The weather beckons for days out. The ground is not frozen, soon, the garden can be for the winter. That is, in the case of a further advantageous weather in mid-March, but in April it will be enough as well. That’s the beauty of gardening: all in good time and as it suits you and the plants. Of course, there is a window of opportunity for planting, and every vegetable has its preferences when it is to the ground. But, fortunately, missed periods mean that you have to have a maximum of a year of patience.
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don’t disturb It needs a whole Arsenal of tools to prepare the soil for planting ready: A digging fork, a prong, or blade hoe, a shovel, a short-handled hand cultivator and a trowel. Who would like to have the ground particularly finely crumbly, takes a Kräuel. Generally, A healthy soil that the plants are well grown, where the soil has a crumb structure and is neither very clayey nor sandy is, to be a little disturbed. There’s a deep tillage does more harm than good if you.
just As counterproductive to a depth of tillage, with a strong weedy areas: This only brings dormant weed seeds to the surface, and then germinate well. In addition, it promotes the spread of vegetatively, by underground organs, such as the root, spreading is a Problem numerous of weed species such as fence winds, or goutweed, because the tillage of the hacked underground organs, from which many new unwelcome seedlings sprout. Speaking of Giersch: The young leaves are prepared in the early spring, as spinach, or Pesto, for a healthy treat. And: Steady to pick these weakens the Plant.
crops
crop beets are usually intended for annual crops. If in-between life of perennial herbs like sage or rosemary, the better it is for the Regulation of purely made of organic substances and mixed with each other. The herbs around the bottom is edit. But first, must, if present, the rest of the winter vegetables are harvested, typically the roses and spring cabbage, leeks and corn salad. The leaves of the rose Kohls are just as tasty as the florets. Anyway, lots of vegetables, the whole Plant can be eaten. Of course, this applies only to vegetables without the poisonous organs. The consumption of leaves or flowers of the nightshade family (potatoes, eggplant), it is imperative to refrain, they are highly toxic.
Crushed crop residues can be left in the ground, the Same is true for the organic garden is almost obligatory winter green manure: This is chopped up into finger-long pieces and superficially incorporated into the soil. After two to three weeks, the green mass has disappeared, i.e. from the soil organisms and used in nutrients converted. Depending on the root depth of the green manure also has a soil loosening effect.
a Maximum of one scoop of compost per square metre
If the floor had to be naked for the winter, a loosening with the digging fork: This in short intervals into the ground to push the handle back and forth, should not move the floor circulating. The “Digging” is a persistent garden myth, and for the soil organisms profoundly confusing. The knowledge, in which the bottom layer is your home, and want to stay there. After easing to a maximum of about a bucket of compost per square metre into the soil to incorporate. This Düngegabe is usually sufficient for the whole season, only high-nutrient crops, such as tomatoes or cabbage species need more food.
On the planting finished floor can already. in March, all in the flower Bed: spinach, onions, Watercress, peas, and sugar snap peas (Snow), as well as the robust and tasty broad bean Similarly, the first carrots can be sown: Their seeds are very fine, so you don’t disappear in the shallows of the coarse crumbly earth, first, a thin layer of sowing the earth, then sow the seeds with a little Soil cover.
ornamental plant
In the ornamental beds, living mostly perennial plants, i.e. shrubs, grasses and trees, and hopefully flowers onions. The Latter should not be hacked to the ground, this damages the bulbs. No onions are in the ground, it can be superficially edited, but here, too, no root canal treatment is necessary, because a well-mixed soil contains lots of underground organs, which contribute to a healthy soil structure. An annual Düngegabe is often not necessary, of course, there are exceptions – roses, for example.
most perennials survive the Winter underground or very close to the ground. The inflorescences of the last season die. This means that perennials and grasses beginning of spring are about to cut a hand’s breadth above the ground, so your fresh Greenery can freely sprout. Caution when Cutting trees, as many are overzealous and cut the next flower or fruit – if you are unsure, leave the work to a qualified person.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 24.02.2019, 17:23 PM
