It is known that it is not recommended to introduce sawdust into the soil, especially fresh ones. A good crop will not grow on such soil. If there is a lot of sawdust, it is not difficult to turn them into a wonderful component for improving the structure of the soil, its breathability.

In order to bring unrotted sawdust to the site, they must first be prepared. To do this, stock up on nitrogen-containing mineral fertilizer, for example, urea. Its amount can be calculated, given that for each bucket of sawdust you will need about one handful of dry fertilizer. It is better to take fertilizer in granules, powdery can cake and form a long-soluble lump.
For harvesting sawdust, it is convenient to use large two-hundred-liter black plastic garbage bags.

The preparation process is very simple. In an old tank or a large garden bucket, sawdust is thoroughly mixed with fertilizer in the specified proportion, pre-moistened, and carefully poured into bags. The filled bag is tightly closed and left for at least three weeks. During this time, the sawdust will be saturated with nitrogen and become safe for the soil. It is good if sawdust needs to be applied in the fall. Over the summer, sawdust in bags will not only be saturated with nitrogen, but will also lose its rigidity and pricklyness.

Both in spring and autumn, sawdust is introduced into the soil for digging for any crop. The experience of using sawdust in potato beds is successful - potatoes give a good harvest of even and clean tubers. However, it must be borne in mind that it is not worth applying nitrogen-containing fertilizers at the end of summer. Especially under fruit plants. This can delay fruit ripening and even fruiting. You can also use sawdust as mulch and insulation, covering beds of garden strawberries, winter garlic and flower beds with wintering flowers.

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The use of sawdust in the garden, vegetable garden

On our heavy loams, they are indispensable. I will tell you about my 10-year experience of using this valuable fertilizer.
We take it from a sawmill located near our partnership. Sawdust has many useful properties.

Wood sawdust is a valuable fertilizer. It contains a lot of carbon, thanks to which the soil microflora actively develops - the number of beneficial bacteria increases by 2.5 times. According to their nutritional properties, sawdust is close to high-moor peat, they are rich in fiber, contain trace elements, lignin, resins, and essential oils. True, they must be used together with lime materials.

High drying capacity of sawdust. One part of them can hold 4-5 parts of water. With the help of this technique, it is not difficult to significantly reduce the damage from floods and prevent flooding of the beds. We dug ditches 40-50 cm deep along the perimeter of the site, scattered the excavated soil over the site and leveled it, and periodically lay sawdust in the ditches, sprinkling them with lime. After 3-4 years, humus is formed from them, which we distribute among the beds. In the spring, we fill with sawdust any damp low-lying places so that you can walk everywhere and start land work earlier.

Sawdust also "works" against harmful insects. Once there was a season favorable for the Colorado potato beetle. But after the introduction of fresh sawdust into the aisles, the number of larvae began to decrease before our eyes. Fresh sawdust emit resinous substances that repel the pest. But over the summer, you have to update the sawdust in the boundaries 2-3 times. A year later, we swap the beds and potato borders.

Sawdust makes an excellent mulch. With a thick layer, we mulch winter garlic and winter crops from autumn. We rake them in the spring so that shoots appear faster.

In hot and dry summers, fresh sawdust, due to its light color, reflects the sun's rays well, saving the soil from overheating and excessive evaporation of moisture. We mulch small-seeded crops with a thin layer, and we try to take smaller sawdust.

We cover them with raspberry roots with a layer 20 cm. We add powdered chalk on top, and then pour it with a solution of urea ( 200 g per 10 liters of water), because microorganisms that develop in sawdust consume a lot of nitrogen. By autumn, the sawdust turns black and their layer becomes thinner, so for the winter we again sprinkle this fresh wood mulch, at the same time adding 50 g of nitrophoska per 1 m2. No digging or loosening is needed at all.

Thanks to sawdust, raspberries do not get sick and grow in one place over 10 years. Strawberries also give a bountiful harvest under sawdust on the same beds for 13 years. Sawdust is laid out on the beds twice: in the spring and after cutting the leaves. Each time, we first scatter ground eggshells and ash, and then sprinkle the ground with fresh sawdust. After heavy rains, we feed strawberries with complex mineral fertilizers (50 g / m2).

Sawdust is an excellent loosening material that improves soil structure and its physical properties. They do not contain weed seeds, unlike manure, and also slowly evaporate moisture. Even if weeds make their way through a thick layer of mulch, they are easy to pull out of the loose earth.

Every year we bring sawdust into film greenhouses to loosen the soil. Pre-moisten them with mullein (3 kg per 10 liters of water). This solution is enough to moisten 3 buckets of sawdust. In autumn, we scatter lime material, and we embed sawdust in the soil 2 weeks before planting seedlings of cucumbers and tomatoes.

We use fresh sawdust as a component in nutrient mixtures, adding 20% ​​of them from the volume of the total substrate. We put sawdust even in the peat nutrient mixture "Baby" and "Ogorodnik". Such soil does not need loosening and frequent watering. We enrich the compost with sawdust. Then the organic content in it reaches 40%.

We put sawdust in a pile, interbedding with plant residues, garden soil, adding a little lime. If sawdust is spruce, increase the dose of lime to 500 g per bucket. In summer, the stack is watered with water and a solution of complex mineral fertilizers.

To speed up the maturation of the compost, we also put microbiological preparations Flumb K or Flumb Super. Compost in this case is ready for the season. We don't even shovel it. In terms of quality, it is not inferior to manure.

Vera Sinitsyn

• In books for gardeners about sawdust, scarce information is given. It is only said that they acidify the soil. So summer residents are afraid to use sawdust. But in vain!

About the benefits and dangers of sawdust on suburban area gardeners have been arguing for a long time. Someone categorically opposes their use, and someone regularly pours a thick layer in the garden and claims that this improves the structure of the soil and fertilizes it.

Who is right? We'll figure out!

But first, let's talk about the properties of sawdust.

Properties useful and not so

1. Sawdust makes the soil looser

They help her breathe, prevent the formation of a crust on the surface of the earth, so it is not necessary to loosen the plantings so often.

2. Sawdust absorbs and retains moisture

For plants, this feature is, of course, only a plus.

3. Weeds do not break through the layer of sawdust

A controversial fact ... But in part it is true. In any case, not everyone will make it through.

4. Sawdust fertilizes the soil

But this is true only if they are well rotted, and if they are applied to the soil correctly.

5. Wood chips acidify the soil

And this is a minus. Some gardeners have had a negative experience and say that even fertilizers do not help later - almost nothing grows in the garden. Let's talk about that too.

6. Sawdust takes nitrogen from the soil

They "steal" it from plants, and this is also a minus. However, any minus can be turned into a plus if you know how to do it.

Problems and Solutions

So, problem number 1 - acidification of the soil. If you mulch blueberries, conifers or rhododendrons with sawdust, then there is no problem at all - they love “sour”. For most other plants, acidification is detrimental.

Decision: If you remember from the chemistry course, alkalis and acids neutralize each other by reacting. Remember how long ago you “extinguished” soda with vinegar when preparing dough? The same can be done for garden plot. Only instead of soda you need to use:

• ash (peat or wood);
• ordinary lime or special lime deoxidizer (sold in stores);
• dolomite flour;
• fertilizers (potassium chloride, potassium or ammonium sulfate, calcium or sodium nitrate, superphosphate);
• crushed chalk.

Generally, alkalis must be applied with sawdust. The main thing is to follow the dose and the rules. So, with lime and dolomite flour, fertilizers enriched with boron and manganese must be applied to the soil.

To find out the acidity of your soil, use special tests with litmus papers. They are also available at garden stores and are very easy to use (no chemistry knowledge required).

Problem number 2 - "pulling" nitrogen. And with a lack of nitrogen, as we know, plants do not develop well.

Decision: urea (calcium nitrate). In this case, it is imperative to use water so that the fertilizer dissolves and the sawdust is saturated with it.

Now let's go directly to the ways of using sawdust in the country.

Scopes of sawdust at their summer cottage

1. Sawdust - mulching material

The tasks of any mulching material:

• keep water in the soil;
• reduce the number of weeds;
• prevent erosion, soil erosion;
• prevent overheating of the soil in summer and its freezing in winter;
• keep the soil loose;
• prevent the formation of a crust on the soil surface;
• protect plants from pathogens present in the soil and falling on the leaves during irrigation;
• stimulate the formation of adventitious roots.

To make sawdust a good mulch, you need to prepare it.

Here is one way:

• Spread a plastic sheet on the ground and pour a bucket of sawdust on it. Distribute them.
• Sprinkle with 200 g of urea.
• Pour 10 liters of water.
• Cover with polyethylene on top, press down with stones and leave for 2 weeks.

After the sawdust "ripen", sprinkle them on the ground with a layer of 3-5 cm, mixing with ash. And you can mix with alkali in the first stage. I note right away that it is not necessary to cook rotted sawdust in this way, but in any case, fresh ones need to be “marinated”.

Gardeners who grow strawberries are especially fond of such mulch - the berries are always clean and do not rot when in contact with the soil. At the end of the season, sawdust is dug up along with the ground.

2. Sawdust + manure = good fertilizer

Dung is an expensive pleasure. To generously fertilize the entire area, mix manure with sawdust and let them rot well. The worms will do their job, and the sawdust will quickly become safe for your garden.

The ratio is as follows: 1 cubic meter of sawdust requires 100 kg of manure (preferably cow manure) and 10 kg of bird droppings. This mixture should lie for a whole year. Periodically compost heap you need to spill water, “flavor” with hay, grass, leaves and waste from the kitchen. It is better to cover the top of the pile so that the rains do not wash out the useful elements. Instead of manure, you can use one urea, mullein or a solution of bird droppings.

Before laying the compost heap, do not forget to moisten the sawdust with plenty of water. Slurry or liquid waste from the kitchen is also suitable. In addition, ordinary earth will be useful in the compost heap, at the rate of 2-3 buckets per cubic meter of sawdust - this is necessary so that the worms get down to business faster.

3. sawdust for tracks

First of all, it looks nice and neat. You can even walk along such paths in late autumn without risking dirt on your shoes.

Secondly, less grass grows on such paths. The sawdust is compressed and prevents the growth of weeds.

AND, third, sawdust, sprinkled on the aisles, protect the edges of the beds from drying out. Do not forget that fresh sawdust in any case needs to be prepared.

4. Sawdust for garden beds

If your site is located in a lowland, using sawdust, you can raise the level of the beds. To do this, dig a trench 25 cm deep, cover it with straw or hay and fill it with sawdust (of course, with urea and alkali). We put the excavated soil - the most fertile top layer - on top, thereby raising the level of the beds. Immediately put the sawdust between the beds. When they rot, they can fertilize plantings.

5. Sawdust for seed germination

Sawdust easily replaces the earth, but only for as long as there are nutrients in the seed. If the plant is not transplanted into the ground in time, it will die.

To germinate seeds in sawdust, you need to do this:

• Pour a thin layer of sawdust into the container and spread the seeds on them.
• Sprinkle the seeds with another layer of sawdust, lightly. You can not sprinkle, but you will often need to check the humidity. So it's better to sprinkle.
• We cover the container with polyethylene and put it in a warm place (+25 ... +30 degrees). When sprouts appear, the container must be removed to a cooler place, the polyethylene removed, and the sawdust sprinkled with soil on top.
• As soon as the seedlings have the first true leaf, we plant them in the ground, in separate containers.

In this way, almost any seed can be germinated.

6. Sawdust and early potato harvest

Do you want to eat new potatoes before all the neighbors? Use sawdust!

What do we do:

• Germinate tubers of early varieties in the light.
• Moisten sawdust with water and pour them into the box with a layer of 10 cm.
• Put the potatoes on top, sprouts up, sprinkle them with another layer of sawdust (2-3 cm).
• Keep sawdust moist. When the length of the sprouts reaches 6-8 cm, we plant the potatoes in the holes and completely cover them with earth. From above you need to lay straw or hay, you can cover it with a film for the first time (if it is still cold).

This preparation method planting material allows you to harvest a few weeks earlier than usual.

7. Sawdust and plant insulation

Most reliable way- stuff bags with sawdust and lay them around the plants. In this case, sawdust does not get wet during bad weather, does not freeze, and does not become a habitat for mice. True, there is a more reliable way. So, the vine is often insulated as follows: a frame is knocked together from the boards (like a box without a bottom), put on a plant, covered with sawdust and covered with polyethylene. From above they also throw a layer of earth. With such protection, the plant is not afraid of any frost.

It is necessary to warm the plants with sawdust carefully. If the sawdust is simply poured, they will get wet, and then turn into an ice lump. In addition, as already mentioned, mice and other rodents can “have fun” in them. Therefore, it is better to use the dry method of insulation with sawdust, be sure to cover them with polyethylene and something inaccessible to mouse teeth.

8. Sawdust on the farm

What else can be done with sawdust in the country?

Here are some possible areas of their application:

Ceiling insulation

Of course, now there are more modern and safer materials - for example, ecowool - but you can use sawdust in the old fashioned way. And if they are mixed with clay and applied to the attic floor, then you will not only insulate the ceiling, but also take care of fire safety.

Space heating

There are even heating boilers, which work precisely on compressed sawdust.

Wall plaster

Previously, this was the only thing they used to plaster: they mix clay with sawdust - that's plaster for you. Cement can be used instead of clay. The method is suitable, for example, for plastering garden house or gazebos.

Sawdust in children's creativity

Kids actually love them as much as sand! Do you know that you can even make colored applications from sawdust? To do this, they need to be painted in a solution of gouache and dried in the sun. Then draw some kind of outline on the cardboard, smear it with clerical glue and pour multi-colored sawdust on it, creating applications.

Storing vegetables in the cellar

As you know, sawdust absorbs water well. Therefore, feel free to use them if the cellar is too damp: sawdust will absorb excess moisture, and fruits and vegetables will not rot.

Firing of clay products

If you are fond of modeling, you should know that a beautiful glaze on products appears during repeated firing with the use of sawdust, during the combustion of which the product quickly heats up and cools down.

sawdust as stuffing material

Do you make toys, decorative pillows for the garden or dolls? You can stuff them with sawdust. By the way, now is the time to make a garden scarecrow for the new summer season.

Sachets

From juniper sawdust you can make a flavor for the cabinet. Put them in a rag bag and hang them in your closet.

Animal bedding

In this case, sawdust plays 2 roles: floor insulation and hygiene products (absorb slurry, waste). However, not all are worth using. Of course, fruit tree sawdust is best - they have less resin. Pine - you can, but it is desirable to dry them well first. But from walnut sawdust in horses, inflammation of the hooves can even happen.

sawdust for smoking

They smolder slowly, give a lot of smoke, and this is what you need when smoking.

Sawdust for ice

Sprinkle them on icy paths. Safe and environmentally friendly!

Sawdust is organic matter, which is successfully used to increase yields in summer cottages. In the garden and in the garden, sawdust can be used to fertilize the soil, control weeds and pests. If you properly mulch trees and shrubs with them, you can improve the quality and extend the yield time.

Sawdust consists of fiber, a variety of trace elements, resins, essential oils, therefore, they become an excellent fertilizer for all plants. They enrich the soil with carbon, due to which beneficial microflora increases in it. They make the soil more loose, light, breathable, which simply saves heavy loamy soils.

The ability of sawdust to retain moisture can be very beneficial in dry areas and in lowlands that are affected by floods or rainstorms. To remove excess water from plants, make small trenches (30–40 cm wide, 20–25 cm deep), fill them with sawdust. And to keep moisture in the soil, produce mulching. Mulch made from fresh sawdust prevents moisture from evaporating, reflects sunlight due to its color, which means it does not allow the earth to overheat in the hottest summer. Properly organized mulching saves gardeners from the need for frequent loosening of the soil, weeding the beds, because it prevents the formation of a crust after rain. And if any weed sprouts, it is very easy to remove it from the loose, airy soil.

The roots of many shrubs are located at shallow depths; a tyrsa scattered around the stems will help provide them with the right amount of moisture.

Which tree sawdust to choose

For fertilizer, you can use chopped parts of all trees, as long as they are not treated with chemicals. But coniferous sawdust contains a lot of resin, which slows down decay, so they are not used for compost and as part of complex dressings. But they perfectly drive away the Colorado potato beetle, weevil and other pests - it is useful to sprinkle row aisles on potato beds, cover strawberries, roses or other plants for the winter. Pine sawdust the Colorado potato beetle does not like it very much in the potato garden, but it is advisable to change them at least three times over the summer - then there will really be a result. You can mulch them with eggplant beds and bell pepper, which are also often attacked by this pest.

Most often, people use the most diverse tyrsa, not caring about tree varieties. Probably, the trees we use in construction and the furniture industry are only those that do not harm the plants in the country. The main thing is to use sawdust correctly, knowing that their excess can acidify the soil very much, and digging in fresh can deprive the earth of nitrogen. Lime, wood ash, urea or manure will help enrich the soil with useful elements without disturbing the acid balance and without reducing the amount of nitrogen.

Video "All about soil mulching"

How best to mulch the soil and why you need it.

How to use

The regular introduction of rotted sawdust with manure and ash (or lime) into sandy soil, of course, will not turn it into black soil, but it will significantly increase the fertile possibilities, and will increase the yield of literally all crops. It must be remembered that fresh sawdust is mixed with fresh manure, and rotted - only with rotted. If the soil is not too alkaline, then you can always add lime powder or ash to prevent excessive acidity.

Vegetable beds can be mulched with a thin layer of sawdust (optionally mixed with manure) immediately after transplanting. This will help retain moisture, make it less burdensome to care for plants - less often you have to loosen and weed. By the end of summer, the tyrsa will mix with the top layer of the earth and make it more loose and airy. So you can organize an unobtrusive, but constant delivery of the necessary feeding to the root system of plants.

Usefulness for trees and shrubs

You can use wood waste for mulching not only in vegetable beds. It is very useful to sprinkle the earth in a raspberry with a thick layer of sawdust. They do it this way: a thick layer of tyrsa (20 cm) is sprinkled with lime, diluted urea is poured on top. Thus, it turns out that the earth constantly receives organic fertilizer, retains moisture, a constant temperature - even in the hottest dry summer, raspberries will have enough moisture, and a thick layer of mulch will protect the soil from overheating. The owner will not often have to loosen the ground, there will also be much less weeds. The result of such care will be an increase in yield, even an extension of the fruiting period.

Currant roots are located at a depth of 10 cm from the surface, very often the earth dries out in summer or freezes in winter to such a depth. Some summer residents use wood waste to create more comfortable conditions for this plant. Tested by experience: if you mulch the ground around the bush, the currant grows better, the fruits are larger, sweeter. On large beds, it is advised to fill the whole earth with sawdust, even between rows of bushes. The same applies to others shrub plants in the country.

ground under fruit trees often mulched too to retain moisture, get rid of weeds or overheating. It is noticed that then more side shoots appear. In addition, young trees are covered with wood waste to protect the roots from freezing. But it is important to do this just before the cold so that the mice do not make their winter nests in warm organic mulch. It is better to cover the soil under a tree in spring with fresh tyrsa with manure - slow overheating will provide top dressing for the entire growth season. If there is a danger of excessive acidity, it is worth adding lime or ash.

Sawdust can bring as many benefits to trees and shrubs as it can to vegetables in garden beds. The main thing here is not to overdo it, otherwise you will have to remove the caked, but not rotted remains, so that they do not delay the freezing of the earth in the spring. Some summer residents, fearing spring frosts, thus (constructing a thick layer of sawdust and snow around the trunk) try to delay flowering. But competent botanists do not approve of this - not all trees can benefit.

Video "How to mulch trees"

This video tells and shows about mulching trees with sawdust and wood chips.

Mulching with sawdust is a well-known technique of experienced gardeners.

Nature itself suggested simple actions to us, because in forests and wild places, roots and plants that people do not care for somehow survive cold and heat.

The reason is the natural covering of fallen leaves, brushwood, needles. Such a mantle reliably protects the soil from leaching and erosion, as well as from insects.

Therefore, in the garden or in the garden, for beds, mulching can also be used, and sawdust, pieces of bark, coniferous needles, film, gravel, straw can be used as bedding.

This method is equally good in the greenhouse and for beds.

Mulching in this way is suitable for any soil. It not only protects the soil and plants from the cold, but is often used as a fertilizer that will enrich even poor soil.

For example, if your flowers in the spring, bushy plants (raspberries, currants) or vegetables (tomatoes, cabbage) at a later time do not have fruits and ovaries, then mulching can be an excellent way out.

Layered mulch allows plants to "breathe" and absorb fertilizer better. For growing tomatoes, this is the most effective method improve the quality of the crop.

Since sawdust tightly covers the ground, without sunlight, a large number of bacteria develop in the layer.

They process most of the sawdust, so we get fertile soil at the output.

In addition, mulching with sawdust for tomatoes or potatoes, for example, is simply necessary when the dry season comes.

This is logical, because open ground heats up faster under open sunbeams, and these plants (this applies to both tomatoes and potatoes) deteriorate very quickly in such soil.

Sawdust retains moisture and protects the earth from overheating. With this approach, you can water vegetables and bushes less.

If we are talking about fruits that are close to the ground, then mulching helps to avoid rotting.

This is true for cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, and also for strawberries, which most often lie directly on the ground.

To reap a good harvest, you need not only to weed the beds and paint the fence in the country, but also to do fertilizer.

How to use mulching as fertilizer?

Many types of fertilizers are quite expensive. Sawdust in this regard is a very profitable option, in addition, they are absolutely safe. They act as the basis for the nutritional complex.

The best way to prepare it is to pass the sawdust through the compost. However, remember that it is forbidden to introduce clean, fresh sawdust into the soil (as fertilizer).

It is necessary to apply natural fertilizer based on mulch and compost in the spring, because certain, rather high temperatures are necessary for decay.

Fresh sawdust is not a fertilizer, it is extremely low in nitrogen, it is fibrous and contains cellulose.

However, the lignin contained in the mulch helps form the stem of the plant and conducts nutrients to it.

After some time, microorganisms begin to use mulch as a medium, saturate wood chips with useful elements.

If you do not put sawdust in a compost pit, then the process of soil rotting will take several years. In compost, this period can be significantly reduced.

Sawdust compost is pretty easy to make. As ingredients, we take fresh chips in large quantities, urea, water, ash.

If you have household organic waste, straw, grass, then they can also be added to the compost pit.

Urea is first dissolved in water, and then the materials of the future fertilizer are watered. You can also add manure to enhance the beneficial properties.

Do not forget to repaint the borders and fences after the work has been done to give the summer cottage a cozy look.

What plants need to be mulched?

Many gardeners use sawdust mulching everywhere and for any plants. This technique is suitable both at home and in the country, where the owners will appear infrequently.

Why? Mulching allows you to inhibit and slow down the growth of weeds, and also saves moisture, which is very useful during hot periods.

This approach is relevant if you have a lot of rose bushes or other whimsical flowers in your greenhouse.

Passages between the beds of tomatoes, currant and raspberry bushes, paths on the site and near the flower beds are also sprinkled with shavings, because this allows you to give the area a neat look without weeds and pits.

Mulching is also used when planting potatoes. So, when hilling potatoes, the resulting "furrows" are covered with a substrate, which allows you to grow healthy fruits.

This layer is also useful for potatoes because it retains moisture in the ground and it is not necessary to water the bushes (and sometimes these are entire plantations for which there is simply not enough water).

Therefore, sawdust is the best way out for potatoes and other root plants - carrots, garlic, onions.

For growing cucumbers, small sawdust is used for mulching. Coniferous sawdust is also suitable, because they additionally warm the soil in winter.

They are laid in the base of the beds, after which they are covered with manure.

After that, another layer is applied, and then you don’t have to worry that the cold will cause the cucumbers to freeze, but the laying should be done in the fall, not in the spring.

Very often mulching is used for raspberries.

So, raspberry roots after the procedure, where the soil is covered with a thick layer, retain moisture and nutrients better, and as a result we get tasty fruits, which come out more per bush than usual.

Thanks to this method, you can not replant a raspberry bush for up to fifteen years.

Also, experienced summer residents can not do without mulching for tomatoes, strawberries, whimsical plants (for example, roses) and much more.

In general, any plants grow better if mulching is applied to them, but only if they are combined with nitrogen fertilizers. So, onion feathers after the procedure will grow taller and turn out juicier.

Mulching to loosen and cover the soil

Since fertilizer sawdust rots rather slowly, it is often used to loosen the soil.

Most often, mulching for such purposes is carried out in a greenhouse, for tomatoes, raspberries of exotic varieties, flowers.

In a small greenhouse, we need three buckets of shavings, three kilograms of humus and ten liters of water.

All this is mixed in a container (trough, barrel) and left to brew for a couple of hours. Then they are evenly applied to the soil.

If we are not talking about a greenhouse, but loosening is required for open soil, then sawdust can be used during digging.

Just add small portions of the substrate to the soil, from which it will be loose. Therefore, the need for frequent watering disappears by itself.

sawdust are ideal material for laying the ground for cold weather.

More than once, the owners on their plots faced the problem of freezing, especially in those latitudes where winters are characterized by great frosts.

Chips are easy to store in any dry place, they do not deteriorate over time - just pack them in bags and leave them in the pantry.

Sheltering the soil is considered the safest way to wait out the cold.

How to mulch roses, vines and vines that cannot be dug out of the ground and have vines? We bend them and cover the entire length with a substrate.

Mulching is best done in late autumn so that it does not start to rot under the sun and mice do not start in it.

And in order to completely secure the shoots of roses, you can make an air-dry shelter. To do this, we make a small frame made of wood, lay a film on top of it, and a layer of sawdust on it.

After once again the film and the ground.

Such a layer will allow you to withstand even the most severe frosts, it can be used not only for roses, but also for low plants (raspberries, tomatoes) until frost (after all, they are more tender and wait out the winter only in a greenhouse).

However, use rose sawdust wisely.

If in a greenhouse you can save any plants from snow and rain, then on the street constant moisture and temperature changes can turn mulching into an ice crust, without air access and with constant decay of plants under the layer.

Here, again, the frame will help out. However, unlike roses, for garlic, "wet" coating with sawdust is the most successful.

How to protect strawberries with mulching

Few gardeners do not know what strawberries are on winter period do not dig out of the ground. On the contrary, strawberry sprouts are trying in every possible way to insulate so as not to freeze the root and leaves.

If the strawberries freeze, then the next season it will not produce berries. This is true for raspberries and roses (in their case, they will not bloom).

Well, if you are a professional farmer who grows vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers) and fruits with berries (strawberries) in a greenhouse.

But if it's about open ground, then you can not do without other ways to save heat.

Strawberries are often mulched with sawdust. This method came to us from Western farmers, it is used even on huge farms, as the most profitable and safe protection for berries.

This is also true for tomatoes, the trunks of which at the beginning of the season through the ground infect bacteria, popularly called "gray rot".

Simply mulching the soil is enough to avoid many plant diseases (roses, tomatoes, strawberries, etc.).

For a good summer resident, everything is beneficial, even, it would seem, such unnecessary material as wood shavings. It can be a good fertilizer, material for mulching or seed germination. Sawdust for the garden, benefits and possible harm which will be discussed later, with skillful use, can be a good helper in solving many country problems.

Sawdust in the garden - benefits and applications

Sawdust for the garden is used by summer residents for:

1. Soil loosening. Bulk shavings conduct air well into the soil, which improves the root respiration of plants.
2. Sawdust mulch protects the ground from excessive evaporation of moisture, germination of weeds and freezing of plant roots in harsh winters.
3. Soil fertilizers. Overripe sawdust for the garden, the benefits and harms of which are balanced in the composition of compost - excellent top dressing for many horticultural crops.
4. Germination of seeds. The seeds of many garden crops germinate easily in a mixture of sawdust and saltpeter.
5. Soil acidity regulation. Such an additive increases the acidity of the soil, which will benefit hydrangeas, blueberries and azaleas.
6. Drainage of marshy and damp places. Wood sawdust absorbs five times its own weight in moisture.

What do sawdust give in the garden?

As we have already learned, sawdust for plants can be used in completely different ways. AT skillful hands will become a good helper sawdust for the garden, the benefits and harms of the use of which depend on the implementation of certain rules:

1. The introduction of sawdust for autumn digging makes the earth looser, which is great for heavy and clay soils.
2. Benefit will bring environmentally friendly sawdust as part of a compost heap. They will increase the yield of your beds by 20-25%.
3. With excess moisture in the soil, you can dig grooves between the rows and pour sawdust there, which will absorb a large amount of unnecessary moisture.
4. If you cover the ground in the garden with sawdust, avoiding tree trunks, then you will forget about what weeds are.
5. Well, grapes, clematis and other delicate crops covered with sawdust and polyethylene survive the cold winter well.

The use of sawdust in the garden is not limited to fertilizer, shelter for the winter and soil mulching. The benefits of such soil have long been appreciated by gardeners for growing seedlings. On a layer of wet sawdust mixed with nitrogen fertilizer, lay out the seeds at a distance of about 4-5 cm from each other. Then they are covered with another thin layer of wet sawdust and film and cleaned in a warm place. After seed germination, seedlings are exposed to coolness and wait for the first true leaves to appear. After the young plants must be planted in ordinary soil.

Wood sawdust as fertilizer for the garden

Fresh sawdust as a fertilizer for the garden is better not to use. Such shavings draw on a good part of the nitrogen from the soil, which is so necessary for vegetation to develop. Wood "waste" needs to be recycled to become useful for green spaces:

1. Raw sawdust, manure, bird droppings, tops of plants and grass, ash or dolomite flour are laid out in layers in a compost heap, in a word, everything that is on the site.
2. Once a week, the pile is plentifully watered and mixed.
3. For greater enrichment, you can pour out herbal infusions and biological products.
4. After such procedures, at least after 2 months, and preferably after 6-12, the finished fertilizer can be applied to the soil.

Almost all crops can be mulched with sawdust - vegetables, berries and fruit trees. This mulch will protect plantings from weeds and some pests. The procedure is best done with rotted sawdust. In the spring, lay out for planting, cooked 1-2 years ago. The layer thickness is made from 4 cm for berries and increased to 20 for fruit trees.

Are sawdust good for garden soil?

The benefits of sawdust in the garden, when used correctly, are absolutely obvious, we discussed it above. This cheap material available at any garden center and pet store. When buying proven fertilizers, you can be sure that there are no harmful impurities that can harm the garden. It is better to prepare the material for soil application - let it rot. Then you can use less mineral fertilizers. But there are situations when fresh sawdust will also benefit.

Fresh sawdust in the garden - good or bad

The use of fresh sawdust in the garden is mainly associated with decorative functions and crop preservation:

1. falling asleep garden paths. This looks very good, protects against weeds and will leave your shoes clean in bad weather.
2. It is good to sprinkle a thin layer of sawdust on the ground under shrubs - raspberries, strawberries. So the berry will be cleaner and mold and fungus will not get to your fruits.
3. Fresh sawdust will help preserve canna, dahlia, and begonia tubers in winter. In dry sawdust in coolness, they will survive the winter perfectly.

Rotten sawdust in the garden - good or bad

Overripe sawdust for the garden is used as part of compost. Above, we have already considered that for the introduction of pre-prepared fertilizer your vegetables: potatoes, squash, tomatoes and zucchini will tell you “Thank you!” in the form of a good harvest. If there is no full-fledged compost, but there are sawdust and - also good. Within two weeks, fresh chips are poured with a solution of water and urea and covered with polyethylene. A good organic fertilizer saturated with nitrogen is ready.

Coniferous sawdust in the garden - benefit or harm

Coniferous sawdust in the garden is used much less frequently, but you should not completely abandon them. Spruce and pine shavings are more common than other needles. They are much stronger than deciduous, deplete the soil with nitrogen. In addition, they acidify the earth more actively. For some cultures, this is good - coniferous trees they love this, but such changes will harm cabbage, beets and potatoes. With the right ratio, coniferous shavings with nitrogen-containing fertilizers, lime or dolomite flour will only benefit your garden and garden.

What plants love sawdust?

Many novice summer residents often ask the question: “What plants are sawdust useful for?”. The answer to it comes from the ability of sawdust to oxidize the soil:

1. Carrots, tomatoes and cucumbers love slightly acidified soil.
2. The heat from overripe sawdust will spur seeds of zucchini, squash and pumpkin seeds to grow.
3. Onions, garlic and beets can also be mulched with a thin layer of sawdust.
4. Berries react well to mulching with sawdust - strawberries, raspberries and strawberries. Under the layer of shavings, the necessary moisture is preserved, the berries do not get dirty on the ground, and garden pests (snails and slugs) are not afraid of them.

The sawdust itself is not dangerous product. Harm sawdust in the garden can bring their improper use:

1. Do not use sawdust with traces of chemical liquids - varnishes, paints, solvents, etc.
2. As already mentioned, sawdust acidifies the soil, so they are recommended where the ph is shifted towards alkaline or for plants that prefer acidic soils.
3. Fresh sawdust takes useful trace elements from the soil. Therefore, they are used in combination with saltpeter, urea or manure.
4. It is also necessary to carefully cover the plants for the winter with a thick layer of shavings - the lower layer will begin to rot, and the upper one will remain unchanged. This will adversely affect the root system of plants.

Cheap and useful fertilizer- sawdust for the garden, the benefits and harms of which are due for the most part to the correct use. With the right ratio of nitrogen-containing fertilizers and lime, they will make a good fertilizer and mulching material. A dry material will perfectly decorate country paths, protect garden soil from weeds and will keep the tubers of some plants in the winter.

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