Take care of a good potato harvest on your plot, and green manure will help you with this.
Annuals are grown in the garden to enrich and improve the quality of the soil.
What do green manures give to the soil?
- reduce soil acidity;
- saturate the soil with useful substances;
- help in the fight against pests and weeds;
- make the soil loose.
When to sow green manure under potatoes
Choose early spring, when the soil has warmed up to 4-6 cm. Green manure is sown at a rate of 2 kg of green manure per 100 m2.
Mown green manure is plowed 2 weeks before planting the seed material. In heavy soil, green manure is plowed to 8 cm, in light soil - up to 12-16 cm.
Planting potatoes for green manure
Potatoes are planted in soil enriched with green manure no deeper than 5-6 cm.
After planting, potatoes are fed according to established rules.
How to protect potatoes with green manure
Between the rows of potatoes you can plant mustard, which will loosen the soil, repel pests and prevent weeds from growing.
