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The chemical industry offers gardeners more and more new preparations to protect plants from pests and diseases. But often the simplest, inexpensive and long-known tools that are always at hand can very effectively solve suburban problems. One of such familiar resources is tar soap. Its special properties come from the […]
Agriculture, like everything else, has its own history. It is quite long: perhaps this is the most ancient branch — historians count almost 12 millennia. In one of the previous publications, we considered slash-and-burn agriculture. And in this article I propose to get acquainted with the chinamp technology — the […]
About 10-12 thousand years ago, in the Neolithic era, our ancestors decided to switch from collecting edible root fruits and hunting to agriculture and animal husbandry. Historians value this fact very highly and call it the First Agrarian Revolution. It was the emergence of agriculture that laid the foundation of […]
For many summer residents, the issue of a place available for planting is very acute: it is often catastrophically not enough to satisfy all summer fantasies. And although my plot is quite spacious, I also try to optimize my beds. In this publication I want to share my experience of […]
For hardening seedlings, many put pots with plants either under an open window or on the balcony. But there is always not enough space for this. The retractable bed-platform is an original way out of the situation. Where to put the seedlings? Many summer residents, in order to get a […]
Recently, the issue of healthy human nutrition has become more and more urgent. And surprisingly, an important tool for solving this problem is the selection of vegetable crops. What is selection and how it is related to a healthy diet Selection is the process of breeding new varieties (hybrids) of […]
Who said that strictly one crop should be grown in a greenhouse? Yes, such recommendations are quite common and have a certain basis… However, an avid summer resident has also learned from her own experience that different types of plants can be perfectly combined in a greenhouse. It turns out […]
A gardener who has decided to master the grafting of fruit or ornamental crops will certainly encounter the concepts of “rootstock” and “graft”. Their meaning is easy to remember: a graft is something that is grafted, well, and a rootstock is, respectively, what is under it: the plant that is […]
When developing a plot, many landowners, without hesitation, import cars of peat, sand, manure or “chernozem” removed during reclamation, although their own mother soil is both better and richer. Therefore, many people should get acquainted with information about soils, their composition and quality. Says a specialist-candidate of agricultural Sciences. Soil […]
Soil quality When determining the agrotechnical quality of the soil, a pit-hole with a depth of up to 1 m is dug in the mother earth. On one side of it, 3-4 steps are made, and the opposite wall is made vertical. On it: determine the depth of the upper […]