If your garden plot floods in the spring, there is nothing to be particularly happy about. The flood washes away the beds, the water washes away nutrients from the soil, and some crops die altogether.
If you are unlucky and the site is located in a flood zone, then all that remains is to minimize the consequences of the flood.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told how to protect a vegetable garden from flooding and soil devastation.
Advice for summer residents
1. Beds, flower beds, and greenhouses are made high or raised.
2. You can keep the soil from eroding using curb tape, wattle fences, and other decorative fences, including those made of natural stone.
3. Along the edge of the flowerbed, you can plant creeping plants such as periwinkle, loosestrife, sedum, etc.
What to do with trees
Preference should be given to trees that are resistant to flooding.
Among the ornamental trees, even high groundwater levels can be easily tolerated by the river maple and box elder, all willows, ash, birch, and among the conifers, spruce, fir, and alder.
From the lilac bushes.
As for fruit trees, in such a situation you can plant sea buckthorn and hawthorn.
Apple trees are planted on dwarf rootstock, and pear trees on quince rootstock. Plum, cherry, cherry plum and walnut are also planted.
Earlier we talked about how to properly water seedlings .
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
