring works in gardens
For a start not superfluous will be to check, your bushes and trees are how protected from bright sunshine. During the winter and autumn period it is necessary to provide to plants the good shelter – it will help to keep bark of healthy. For this purpose trunks wrap up with nonwoven fabrics, bushes cover with fir-tree paws. It is possible to remove the covering materials approximately in the middle of the spring, having waited for descent of snow and the termination of sharp temperature drop.
Spring works in gardens surely include cutting of trees, hairstyle of bushes. These actions are recommended to be executed before buds of trees bulk up and the movement of juice under bark will begin.
What to begin work in kitchen garden with
Primary works in kitchen garden often begin with cleaning – from beds and ridges delete the collected garbage. At detection of larvae and insects it is necessary to delete them – it will help to reduce the number of wreckers who shortly will appear on ridges.
Entering into the earth of organic fertilizers is carried out. It helps to saturate soil with nutrients that will well affect subsequently receiving harvest. Depending on condition of the soil on the site to it introduce fertilizers, humus, purchased peat or the compost prepared in advance. For heavy soils the introduction of coarse sand or gravel of crushed fines is recommended – it helps to add to soil of lightness and not to allow stagnation of moisture about roots. Add clay to friable soil longer to detain in it moisture and substances necessary for plants.
Works on lawns
If on your site there are lawns, them it is necessary to examine, comb grass by means of rake, in the presence of hollows fill them with the earth mixed with sand. The surface of lawns is leveled and strewed with fine sand. In the presence of bald spots in lawn covering on these sites place seeds.
Other actions
On beds and ridges the soil is loosened – enough depth in 5-10 cm. At traditional redigging, nutrients go deeply to the earth, and the structure of the soil is broken. When loosening soil it turns out porous, more suitable for development of plants.
At removal of protecting cover from the plants covered for the winter period it is necessary to work with care. For a start weaken binding. Then, when ambient temperature will rise a little, the dense winter shelter should be replaced. Fabric is selected more permeable for light and air – it can be agrospan, lutrasit and so on.
If on your site the whitewashing of trunks is regularly carried out, you remember that saplings do not need it. On the contrary, whitening of bark of sapling leads often to blockage of time that reduces to plant development speed.
As the earth gets warm, it will be possible to pass to other works including landing of plants and care for them, upclassing of the site.