The growing season is a critical moment for the life of plants, especially cultivated ones. For most of them, it begins when the ambient temperature reaches 12 degrees. Having received a signal that it is safe enough around, the plant "starts" the mechanism of growth and development, and subsequently - flowering and fruiting. The sooner the heat comes, the longer the growing season, the greater the harvest can be harvested. But what about gardeners in those regions where the warm period is not long enough for garden plants to fully "fit" into it? Especially accustomed to warm soil and subtropical expanse. Warm beds come to their aid.
It is worth clarifying right away in order to avoid mistakes: greenhouses or hotbeds are not used for their heating, heating pipe systems are not laid. A warm bed for heating the root system of plants uses the natural process of heat release by organic matter during itsdecomposition. Arrangement of warm beds
The most perfect warm beds can be created in boxes: in addition to all the benefits, they are protected from infection by weed seeds. The box should be 40-50 cm deep and at least 40 cm wide, any length. It is built from old boards, pieces of slate, bricks, etc. material.
The entire box filler is divided into carbon-containing (paper, rags, dry foliage, dried sawdust) and nitrogen-containing (grass, tops, food waste, manure). The bottom of the box is covered with wood (branches, stumps, decaying pieces of boards and logs). On this litter, alternating and slightly compacted, "carbon" and "nitrogen" layers are laid out, sprinkled with ash and lime. To speed up the decomposition process, each layer can be treated with a compost biopreparation. Additional heating can be achieved by mulching the uppermost layer with compost or covering the box with black film. Now you need to wait about a week, during which the decomposition of organic matter will warm up the warm beds to +25. After that, a layer of soil with a thickness of at least 20-30 cm is poured into the box, in which, in fact, the plants will be planted. It can be fertile land or a mixture of land from a summer cottage and compost (1: 2).
You can arrange warm beds in the spring, when the period of tillage comes. But the best time is still autumn: the lion's share of work in the garden and in the garden is completed, the harvest is harvested, there is more free time andmuch more organic waste to fill the box.
It is desirable to place the boxes, orienting them along the "east-west" line, so that they are heated from above by the sun's rays. An excellent location option - near the house or outbuildings on the south side. Firstly, the warm beds will be protected from northern winds, and secondly, the southern wall, heated by the sun during the day, will radiate the accumulated heat just to the plants at night. stopped. If the summer is hot, mulch the bed with light material (straw, paper, burnt grass).
In warm beds, seeds or seedlings can be planted 3-4 weeks before the planting date. In addition to an early harvest, plants are provided with better nutrition and are more resistant to traditional diseases.
