At the end of summer, summer residents harvest the harvest, sum up the season ending, and lay down the conditions for the next harvest season to be as good as the previous one, and even better. And all perennials growing on the site, still need care and due care, because more than once they will have to please you with a return in the form of fragrant fruits and fresh vegetables.
Not all gardeners get plots with fertile soft soil. If the site is located not far from the forest, horse sorrel, fern and various forest grasses perfectly grow on it, then it can be concluded that the soil here is characterized by high acidity. Without taking appropriate measures to deoxidize the soil, you run the risk of losing the crop you were counting on. Strawberries, tomatoes, cabbage and cucumbers on the soil with high acidity do not grow as you would like.
How to deal with the acidity of the soil?
In order to defile the soil on the site, you need to know how, what, and when to do it. In fact, the acidity is an increased content of hydrogen ions in the soil. This chemical compound does not allow plants to fully develop. With a high level of acidity, the root system can even die. In addition, all attempts to improve the situation with fertilizers result in failure, because because of hydrogen ions, any additional fertilizer turns into minerals that are unsuitable for assimilation by plants. The predominant part of the plants normally develop on soils, the pH reaction of which is in the range of 5.5-6.5 (weakly acid and neutral soils). Such indicators usually correspond to soils that contain a sufficient amount of humus. In acidic soils there is a lot of manganese and aluminum, which act depressingly on plants. In general, with an acidity below 5 pH, you should definitely think about how to deplete the soil in the fall. This is necessary in order to increase the flow of calcium, molybdenum, phosphorus and magnesium, and neutralize the influence of manganese, iron and aluminum. In addition, deoxidation promotes retention of nitrogen in the soil.
Most often, soil deoxidation is made with lime, the so-called "pushenka". If lime is not previously depleted, then alkali will accumulate in the soil, and the heat released during the reaction can lead to root burns. Norm of lime is selected for a specific type of soil. Also, soil deoxidation is carried out with dolomite flour, old cement, chalk or dry plaster. In this case, deoxidizing substances will need 30% more. When deoxidizing the soil with chalk, gypsum or alabaster, take twice as much deoxidizer. Note that for a person some of these substances are not very useful, and, for example, deoxidizing the soil with coal ash will require 10 times more slag!
If the site is small, you can reduce the acidity of the soil with the help of an egg shell. To do this, it is lightly fried in a frying pan, ground a little and sown a thin layer on the beds.
In some sources one can find information that some summer residents are carrying out soil deoxidation, but many agrotechnists consider this method extremely undesirable. The fact is that the sodium contained in it is able to accumulate, and its excess can damage the plants even more than the acid soil.
Plants-assistants
In addition to the substances listed above, there are also
What other plants deplete the soil? This birch, alder, spruce, elm, hornbeam and pine can reduce the acidity of the soil to a half-meter depth.