Mistakes Gardeners Make When Not Digging
If improving the soil while you are harvesting delicious home remedies is your biggest gardening option, let’s take a closer look at non-digging gardening.
Not only will your crops grow better with less effort on your part, but the resulting land will not have to be affected.
For example, weeds do not act quickly to cover and protect the soil because the ground is covered with a mixture of compost and mulch.
1. Starts too big
One of the most common mistakes gardeners make is growing too fast.
The desire to harvest fresh vegetables throughout the summer is strong, but the reality of horticulture is completely different.
Gardening takes the practice of minimizing planting time properly. It also requires knowledge of seeds, moisture, soil and air temperature, seedlings, pests, fertilizers, and more.
If you invest in a large garden, you can drop it altogether when cultivation is difficult.
Or you may have to invest more time and energy than you have in your garden. You are tired, excited, and tired of planting the garden of the future.
When starting an undeveloped garden, do not bite more than you can chew.
2. Sowing the seeds very quickly
All gardeners are guilty of this. Even experienced gardeners. We were excited because the temperature in April last year was higher than usual, and then came the cold rain - it was 18 days.
Unexpected humidity combined with a gentle breeze gave all the seeds we planted a chance to rot. Still, gardeners need to learn to pick up some losses, be it weather, insects or rabbits, even your own chicken. Ducks will take every opportunity available to sample everything in your garden.
In this case, you will need a fence.
Until the seeds are planted as soon as possible in the unpowered garden, the temptation will always be. However, the presence of compost/mulch already covered with soil does not mean that the soil is warm enough for planting in early spring.
3. Planting too deep - or not deep enough
Another mistake that new gardeners often make is to plant garden seeds too deep in the soil, preventing them from receiving light for germination.
At other times, gardeners tend to sow large seeds very close to the surface. As a result the seeds do not get enough moisture, or worse, they are plucked from the ground by hungry birds and four-legged creatures.
Another thing to consider when finding the right depth for planting seeds is future roots. If a large seed, such as beans or corn, is planted too shallow, it will be blown away by high winds.
Read the seed packs, put them in the garden planner, go out and plant every year. In the end, planting at the right depth is intuitive.
Keep rehearsing it until you can say it with conviction and confidence.
4. Excessive irrigation
Unlike growing in elevated beds, digging gardens will have plenty of moisture in the soil and mulch. As a result, it increases the chances of over-irrigation.
Excessive watering can do much harm to your plants, as well as put little pressure on them to drink. Maybe even worse. Stunted growth, such as rotting of roots and yellow or withered leaves, is a sign of over-irrigation.
Plant roots not only take nutrients from the soil, but they also have the function of respiration. Stifle them in too much water and the abundant harvest you expect will be affected.
Undoubtedly before turning on the hose or sprinkler in your garden, look for signs of drying vegetables. Then check the soil moisture under your mulch/compost layer. Water your garden regularly and in moderation.
5. Fertilizing more or less
The only way to find out what your soil deficiency is is to have a soil test.
In any garden, as the plants grow, they will always extract nutrients from the soil. But again, we do not dig or move soil in our garden that we do not dig, so how do we fertilize?
Start with what you know about the plants in your garden. Do they get enough nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium - the three elements needed for growth? You can also take visual cues from it.
Do your tomatoes and peppers grow well or do they produce more flowers than fruit If they do, you have found an imbalance in the soil.
Once you've figured out what your garden vegetables need, read on to find out if it is banana peel, bone meal, worm molds, or green manure that your plants need. It can be a mix, so be prepared to think about it out of the box.
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