With all the love for the garden and the garden, in the country there is always a lot of hard physical work that you want to make easier. How to create a garden without the hassle, without digging, weed control and worries about regular watering?

Garden without the hassle of the order of work.

Summer residents often take a creative approach to solving complex problems, so the idea of ​​​​a vegetable garden in bags can both interest you and greatly simplify this task. Believe me, such a garden can work better than it sounds!


The scheme is simple. Spread plastic bags of soil on the ground, punch drainage holes in the bottom of the bag with a pitchfork, and cut the top of the bag 6-8 cm short of the corners. The bag will serve as an agrofilm for plants, protecting against weeds.

After planting the seedlings, the bags should be covered with any mulch - hay, needles, bark, etc. That's it, your garden is ready without the hassle! Take care of him as usual - watering, fertilizing, pest control.

If you have a piece of land that your hands can’t reach in any way, this scheme will allow you to quickly ennoble it.

This can be either an overgrown area, or a site with poor soil or clogged after construction.

Such a hassle-free garden works great for busy gardeners. But if on initial stage stacking bags, you are not too lazy to clean the grass under them, then your garden or flower garden in the future will require you to reduce the cost of weeding.

This witty idea will allow you to quickly set up a vegetable garden or flower garden in the most inconvenient area in just a day. Could anything be even easier and faster?

Garden without the hassle in bags. Advantages and disadvantages.

If your site has fertile soil, then you just need to go and dig your garden. But don't let overly sandy or clay soil stop your gardening talents. A garden without the hassle of bags is hard to believe, but it works great.

What are the benefits of a garden in bags.

Garden without the hassle in bags. Flaws.

• This is not very suitable for root crops.
• There are no worms in the bags, which improve soil aeration.
• It is not very clear how many slots in the bottom of the bag will ensure the optimal flow of water from / to the bag.
• A plastic bag does not look cool in the garden, it must be covered with mulch.
• The main disadvantage of a garden in a bag is durability. A bag of soil can last a year or two to harvest good harvest, then the soil is depleted. This is a common problem for all container landings.

Who needs a garden without the hassle?

Are you running out of time? Do you work until late, do you have a family, and do you have a “vacation” at the dacha for the weekend? A garden in bags really will not give you trouble. Such a bed can be planted in a minute in any place convenient for you.

At first glance it seems that this is some kind of abnormal approach - plastic bags, nothing to dig ... However, there are a number of reasons why this is worth a try.

The first reason has already been named - lack of time. You would like to grow homemade vegetables and herbs, but for some reason there is hopelessly not enough time for this fuss, and the thought always arises that all this can be bought at an affordable price in the nearest store.

The second reason is that you are already confused about the composition of the soil, which plant needs what and when, there are still some and. It seems that everyone except you is well versed in this. Besides, you're allergic to the shovel. As intimidating as it may sound, a garden in bags is a happy chance for you. Start with a small 3-4 bags, you will suddenly like it and so you will master your entire site.

The third reason is that there is no perfect place. You may have the perfect sunny spot in your garden, but it's completely unsuitable for a vegetable garden, such as an arbor that already stands. Just drop a couple bags of soil wherever your heart desires. It is so simple.

Feel free to mulch the soil in the bag with cut grass, the plants will only benefit from this, and cover the bags themselves with hay or straw. At the end of the season, take the bag out of the bed and mix the soil. This will be the beginning of ennoblement for any soil, no matter how difficult it is.

What is the best plant?

Any plant that does well in a large container will do well in a bag. This garden is great for tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, beans, garlic, pumpkins, and literally any plant that doesn't require deep rooting. But besides, it is just perfect for organizing flower beds. For planting flowers, it is better to use a vertical bag (bag) with soil.
They are made of special eco-friendly non-woven fabric, not plastic. It, unlike a heavy bag, is easier to install anywhere in the garden. Such bags-bags are widely used as ordinary containers for flowers.

Common mistakes in the garden

Sometimes novice urban gardeners bend their backs all summer, “beautify” their beds on six acres, and vegetables, as if spoken, do not work out. What is the reason for these very offensive failures? What do not like tomatoes and cucumbers, cabbage and carrots in our garden? Perhaps you can find a fairly simple answer to some questions in this article.

But to make it easier to find the right answers to such questions, let's follow the entire sequence of our actions in this delicate issue, as they say, from "A" to "Z".

Common gardening mistakes

* The main mistake is the lack of crop rotation. Even on small area rotation must be observed. This will protect vegetables from pests and especially from diseases.

Only potatoes can grow in the same place for years, but on condition that organic fertilizers are applied to the soil every year.

* A very serious mistake is made by those gardeners who are in a hurry to put their products in the basement as quickly as possible. This can be done only when the air temperature in the basement drops no higher than 5-6 degrees. In warm autumn, it is necessary to keep the products in a shed or under a canopy with good ventilation, and only then bring them into a chilled basement.

Cabbage

* Cabbage will thank the gardener with a record harvest if it is planted on a richly seasoned organic fertilizers soil.

* Cabbage can not be planted in the shade of trees and buildings, because. at the same time, it will give small heads of cabbage or not form them at all.

* In no case should you plant cabbage after other plants of the cabbage family - radish, radish, turnip, swede, daikon, lobo, etc. Otherwise, plants can get sick with clubroot, and then you won’t even have to count on a meager harvest.

Cauliflower

* Cauliflower does not tolerate dry and hot weather. Therefore, with the onset of heat, it must be shaded by covering it with a spandbond film or in a simple old-fashioned way, lifting and tying a few of its leaves into a bundle.

Potato

* The most common mistakes in growing potatoes are thick planting or sparse seedlings. The reason for the first mistake is the desire to plant as many tubers as possible on each running meter.

The main reason for the second error is planting tubers with white ones that have grown long shoots during storage. Such tubers germinate slowly. Therefore, white sprouts that are more than 3 cm long must be broken off.

* To protect potato seedlings from recurrent frosts, it must be piled up to the very tops of the shoots. At the same time, this will cause the growth of an additional layer of roots on which tubers are formed.

* Before germination, the soil must be loosened with a rake. On re-fertilized soil, potato tops reach a meter height, and few tubers are formed. You can try to correct this mistake by taking a little tops from the plants.

* Contrary to the popular misconception that potatoes should not be watered, they are one of the largest "water-drinkers". Moisture is especially necessary for him in June and in the first half of July. Experienced gardeners believe that the number of tubers in potatoes depends on watering in June, and the size of tubers depends on watering in the first half of July.

Onion

* You can not plant onions and garlic in one place for two years in a row, otherwise the plants will be tormented by diseases and pests.

* Onion sets, when planted, are covered with earth only 1 cm from above, otherwise the bulb will develop poorly and be stored. If the bulbs are buried in the soil, then at the end of June, rake the ground from them.

* The bulb will not grow well if you cut a green feather from the plant.

* Bulb onions require abundant watering only at the beginning of growth. 20-25 days before harvesting, watering is completely stopped, otherwise the bulbs will be poorly stored and rot.

* If the onion sets go into the arrow (due to the fact that it was not stored correctly in the winter, and the seeds were not subjected to certain processing), then the arrows should be broken out at the base. If it again forms arrows, then it is better to remove these plants from the garden and use them primarily for food.

Carrot

* Carrots do not tolerate freshly manured soil. At the same time, root crops begin to branch, take an ugly shape.

* Carrots do not tolerate waterlogged areas at all, and on dense clay soils, it also takes on an ugly shape.

* The thinning of the plants is of the utmost importance: the first time at a distance of 1 cm from each other (at the stage of 1-2 true leaves) and the second time after 3 cm from each other (at the stage of 3-4 true leaves).

* Watering carrots is especially needed in the first period of plant growth and at the very beginning of the formation of root crops.

* The main pest of carrots, the carrot fly, is well repelled by onions sown on the same or neighboring garden.

Cucumbers in a film greenhouse

* Cucumbers will thank the gardener with a record harvest if they are planted in freshly manured soil.

* Do not water the cucumbers in the evening, but only in the morning and only with settled warm water.

* Excess moisture provokes the development of rot and disease.

* The most serious mistake is the lack of formation or incorrect formation of plants, taking into account the characteristics of the cultivated variety.

* Cucumbers are afraid of drafts, prefer airing the greenhouse from above and really dislike sudden changes in temperature.

Tomatoes in a greenhouse

* At the time of planting, the seedlings must be fresh, because. withering of seedlings leads to shedding of the first flowers and loss of yield.

* Tomatoes are demanding on heat, but when the air temperature in the greenhouse is above 30 degrees, they stop growing and pollinating.

* Tomatoes love drafts. A "Finnish bath" in a greenhouse can do more harm to them than all frosts, pests and diseases combined.

* Dryness of the soil and high air temperature lead to shedding of flowers and small ovaries, and irregular watering leads to cracking of the fruit.

* In no case should you water the tomatoes cold water especially in hot weather.

* For better pollination of flowers, it is useful in the morning to lightly tap with a stick on the twine to which the plants are tied, because. this facilitates the movement of pollen.

* You can significantly increase the resistance of tomatoes to phytophthora by spraying them twice with iodine solution (3-5 drops) and 1 glass of skim milk per 1 liter of water with an interval of 7-10 days or by spraying them with Uniflor-micro according to the instructions.

Radish

* Radishes do not tolerate dense planting. At the same time, its tops reach for the light, and the root crops do not grow. The main mistake was made when sowing seeds. They must be planted at a distance of 5-6 cm from each other so that the plants are spacious.

* Radishes love moisture as much as cabbages. In hot weather, it should ideally be watered both in the morning and in the evening. On fertilized greenhouse soil, it must be planted, as it were, in a dug trough. Leaving your garden for five working days, do not be too lazy to fill such a “trough” well with water.

Beet

* If you have multi-sprout table beet seeds, then you do not need to sow them immediately in the garden, because. then you have to pull the seedlings a lot. It is better to sow these seeds early in the greenhouse for seedlings, which are then planted individually in their place.

* Of particular importance is the timely thinning of crops: the first time in the phase of 2-3 true leaves at a distance of 2 cm from each other, and the second time after 20 days at a distance of 6-8 cm.

Apples and pears

* Fruits are poorly stored in the same storage with vegetables and potatoes. They are quickly affected by various fungal diseases, in addition, they acquire an unpleasant, unusual smell, while losing their special aroma and taste.

* Much top scores during storage, fruits are obtained when used when packing them polyethylene film, shavings, peat chips and other materials than when storing products in bulk.

* Before being stored in storage, the fruits must be sorted by size and variety, and each fraction must be stored in a separate container. Mixing varieties significantly increases fruit spoilage.

V. G. Shafransky

Ecology of life. Learn the secrets to growing a wide variety of vegetables and herbs and how to be happy doing it. From New Zealand gardeners and gardeners.

New Zealand series "Garden without the hassle."

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It shows how easy it is to small plot grow a huge amount of a wide variety of vegetables and herbs, provide for your family and make money on it. Many interesting, including permaculture solutions. I advise everyone, especially beginners.

Be sure to bookmark it.

Garden without the hassle - beds and seedlings (episode 1)

Garden without the hassle - work in the garden (episode 2)

Harvest (episode 3)

Growing greens, making compost (Episode 4)

Watering the garden, applying mulch (Episode 5)

Have you always dreamed of your own garden, but don't know where to start and are not confident in your abilities?
In words, everything is simple, but in practice, not everything turns out perfectly the first time.
Whether you're enjoying gardening or looking to improve your diet, this program will inspire you to pick up a shovel, plant your seeds, and start an exciting and rewarding journey to harvest.

The series is a mine important information about many plants - it will be told by garden specialists.

Growing flowers, attracting beneficial insects (Episode 6)

Pest Control (Episode 7)

We fight pests. Linda will tell you about the main enemies of your crop: garden bugs, aphids, cabbage caterpillars and snails. Also this week, you can re-plant in the beds where the first crop has already been harvested. We plant turnips, broccoli and cauliflower. In the topic "Our Harvest" - a story about garlic. The Solve the Problem section continues the topic of pest control

Fertilizer for the garden (Episode 8)

The garden is blooming, but if the family wants to continue to receive abundance useful products, she needs to learn how to properly "feed" her garden. Hence, this week's theme is fertilizer. You can buy drugs in the store or prepare yourself. Linda will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of both fertilizers. In the topic "Our Harvest" a story about growing potatoes in old car tires. And the “Solving the Problem” section will teach you how to plant and harvest in containers.

Selling Your Harvest (Episode 9)

If you want to become self-sufficient, you can't just invest in a vegetable garden. We need to figure out how to make money in the garden. Linda booked a trading place at the vegetable market. Devoni and John's task this week is to raise a hundred dollars. The vegetable market is not only a place of trade. Here gardeners meet and share their experience with each other. This is a kind of gardening club. The theme "Our Harvest" teaches to involve children in the garden. In the section "Solving the problem": how to deal with late blight on tomato bushes.

Learning to Harvest Your Seeds (Episode 10)

It's already the end of summer. The Cole family did a great job and achieved good results. The most logical activity at this time is the preparation of seeds for the next season. Linda gives important tips. For example, you can not save the seeds of hybrid plants, such as eggplant - the grown vegetable will be significantly different from the parent. If pumpkin, zucchini and cucumber are grown together, in no case should you stock up on seeds of such plants. Thanks to cross-pollination, next year you will grow mutants. The topic "Our Harvest" will tell about corn. The Solve the Problem section advises what to do with the soil after the summer crops have sucked all the nutrients out of it.

Dear friends of my site! I am pleased to share with you the good news: on the Internet, I met a wonderful person, Elena Anatolyevna Selezneva. Why am I happy about this? Because these people need to be talked about. Her beautiful garden with his own hands is worthy of being known to everyone. This woman, together with her beloved husband, created a simple paradise in the garden. And not in a warm climate (as those who live in middle lane), but in Siberia! near Novosibirsk. So the flowers of Siberia are possible! I think it was love and mutual understanding in their family that created this miracle. And the planting of a petunia, or rather a pinch of its tiny seeds, laid the foundation for everything.

Flowers of Siberia, as you can see, it's possible!

In the article, I begin to talk about this family and about this garden, so there is a continuation ahead. In one article it is simply impossible to show all the luxury they have created on small area, and the theme of the flowers of Siberia is worthy of a long continuation. After all, the climate there is far from the best for floriculture, however, if desired, everything is possible! And I believe that this example will be useful, first of all, to Siberians, and even in our latitudes, it will add inspiration to everyone who has not yet dared to create such beauty.

So, before you is the beginning of Elena Anatolyevna's letter and the first photographs:

“Good afternoon, dear Zoya Alexandrovna!
I am so glad to meet you (albeit virtual).
Once again, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kind words, for your recognition, for your support.
A little about myself: my name is Selezneva Elena Anatolyevna, 46 years old, higher technical education (graduated from the Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute). Married, for almost 25 years, I live soul to soul with my beloved husband.

We bought the cottage 11 years ago. She was very run down. First of all, my husband and I demolished all the greenhouses left over from the previous owners. And they just sowed the entire area with a lawn.

Initially, we bought a dacha exclusively for recreation (barbecue, swimming pool). Flowers did not smell. I fell in love with flowers 4 years ago. By chance. I decided to plant a petunia. For the first time in my life I sowed some flowers. Planting a petunia was 100% successful for me right away. No black legs, every single hair took root, successfully peaked and bloomed gorgeously.

Further more. The flowers took over my head. I started buying other types of flowers. Moreover, not only annuals, but also perennials, and indoor. They all listen to me without question. Perhaps this is some kind of gift from God .... Do not know. I can't explain how I do it all. There was not a single case that something did not rise, did not grow.

To say that I love flowers is an understatement. I love them. I talk to them, sing songs to them. Fumbling with flowers, digging in the ground, ready around the clock. I order a lot of planting material from online stores. Everything grows and blooms. There were even a couple of cases when the cuttings came in very bad condition, just in a terrible, almost unviable condition (brugmansia, fragrant geranium). I wrote claims, photographed. I got my money back for a defective item. And my cuttings ... after all, survived!

Isn't it wonderful? When a friend asked me: “Well, why do I try so hard to follow all the rules, but my flowers do not grow well in my apartment, and you are always busy, you take little care of them, and you have them in lush greenery?”, I answered her: “ Because I love them very much." I, like Elena Anatolyevna, talk with my flowers, I ask their forgiveness if I didn’t do something on time. I enjoy them when I look at them. Believe it or not, I believe that plants are alive, in some way, intelligent, I don't know how to explain it. They understand our feelings for plants, and in general, for everyone and everything. Love Nature, she will thank you!

The whole life of Siberian gardeners is connected with experimentation. The garden and vegetable garden in Siberia, to one degree or another, became possible thanks to experience. This is where the pioneers of Siberian gardening began. This work is now being continued by a huge army of amateur gardeners. The interests and tastes of people are different, but the passion for the new remains common.

Research work on horticulture in Siberia is carried out by numerous experimental stations, where the collection, study and creation of new varieties are carried out, as well as the improvement of agricultural technology for their cultivation.

As a result of many years of research by scientific institutions, it became possible to industrially grow apple trees, currants, raspberries, sea buckthorn in Siberia, and the pedigree assortment in amateur gardening has been expanded. However, the current achievements do not fully reveal the potential of fruit and berry crops. So, for example, the potential yield is estimated at 500 c/ha. And we get at best 150 kg / ha. For strawberries, the potential yield per 1 m² is considered to be 5 kg or more. In fact, obtaining 2-3 kg / m² is estimated to be a record.

Finding ways to get the maximum yield of fruits and berries per unit area is the main task of amateur gardeners. The main directions of these works can be: selection, variety study and agricultural technology.

The simplest and accessible way selection is the collection of mature fruits, the selection of seeds from them and sowing. It should be remembered that the seeds of berry crops can be sown at the end of August - September, and they are on next year will give rise. If you sow immediately after the ripening of the berries, then the seeds will germinate and the young shoots will not get stronger by winter.

But for strawberries and honeysuckle, summer sowing is quite acceptable. It is only necessary to create favorable conditions for the growth of seedlings. Fill the boxes with a mixture of soddy soil, sand, humus (1:1:1), cover with glass and water systematically. By autumn, three to five or more true leaves will appear on the plants. For the winter, the boxes should be covered with insulating material (leaves, straw).

Seeds of apple, pear, plum, cherry require two to three months of stratification at a temperature of 0 + 2 ° and they are sown in spring. To obtain seeds of fruit crops, varieties of the Siberian, Ural, Far Eastern selection and the northern regions of the European part of the country should be taken. Southern and Western European varieties are unsuitable because they give non-hardy offspring.

It is more promising to obtain seeds from artificial hybridization. In this case, local varieties with increased productivity are taken as the maternal parent, and varieties with valuable missing traits are taken as the paternal parent.

To carry out the work, you should stock up on gauze bags, tweezers, penicillin vials, a razor blade, wire and an elastic band. On an apple tree, pear, plum, cherry, pollen is first harvested by collecting buds and isolating pollen sacs. Then gauze insulators are hung on the branches of the parent variety. When the buds open, pollination is carried out with a piece of elastic band attached to a wire, and the insulators are put on again.

Most new varieties of currants, gooseberries, raspberries, and strawberries have self-pollinating flowers. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out castration on these crops, i.e. removal of male organs with a razor, cutting off the corolla of a flower with stamens. Immediately after castration, the first pollination is carried out, and the next day - the second.

In fruit crops, pollination is carried out as flowers bloom. When the female organ of the pistil flower is ready to receive pollen, a liquid appears at its tip, to which pollen adheres well.

10-15 days after pollination of fruit and berry crops, an audit is carried out, gauze insulators are removed, leaving labels with a record of the paternal variety. And at the beginning of the fruit ripening, the insulators are hung again to prevent their accidental loss. More details about the technique of hybridization can be found in scientific institutions and in specialized literature.

All gardeners are passionate about collecting and studying new breeds and varieties of fruit, berry crops and flower and ornamental plants. To obtain a novelty variety, the gardener goes to any conditions and expenses. Here's how to evaluate a new variety. For this, there are certain rules - the method of variety testing.

The main elements of the study of a new variety are: evaluation of winter hardiness, yield, fruit quality, phenological observations. But the assessment of potential productivity is especially important. In blackcurrant, for example, this indicator is the number of berries, flowers, inflorescences per 1 m of annual growth.

To assess the productivity of a variety in spring, during flowering, measure the length of three to five last year's growths and count flowers, inflorescences on them, and at the end of summer - berries and their total mass. If on average there are up to 50 inflorescences, 500 flowers, 300 berries and up to 300-400 g of crop weight per 1 m of growth, then you have a high-yielding large-fruited variety.

Self-fertility is also an important economic feature of currant and gooseberry varieties. You can determine it by putting a gauze insulator on the branch before flowering. If out of 100 flowers 30 or more berries are tied, then your variety is self-fertile.

Given the limited area garden plot, when studying new varieties, dense plantings up to 0.4-0.5 m between bushes are acceptable. For fruit crops, the grafting of several varieties into the crown of a skeleton former is effective.

New crops are very popular in Siberia - sea buckthorn, honeysuckle, shadberry. Many gardeners grow viburnum, mountain ash, bird cherry. Lingonberries, blueberries, blueberries, cranberries, wild roses, which have amazing medicinal and nutritional qualities, are persistently asking for our gardens.

To introduce them into culture is the duty of Siberian gardeners! They don't need a lot of space. Plant 1-2 m² of these shrubs and they will provide your family with a treat. The success of growing blueberries, lingonberries and other shrubs is possible only if you know them biological features and location requirements.

Great opportunities for the gardener to study flower and ornamental plants. A study of 252 species was carried out at the Siberian experimental fruit growing stations ornamental shrubs and 70 promising ones were identified. Testing and selecting the best ones for your garden is an exciting and noble job.

It is very promising to study peonies, tulips, gladioli and, especially, roses in Siberia. But roses need to be done well by learning how to preserve them in winter period and extending the growing season due to film shelters. The selection of the best flower and ornamental plants will allow you to create a unique ensemble of living garden architecture.

In experiments on agricultural technology, there may be methods of pruning and grafting fruit trees, fertilizers and care, protection from diseases, pests, rodents, preservation from freezing, warming up and, finally, methods of plant propagation. In this case, it is necessary to follow the rules of comparison with the control. For example, when studying the effect of fertilizers, some plants should be left on the usual agricultural background. If an increase is obtained when applying fertilizers, then their effect is obvious.

To combat diseases and pests of the garden, it is very important to test plant poisons - infusions from the leaves of tomato, onion, garlic, hellebore, etc. In this case, all precautions should be observed.

A gardener has a wide field of research on the placement and gardening of berry and vegetable crops with the aim of effective use earth. Growing strawberries, for example, can be successfully combined with planting in rows winter garlic, the smell of which repels pests.

The planting of onions can be combined with the sowing of carrots, the enhanced growth and development of which occurs after the harvest of the first crop. On the site of the future planting of tomatoes, you can grow a crop of radishes, dill, or, finally, distill under a film of tulips. On a bed with onion-batun, you can make a vertical wall of strawberry plantings and get additional berry production.

Experimental examples could be continued. Each of them can give interesting results for use in a micro-site, in a collective garden and in a country house.