The essence of hydroponics is to use nutrient solutions instead of soil for growing plants. To fix the plant, that is, as a support for the roots, neutral substrates are used - sand, gravel, verm...

You can mulch the soil with loose materials( peat, sawdust, straw, needles, leaves, etc.), as well as with polymer films, paper, cardboard and dark nonwoven material, for example, lutrasil. Th...

Liming is required for all types of soil with excess acidity for cultivated plants, including peat, as the absorption of individual plant nutrients depends on the reaction of the soil solution - ...

The cultivation of soils in garden plots and increasing their fertility is directly related to the problem of obtaining environmentally safe fruit and vegetables. On the one hand, there is a tech...

Special care and troubles bring to the horticulturists and truck farmers the lowered areas with a high standing of ground waters. This is dangerous, first of all, for fruit trees, the root sys...

The need for plants in different nutrients is not the same. Eight biogenic( "biogenic" means "life-giving") of chemical elements used by plants in large quantities are called macro-elements( "mac...

The easiest way is to collect land from the garden or purchase a ready-made earth mix in the store. But it's easier - not always better, especially when it comes to garden land. In the store, you...

soil is a loose surface layer of land that has fertility properties, that is, the ability to provide plants with the necessary nutrients, water and other conditions for their normal existence ...

The need for nutrients( especially - in microelements) in different plants is not the same. In all cases, the element indispensability rule applies, especially with regard to macro elements. I...