Gardeners are offered a variety of options to choose from to restore the fertile soil layer after harvesting.
These can be mineral or organic fertilizers, sowing green manure, or using folk recipes.
This is what summer residents are offered to use instead of manure and compost.
Lifehacks with straw
According to experienced gardeners, you can fertilize your beds using straw.
Supposedly, it can replace manure, compost and sowing green manure with subsequent burying of seedlings into the soil.
The developers of the concept themselves refer to the conclusions of biologists, who in turn call straw the best means for restoring the soil.
In the soil, straw has a positive effect on the microorganisms living in it, which contributes to the formation of the necessary biohumus in the fertile layer.
Moreover, the effect of adding straw to the soil is long-term and will be felt for five years.
How to proceed
For convenience, the straw needs to be chopped, then distributed evenly over the beds and left for several days.
Along with the straw, don’t forget to add urea, say gardeners, and then the harvest in the new season will be unprecedented.
However, experts warn that in most cases, folk methods do not fully compensate for the lack of nutrients.
