When growing crops, you need to pay a lot of attention to the quality of the soil. After all, over the years of use, the amount of useful substances in it decreases. This leads to a decrease in yield. Organic or mineral fertilizers will help increase it.
Types of fertilizers
Mineral fertilizers are convenient because they contain in a concentrated form the substances needed by the plant at different periods of development. But along with useful substances, various harmful substances and their compounds enter the soil. The acidity index increases. All this leads to the death of worms, beneficial microorganisms that improve soil structure.
Organic fertilizers are devoid of these shortcomings. They have a positive effect not only on the chemical composition, but also on the physical properties of the soil. Most of them contain the entire set of chemical elements, vitamins, and microelements necessary for plants.
Organic fertilizers change their activity depending on weather conditions. In cold weather, they slow down their action, inwarm begin to work actively. They act gradually, and not simultaneously, like mineral ones. Organic fertilizers do not destroy the worms that improve the quality of the soil, they contribute to the active activity of beneficial microorganisms. The soil becomes loose, which allows the plants to get more air and retain water. Organic fertilizers break down minerals so they can be absorbed by plants.
Vegetable growers now use a wide range of organic fertilizers, including well-known ones such as humus, and new ones that have been used relatively recently.
Mustard and its properties
Mustard is grown to be used as a seasoning for meat dishes. The powder prepared from the grains of this plant is used for canning cucumbers and tomatoes.
Mustard powder is used in medicine. With a cold, the powder is thrown into the water in which the legs soar, or poured into socks at night. Most people know mustard plasters, which are applied to the back in the treatment of diseases of the upper respiratory tract.
Mustard is valued for the bactericidal properties of all its parts. Therefore, it is used for the garden and vegetable garden as a precursor of many plants. Mustard seeds germinate quickly, the stems quickly reach their maximum height. The root of the plant is voluminous. It drains the soil, enriches it with oxygen and moisture. Then the mustard stalks are mowed down, embedding in the soil for fertilizer.
Mustard is a good honey plant. Planted near other plants, attracts insects to themfor pollination.
Properties of mustard cake
Mustard pomace has a wide range of he alth benefits:
- It brings 10 times more benefits to the garden than manure.
- Has a fungicidal effect, protecting plants from diseases, including phytophthora and fusarium.
- Repels nematodes, many harmful insects (weevils, cutworm larvae, beetle, codling moth, carrot and onion flies, ants), rodents.
- Cleans up soil from root rot.
Mustard pomace: description
Mustard pomace is obtained from mustard seeds. It is sold in the form of a homogeneous coarse powder. Color taupe.
Sold in bags of 1, 2 and 5 kg.
Mustard cake: use in the garden
You can apply mustard cake in autumn or spring before cultivating the soil. You can throw fertilizer into each hole. In this case, the fertilizer will go directly to the roots of the plant. But direct contact should not be allowed. The reviews advise making cake at a distance of 5 cm from the roots of plants. Therefore, after the mustard cake is placed in the hole, you need to sprinkle it with a layer of earth. You can do this with the Fokin flat cutter. From 0.1 to 1 kg of mustard cake is applied per 1 square meter of soil. Application in the garden depends on the soil and the plants that will be planted on it.
They are guided by the following scheme: when planting strawberries, seedlings of tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, pour into the hole1 teaspoon fertilizer. Applying as a fertilizer for strawberries in the spring, throw a handful of cake and plant it in the soil with a flat cutter. Consumer reviews say that it helps to increase the yield, protects against nematodes that cripple the leaves and fruits of plants, leading to their death.
Mustard pomace gives a good result when used in the garden. User reviews indicate that he not only improved the quality of potato fruits, drove away wireworms from tubers. Users claim that the bushes under which this fertilizer was applied were not attacked by the Colorado potato beetle.
Gardeners who used mustard cake on potato plantings say that the yield of the plot is doubled. The plants under which the cake was applied grew much faster than those under which it did not fall. At the same time, there are traces of wireworm on the treated area, but there are very few of them.
In addition, in the reviews, users say that slugs disappear from the site under the influence of mustard cake. Mice and other rodents bypass it. Improves soil structure. She becomes looser. The amount of weeds is decreasing. This facilitates the process of caring for plants, makes them easy and enjoyable.
When sowing the seeds of carrots, beets, pour a little fertilizer into the furrows, sprinkle with earth, and place the seeds on top. Approximately 50 g of cake is applied per square meter. Mustard cake is also applied when sowing cucumbers and zucchini.
Use in a garden in wetlands or acidic soilimpractical. Do not contribute to the site where they plan to plant cabbage. This is due to the fact that both plants are cruciferous, they have common diseases.
Mustard pomace benefits
- Mustard cake as a fertilizer does not lead to the accumulation of nitrates, heavy metals and other hazardous substances in products.
- Moves useful substances from the depth of the soil up.
- Free from weed seeds, worm eggs, pathogen spores.
- Mustard pomace has been valid for several years.
- Applying in the garden delays the growth of weeds present in the soil.
- Increases yield up to three times.
- Protects soil from erosion.
- Promotes the growth of potatoes, tomatoes, grapes.
- Serves as fertilizer for strawberries in spring.
- There were no cases of overdose when making cake.
Storage of mustard cake
The shelf life of mustard cake is unlimited. You just need to follow some rules for the care of this useful substance. Store mustard cake in a tightly sealed container. Humidity in the room should not rise above 75%.
Sunshine can spoil the fertilizer. Therefore, they should not fall on the stored mustard seed cake. The room temperature should be maintained around 20 degrees.
Price of cake
Kilogram package of mustard cake costs about 110 rubles, 5 kg - 480 rubles. Considering whatthe amount of manure and other garden plant care it replaces, then it is inexpensive.
