It happened! You have finally become the proud owner of six, and maybe more acres. Now is the time to figure out what needs to be done on the site and in what order. What to build? What inventory to buy? What to plant? In order not to step on your own rake, it makes sense to study someone else's practical experience.

To begin with, the site needs to be put in order, remove debris, decide what and where to plant. The layout of the site should be carried out taking into account the illumination and the type of soil, because each culture is more or less demanding on these two factors. Also on the site it is necessary to put an outbuilding for inventory (if you do not plan to store everything in the house) and organize a compost pit - a lot of organic waste will be generated during the work. The "pit" can be made in the form of a box or a "well", preferably with a lid.

Decide on the illumination of the area. Cucumbers, radishes, legumes, and beets grow well in partial shade. Here you can plant onions, parsley, mint. The sun is simply necessary for the normal growth of tomatoes, bell peppers, eggplants. They need not only light, but also a lot of moisture, so sandy soils that do not hold water well will have to be sprinkled with black soil. As an option, planting will have to be carried out in deep beds, furrows. But on clay soils, the beds should be made raised.

The width of the beds may vary depending on the species grown. But as a standard, during the initial planning, ridges with a width of about 0.6 meters are broken. Row spacing is needed between the beds in order to process the crops, as well as for their normal growth. The row spacing is about 1 meter.

What to grow for a beginner gardener

Garden crops can be divided into two large groups: unpretentious and those that require careful care. You should not immediately take on whimsical ones - cucumbers, cabbage. Of course, they are the ones you most want to see on your table as “trophies”. But it is better to start with carrots, beets, garlic, radishes, green peas. They practically do not get sick, do not require frequent watering and grow almost on their own. In addition, if you do not plan to live in the country, then crops that require a lot of moisture will simply wither away.

Do not forget that there is such a thing as the compatibility of garden crops. This is due to the fact that some species consume the same nutrients from the soil, and often the "neighbors" simply do not have enough of them. In addition, you need to attract insects for pollination, so it is worth planting honey plants next to cucumbers, for example, chives.

Proper alternation of beds is important not only for the proper growth of garden crops. There are species among plants that will protect the crop from pests. Celery saves cabbage from butterflies, tomatoes protect country crops from moths and aphids, beans from the Colorado potato beetle. So that pests do not encroach on strawberries, the “plantation” can be thinned out with a bed of onions, dill, thyme or parsley.

Conclusion: Proper alternation of crops in the garden is the key to a bountiful harvest.

The topic of the neighborhood of plants on the site is quite extensive and deserves not only a separate article, but a whole book. So before planting a particular crop, you need to study what it loves, with whom it gets along well, what diseases it suffers from and what pests it attracts.

Competent mixed fit strawberries with onions

You also need to carefully consider the choice of variety: it should take root well in your climate and on your type of soil. With a complete lack of experience, you can turn to your neighbors in the area: they have probably already decided which type of potatoes and tomatoes grows best in your area.

When to plant

For each vegetable, fruit, seedling, there is a time for sowing seedlings, for planting in a greenhouse, for planting in the ground (we advise you to study the section on our portal dedicated to).

Novice gardeners who have not yet acquired a greenhouse (a temporary structure without a foundation) or a greenhouse constantly keep in mind the most main question: when can you sow seedlings and plant certain crops in the ground? Of course, it is worth making an adjustment for climatic conditions in a particular region, but in general the picture looks like this:

Flower lovers:

Garden work by season

The title "cottage resident" is not just a statement of the fact of owning a piece of land. It really is a way of life. And in summer, and in spring, and even in winter, the gardener-gardener will find something to do. Each month has its own tasks.

• January. Plan plantings, purchase fertilizers, seeds, drugs for diseases and pests, shake off snow from bushes and trees, wrap unpainted trunks with nylon or propylene from mice and hares, in severe frosts - rake snow into tree trunks, feed birds to avoid pecking buds.
• February. It's time to buy soil for seedlings, sort out bulbs, sow celery, sow peppers, tomatoes, eggplants at the end of the month.
• March- troublesome time for the gardener-gardener. At the beginning - the time of sowing heat-loving varieties of tomatoes, bell peppers and eggplants. It is also time to sow petunias, snapdragons, marigolds and some other flowers, plant seedlings of some types of trees. At the end of the month - picking seedlings. On the site, it is necessary to carry out drainage work, sanitary pruning, spraying, prepare beds for winter sowing.
• April- the most responsible time. Drainage works, spraying and preparation of beds continue. It is necessary to feed the bushes, prepare the potatoes for sowing. You can sow early greens - watercress, radish, parsley, dill. If the end of April is warm and the seedlings are ready, you can plant tomatoes, peppers, eggplants.

Video - spring work in the garden

• May- landing time. We fight pests, but do not spray trees mineral fertilizers, prepare and plant seedlings, plant apple trees. If the soil has warmed up to 13 ° C, then you can plant potatoes. We sow onions, garlic, parsley, turnips, sorrel, radishes and carrots. Toward the middle or end of the month, it is time to sow melons, legumes, cruciferous (cabbage). Planting cucumbers.
• June. If you have not planted potatoes yet, then there will be a lot of work. We spray young ovaries of trees, bushes, fight weeds, pests, birds. We pinch raspberries, sow heat-loving plant varieties, fertilize cucumbers, melons, and berry bushes. We pluck the “shot” onion and garlic. We spud and spray a potato plantation. Processing tomatoes and cucumbers.
• July. It's time for the first harvest! You also need to remember about feeding shrubs, processing potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers. It is worth protecting the pepper from soaking. IN last days Months do not forget to open the tomatoes.
• August. We support fertilizing shrubs, heat-loving trees. We fight late blight in tomatoes, protect peppers and cucumbers from rotting. A layer of soil must be removed from onions and cabbages in order to preserve the fruits. You can plant winter garlic. We harvest berries, process strawberries, preparing them for frost. We remove the roots of fruit trees.

Video - autumn work in the garden

• September. At the beginning of the month, you can plant strawberries. It's time to dig potatoes, cut and harvest flower bulbs. We harvest root crops, plant heat-loving shrubs, whiten trunks from hares.
• October. We fill the root circles of trees, bushes with leaves, weeds, spraying, if necessary, watering, top dressing. We plant suitable types of trees, bushes.
• November. We carry out the last feeding of trees and bushes, we fight lichens, we process the beds from bacteria, we cut off the stems of perennials, we cover roses.
• December. We sort through the harvest, check the storage conditions, knock snow off trees and bushes, read interesting books for gardeners.

So in any month there will definitely be a job for a real owner, and this list of works is far from complete.

garden tools

To carry out operations for the processing of the garden and vegetable garden, you will need a lot of tools. All garden tools can be divided into several groups:

1. For tillage.
2. For trimming trees and bushes.
3. For harvesting.
4. To remove weeds.

1. The main garden tool, of course, is a shovel. They are of two types:

• with a rounded blade - used for digging, work at shallow depths;
• bayonet shovel - needed for work on hard ground.

From bulky tools you will also need:

• rakes - for final tillage, loosening, cleaning leaves;
• chopper (hoe or flat cutter) - for tillage with grassy cover, weeds, hilling, loosening, breaking up clods of earth;
• scythe (lawn mower) - to remove thickets of grass, weeds;
• pitchfork - for digging, transshipment of grass, hay.

From a hand tool you will need:

• hand shovel - useful for working with a separate plant (digging up during transplantation and others);
• hand rakes for loosening;
• hand forks for digging roots, loosening.

2. To process trees and shrubs, you also need your own tool. The list is small:

• manual pruner for trimming excess branches;
• a small ax for cutting down plantings;
• short hand saw for removing branches of medium thickness;
• garden shears (brush cutter) for forming the crown of a shrub.

3. For harvesting root crops, the following are used:

• large and manual shovels;
• ladder (not a tool, but a valuable fixture);
• garden knife (used mainly for assembling melons);
• potato digger (useful on a large plantation);
• manual cultivator (fruit picker) for harvesting fruits from trees.

Valuable tool root remover

Also, in the course of gardening work, one cannot do without buckets, bags, wheelbarrows (stretchers). So the shopping list will be quite extensive.

And that's not it

There are a lot of tricks and wisdom in gardening. Separate articles deserve diseases and pests, as well as ways and means of dealing with them. At first, it can be difficult to decide on plant varieties. You need to protect your beds and garden from freezing, getting wet, drought ... In a word, you will have to gain serious theoretical experience so that everything goes smoothly in practice, and the harvest is the envy of friends and acquaintances.

Video - tips for beginner gardeners

Each gardener, working on a personal plot, knows how to care for fruit trees, how to grow big harvest strawberries, how many potatoes, carrots and other vegetables to plant, willy-nilly, he gains practical experience.

Sometimes such a gardener himself finds answers to questions from practice and willingly gives advice to gardeners, neighbors in the country, with novice lovers to dig in the beds.

Simple tips on growing berries, fruits, vegetables, landscaping the garden and many other topics can be found here on the Gardening Tips page.

• Mineral fertilizers should be applied to the soil in the doses indicated in the attached instructions. Since an excess of top dressing is harmful as well as their lack. First of all, this will adversely affect the health of those who will eat these vegetables.

• Pesticide. Special care must be taken when working with them. Be sure to wear gloves, a respirator, goggles, and cover your nose and mouth, at least with a gauze bandage. When work with pesticides is completed, you must thoroughly wash your hands and face, be sure to rinse your mouth. And it is better not to use pesticides unless absolutely necessary.

Watering. Tips for gardeners in the country.

• In a hot and dry period, if the soil dries up very much, in this case, it must first be sprinkled with water from a watering can or hose with a nozzle. And when the first moisture is absorbed into the soil, that's when you start watering the garden for real. At the same time, water will no longer flow like a stream from the garden into the furrow, but, being absorbed like a sponge, it will penetrate into the deeper layers of the earth.

• For better conservation of moisture in the soil, it is necessary to loosen the surface of the row-spacings on the ridges after watering. And if shoots have not yet appeared, it is recommended to water more often and in small portions.

You can dream up and be creative with some things that are idle in the garden. For example, old large barrels, if they are cut into 2 parts "along the equator", we get 2 containers without a bottom. Having dug these halves into the ground and planting them even with very simple bulbous flowers, which have long stems, we will get decorative decorations on the plot under the guise of palm trees.

Tree treatment.

To treat a small place of decay on a tree trunk, it is necessary to clean off the affected wood to a healthy layer. Then soak the area with 10% formalin solution. When the treated area is dried, then it is puttied and painted over.

WITH tips for gardeners on pollination methods.

In order to guarantee pollination of dioecious plants such as sea buckthorn, it is necessary in spring to cut off a flowering branch with anthers from a male plant, put it in a small bottle filled with water and then hang it on a branch of a bush of a female type of plant.

• When watering, when you stretch the hose along the beds or past the flower bed, it is easy to wrinkle or damage the plantings. To prevent this from happening, for example, use sticks that have horns on the end as simple hose stands.

• Growing vegetables is best done on a flat, without furrows, surface. In this case, the land will be used more fully, less time so precious in the spring will be spent on organizing beds, while the evaporation of moisture from the soil will decrease. Varieties of various vegetable crops should be chosen taking into account the timing of their maturation.

• Adult bushes of currant or gooseberry, having long branches and loosening the soil, top dressing is difficult without damaging the lower branches. Therefore, these branches should be lifted and placed on a stand, which can be made similar to a wooden yoke. Then you can work easier, and the bushes will be intact.

• Collect wood ash, it contains minerals that are so necessary for better development plants.

• Drinker for birds. In spring, birds have enough food. And how to make a simple drinker for birds? If you have a tank or tub under the drainpipe of your garden house, throw a small plank or piece of plywood into the water. From such a raft, it is easy for birds to drink, regardless of the water level in the tank.

• The last snow has come down, and the sun is already very warm, and the path in the garden is still not dry. Thoroughly rake its surface with a rake, and before your eyes the path will begin to dry out. First, the top of the soil loosened by lumps will be covered with light spots, and soon the entire surface will brighten.

Cut holes in a piece of rubber for the shackles of the padlock, and moisture will not get into it.

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I want to offer you some very useful tips.

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If you have your own garden, cottage, garden, then these helpful tips-for you! There may be some nuances that can harm trees, plants and vegetables, you don’t know. It seems to be small things ... but they can serve you well!

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- Lilac, rose, fir, barberry and black locust can inhibit the growth of neighboring trees, especially pear and apple trees.

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- If the site has a slope, then raspberries and others berry bushes it is not recommended to plant in its lower part. So you will ensure the outflow of cold air in the area.

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- Growing potatoes in apple-tree aisles can lead to the accumulation of toxins in the soil. First of all, apple trees will suffer from this.

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- Neighborhood of mountain ash with pear positively affects the growth and development of the latter.

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- Carefully inspect the trees before the onset of summer. If damage is found after frost, whiten the bases and trunks.

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- Geranium, planted next to raspberries and currants for the summer, repels aphids well.

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- Buying new seedlings, dip their roots in a mixture of clay and water, cover with a film or wrap in a cloth.

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- Fruit trees should be planted during the dormant period: in autumn - after shedding leaves and in spring - before buds appear. In the spring, it is recommended to do this when the earth has not yet warmed up.

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- Frequent, but superficial watering is harmful to plants. The damp surface of the earth stops the access of oxygen to the roots of plants. As a result, the water does not reach the required depth, and the roots do not feed on moisture.

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- Raspberries will take root well next to the apple tree. This arrangement protects the apple tree from scab, and the raspberry will not suffer from powdery mildew.

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- A gooseberry planted next to a pine tree not affected by powdery mildew.

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- To make the seeds germinate faster, soak them in "living water". Such water is obtained after heating to 90-100C, followed by cooling in a closed vessel.

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- Do not disregard even small wounds on trees! Clean each with a knife and paint over with paint. Superficial shallow wounds can be painted over without cleaning.

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- To get rid of the anthill, pour it with solution boric acid or boiling water, then cover with garlic cloves around the perimeter and sprinkle with salt.

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- If on the mouse area, use special seed bags. In order not to accidentally poison spring birds, cover these bags with boards.

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- Cherry gives good harvest if planted next to a cherry.

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- For carrots

In order not to attract a carrot fly when thinning carrots, you need to take a bucket of water and dilute 1 tablespoon of red or black ground pepper in it (enough for 10 sq.m). You do not need to insist, just sprinkle the carrots with infusion before thinning.
If you want to get a crop of good clean carrots (without any rot, infection, etc.), I advise you to definitely pour young plants with water (in a bucket) after the second thinning in early July with potassium permanganate diluted in it (3 g) and 2 - 3 g of boric acids. A bucket is enough for 3 - 4 square meters. m. Repeat the same procedure a second time in 20 days. The carrot will be clean. Do not forget to just pour the carrots with plain water before watering the solution.
So that carrots do not grow horned, do not crack, thin them out, leaving a distance of at least 4-5 cm between plants.

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- For beets

Beetroot is an unpretentious culture, but a few tips can be given. Many gardeners do not like large beets. If you want to get a smaller vegetable, plant not as usual plants at a distance of 8 - 10 cm in a row and 18 - 20 cm in row spacing, but reduce the distance between rows to 10 - 12 cm. Sowing beets directly into the ground, through seedlings (grown in a greenhouse ) gives better results.
When I plant seedlings in the ground (June 5-6), I always pinch it by a third or a quarter. Thus, the forces of the plant go to the “head”, and not to the root.
Beets, unlike carrots, love ash. Therefore, a couple of times during the season, add ashes under the beets. This helps to neutralize the soil, because beets do not tolerate acidic soils. You can even sprinkle lime under the plants to deoxidize.
To make the beetroot sweet, pour it twice with salt water (a spoonful of salt per bucket of water). The first watering is carried out when the root crop is just beginning to round, then 25 to 30 days before harvest.

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- For tomatoes

The greenhouse already has the first tier with tomatoes. So, be sure to tear off the leaf on the tomatoes before this first tier so that it does not take food from the fruit. You need to tear off the leaf as soon as small tomatoes appear - with a cherry, you don’t need to do this before: otherwise the ovaries will not be tied well.
These days, you need to properly feed the tomato with sodium humate - 10 g per 100 liters of water. Don't be afraid of sodium humate, it's organic fertilizer.
In greenhouses, tomatoes are worse tied, especially this hot summer. To speed up pollination, I advise you to knock on the stems of tomatoes, as I say to poke.
Very often, gardeners do not know which stepchildren to cut off and which to leave, and this is directly related to the harvest. Tip to remember: you need to leave only the first stepson that appears under (and not above) the first brush. Most gardeners do just the opposite and leave an upper, harmful stepchild that will bloom but not bear fruit. The remaining two trunks will make it possible to form a bush (sometimes it can be formed into 3 stems) with 4 - 5 tiers of tomatoes.

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Important detail: watering

Remember: you need to water the tomatoes not under the bush, but in the aisles. Under the bush, I water the tomatoes while they are small, and by June 10 - 12, when the bushes are completely covered, abundant watering is only between the rows. Tomatoes love infrequent, but it is abundant watering (1 time in 7 - 8 days). Moreover, the top of the hillock must remain dry - in this way, air through dry soil enters the roots. You can even mulch the top with chopped straw. And let the moisture come to the roots from the aisles. Explanation why: when we water a bush under the root, the water washes the root and the earth lags behind it. The root system again has to work, expend energy to "suck" the soil. In the grooves, wet soil, on the contrary, presses on the roots, presses down on the ground.

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Early since arrows

Many gardeners complain that the daikon or black radish shoots quickly. This can be avoided by planting black radish no earlier than July 5-10, and daikon no earlier than July 25.

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Garden strawberries need attention

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When it comes time to harvest strawberries from the beds, collect absolutely all the berries, and not just the beautiful and fully ripe ones. Even those that are rotten must not be left! After the strawberries bear fruit, also cut off all the tendrils, loosen the aisles, water and feed the plants (or mulch) with mullein.
You can also sprinkle the bushes with coniferous concentrate in order to scare away the strawberry weevil.
Removing flower stalks is the push of the plant to growth

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Vigilance is above all!

Unfortunately, the beloved month of July - the middle of summer, is characterized not only by heat, but also by hordes of pests: scoops, carrot and onion flies, powdery mildew and late blight.
Eggplant and peppers can start to eat aphids, mites and whiteflies. As soon as the rains begin, the slugs attack. That is why in July it is imperative to treat all plants at least for prevention, because it is much better to prevent the disease than to treat it later.

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Engage in soil preparation

It is in July that it is best to start harvesting land for the next season. You can prepare humus or river sand, which must be stored in a cool, warm place. From time to time you need to moisten and loosen the earth.

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We accelerate maturation

In order to speed up the ripening of vegetables, reduce the watering of tomatoes, onions, and garlic in June. This is what will accelerate the growth process, and so much so that you yourself will be surprised at the progress. The main thing is not to make the ground completely dry so that the seedlings do not die at all. For example, if you stop watering tomatoes and then flood them (or there is a heavy downpour), the fruits will crack and you will get a poor harvest in the end.

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Water with love

At the moment when roots begin to appear in the plant, watering is very important (carrots, beets, parsley, celery). If there is not enough moisture, then you will get a small crop.

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Iodine for better seed germination and plant protection

Cabbage suffers greatly from aphids. To prevent the appearance of this pest, treat the cabbage with laundry soap foam. And if aphids nevertheless appeared, then such a solution would be effective: half a liter of milk and 10 drops of iodine, mixed with 10 liters of water. Spray cabbage with this solution. And for better growth and protection from diseases, use a solution of iodine and water (40 drops per bucket of water). Pour a liter of this solution under each bush when the cabbage just forms a head.

Also, tomato seedlings are watered with a solution of iodine for faster growth (1 drop per three liters). After applying this solution, the seedlings will bloom faster, and the fruits will be larger. Can iodine protect tomatoes from late blight. To do this, you will need a few drops of iodine and 250 grams of milk, mix them with 1 liter of water.

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Hydrogen peroxide for fast seed germination

To do this, you will need a 4% hydrogen peroxide solution. You can soak the seeds of tomatoes, cabbage or beets in it. Just keep in mind that different seeds are soaked for different periods of time: cabbage - for 12 hours, tomatoes and beets - for 24 hours. You can use a more general solution, it is suitable for seeds of any crop: mix a tablespoon of a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution with half a liter of water. Just do not forget to rinse the seeds under running water after soaking and dry thoroughly. Hydrogen peroxide solution can be used to prevent tree diseases. For such purposes, peroxide and water are taken in a ratio of 1:32.

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Tea in the garden

To fertilize the garden, you can take used tea leaves (or coffee grounds). And also such tea leaves can be used so that the onion does not hurt. To do this, it is dried before planting onions, and then, when the onions are planted, they are placed under each bush.

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Salt for dressing

Salt is used for top dressing if there is not enough sodium in the ground. This is usually seen when the beets are planted, in which case the leaves turn red. To increase the sodium content, the beets are watered with saline (250 grams of coarse salt is diluted in 10 liters of water).

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USEFUL ADVICE OF EXPERIENCED GARDENERS Save so as not to lose! A GREAT NEIGHBOR… It has long been noticed that some plants influence others in a certain way. Many plants are able to protect each other. It is known that there are no pests on the lower branches of apple trees if dill, tomato and other phytoncidonosa grow nearby. In a garden where corn is planted between rows, there are fewer pests on crops. Cabbage, planted as a compactor on cucumber crops, is not affected by pests until harvesting, while there are many of them on pure cabbage beds, especially aphids. Also, cabbage can be planted together with tomatoes - through a row. There will be no caterpillars on the cabbage, and the tomato crop will be much higher. Widely known folk way growing onions mixed with carrots. In autumn, you will harvest a wonderful harvest of both crops. Many gardeners sow dill scattered around the garden. At one time, this technique was called ignorance. However, pests do not live in such "ignorance"! Amateur gardeners practice sowing onions in rows and between rows of strawberries. The leaves of these crops must be in contact, and tearing off the onion feathers on the greens increases the strength of the phytoncidal secretions. These two cultures perfectly disinfect each other. There should be a lot of onions so that the greens of both cultures are equally divided. On such plantations there is no gray rot even in wet summers. HELP THE APPLE TREES! All for the fight against apple codling moth! Attach a trapping belt to the tree trunk - spread universal glue from rats, mice and insects on paper and wrap around the tree. The darkness of any pests will stick. Hang a jar of diluted apple cider vinegar on a tree and see what a full house it will be! TOMATOES, TOMATOES ... Do you know that if you cut off the lower leaves of the seedlings, then it will not stretch and it will turn out strong and thick? Subsequently, when the tomato has already migrated to the garden, continue to cut off the lower leaves and your tomatoes will hardly get sick with late blight and other sores! By removing the lower leaves, you will not only protect the tomatoes from diseases, but also open up fresh air to the stems. Engage in pinching tomatoes once a season? How else is it possible! Contrary to the prevailing stereotype about newly emerging stepchildren, they need to be allowed to grow a little, and then break off so that a stump about 1 cm long remains. After such an execution, stepchildren do not appear again! But unusual, but very effective way fight late blight on tomatoes: pierce the stem of the tomato at the very bottom through with copper wire. Copper ions are carried throughout the plant and act on the fungus in the same way as spraying blue vitriol, plus they are not washed off by rains and when watering! Try to water the tomatoes with at least three days of diluted water, nettle tincture. Then they will be massive, friendly for the return of the crop and will hurt less. COTTAGE MAN TO THE COTTAGE MAN How not to lose where the seedlings are planted? Young plants are often confused with weeds and pulled out. Take a plastic bottle and cut rings from it about 4-5 cm wide. Stick these rings into the ground so that the seedlings are in the center. It is very convenient to plant this way, you will not forget where you planted something, because the seeds are very small, and they won’t even be washed away. To prevent the film on the shelter from flapping in the wind, tie in pairs plastic bottles and, having filled them with water (sand), throw them on top of the greenhouse according to the rocker principle. Presser Ready Removing the flowers from the potatoes allows you to increase the yield of tubers.

1. Damaged bark can be healed by wrapping the trunk with plastic wrap. Its main advantage is that it transmits sunlight and heat well and thus creates favorable conditions for wound healing. With the help of a film, even trees gnawed by hares and mice in winter and seemingly doomed to death can be saved.

2. a good scarecrow for birds, shiny (mirror) Christmas toys - balls, beads, garlands made of glass or foil can become. Obviously, the reflected sun rays blind the eyes of the birds, so they try to get away from the dangerous place. Toys can be hung separately on stakes (pieces of pipes) or on sticks attached to tree branches (15–20 cm above the crown). Paint stakes and pipes with bright colors of red, orange, yellow. In sunny weather and with light wind, the repelling effect is much higher.

3. Plant an apple tree and a raspberry next to each other so that their branches are in contact. Raspberries will protect the apple tree from scab, and the raspberry apple tree from gray rot. On the contrary, plant apple and cherry trees away from each other. The roots of these plants act on each other depressingly.

4. Take advantage of the fact that wild apple trees bloom earlier cultivars. Plant a wild game in your garden, and as soon as it blooms, weevils and sawflies will attack it. Carefully treat the damaged tree by destroying them.

5. To attract beneficial insects (trichogramma lays its eggs in the eggs of the codling moth), mustard, dill, phacelia, and parsley are sown in orchards. The smell of tansy, wormwood repels codling moth butterflies, and gardeners even tie these plants to apple tree branches. But all butterflies cannot be destroyed by these methods, therefore, 15–20 days after the flowering of the apple tree, they are sprayed with bacterial preparations that cause intestinal diseases in born caterpillars - bitoxy-banillin or dendrobacillin (50–80 g per 10 l of water).

6. When you work a lot in the garden or garden, your hands are washed with difficulty, the skin becomes rough. There is a good way to clean your hands: take a pinch of superphosphate (preferably granular) and wash your hands with it in cold water. Then rinse them warm water with soap, dry thoroughly and smear with glycerin, petroleum jelly or nourishing hand cream. You can rub your hands and sorrel leaves and then wash.

7. Dig on garden plot along the paths, a deep groove and strictly along the stretched cord, stick the bottles in a chain with their necks to each other at half their height. Get a beautiful durable side. They can also border a flower bed. You can stick a few empty bottles even along the edges of the beds so that the hose does not crush the plants during watering. Bottles can be taken substandard, which are not accepted.

8. Here's what you can do to protect fruit trees from pests. old tire from passenger car cut in half in a circle, get 2 rings. Cut them across in one place. They are placed under a tree so that the outer side is 1 cm higher than the soil, the inner one is at the level of the soil. Plain water is poured into the rings: water is an insurmountable obstacle for all crawling insects, including black ants. There is no need for trapping belts. In addition, it turns out an excellent drinking bowl for bees, wasps, small birds. If solutions of coniferous concentrate or wormwood or burdock are added to the rings, then this also repels flying insects. There is no need to use poisons.

9. Sometimes, when the fire does not want to flare up, firewood is doused with kerosene or, even more dangerous, with gasoline. But it is worth pouring a handful of ordinary table salt on coal or firewood, and the flame will begin to flare up.

10. Eggshell- Very valuable fertilizer containing, in addition to lime (calcium), which, as you know, lowers the acidity of the soil, microadditives of phosphorus, sulfur, magnesium. Experienced gardeners shells are collected, dried and passed through a meat grinder. The smaller the particles, the more effective their impact on the soil. Store shell powder in paper bags.

11. The tread from worn car tires makes good, almost eternal paths in the garden. It is necessary to cut off the sidewalls of the tires and cut the resulting ring. Remember to make a series of notches two-thirds deep on the inside of the tire to keep the tape from curling. The width and length of the track depends on the tire size, they can also be doubled to increase the width of the track. Tires with a diamond pattern from trucks are well suited.

12. It is more convenient to paint a chain-link fence together on both sides, touching with brushes. This reduces paint consumption and leaves no unpainted areas.

13. With cords cut from a stocking, you can securely tie everything that needs to be tied up. And large plants and trees - a whole stocking. Kapron does not rot, does not sag - it serves for years.

14. Paint the cuttings garden tools, especially small hoes, rakes, etc., in bright colors. Preferably with oil paint. Then you do not have to run around the site and look for where you forgot your chopper or shovel.