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  1. Ilona BOLOTINA, Smolensk

    After a damp summer, it is very difficult to preserve carrots. Root crops rot as soon as they reach the cellar. A couple of years ago, my mother-in-law recommended that I spill the spruce sawdust with a pink solution of potassium permanganate. Dry them thoroughly on film and mix with chopped dry garlic peels (1 tbsp per bucket of sawdust). Place the carrots in plastic boxes, sprinkling them generously with this mixture.

    I did everything as I was advised. The result was excellent: the carrots not only did not rot, but did not even begin to grow roots and did not lose their taste.

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      In fact, garlic peels can be used for more than just storing carrots. It has even more ways to use than onion.
      Add a handful of crushed garlic peel to a liter jar of whitewash for trees and wooden parts of the greenhouse and greenhouse - this will save the garden and greenhouses from fungal diseases.
      In winter, collect the husks. And in the summer, mix 150 g of garlic and onion peels, pour 9 liters of boiling water. Leave for 3 days, strain. Once a week, spray the plants in the garden with the infusion against aphids, ticks, and copperheads. Store the remaining composition in dark PET bottles in the cellar.
      When planting seedlings, throw a handful of garlic peels into each hole. This will protect the plants from root rot.
      Alexander ABUSHKEVICH, agronomist, Gorki

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  2. Leonid Polyakov, Smolensk

    Our soil is very dense, everyone advises adding sand, but there is none. But there is access to a sawmill and sawdust. Is it possible to bring them in for digging in the fall? In what quantity? Do I need to add anything to them?

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      — Recently, recommendations on the use of sawdust in summer cottages and garden plots have begun to appear in the specialized literature. This is primarily a material that significantly improves the agrophysical properties of the soil. To be fair, it is worth noting that large greenhouse plants have been using sawdust for a long time as a loosening material. However, when they are introduced into the soil, its fertility can be sharply reduced, because the bacteria that decompose the sawdust will begin to absorb nitrogen from the soil. The amount of nitrogen in the soil will be reduced so much that there simply won’t be enough for the planted plants. It is also necessary to take into account that the constant use of fresh sawdust in large quantities will make the soil more acidic. Therefore, before applying they need to be specially prepared. There are two ways.

      1. Enrich sawdust with mineral nutrients. You should spill them with a solution of mineral fertilizers (dilute 40 g of ammonium nitrate in 10 liters of water - this is enough for 3 buckets of sawdust). It is better to add sawdust processed by this method at the end of summer to previously limed soil (if the soil is not limed, add 150 g of lime per bucket of sawdust).
      2. Place sawdust in compost. This is a more efficient way to use sawdust. Such compost significantly improves the structure of the soil, making it air and water permeable. It should be added to the soil in an amount of 5-6 kg per 1 sq.m.

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  3. Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

    sawdust on the ridges

    It is believed that fresh sawdust cannot be used for mulching, since when they decompose they take a lot of nitrogen from the ground. My experience proves that this is not entirely true, only they should be applied correctly.
    Sawdust mulch dampens weeds and retains moisture in the soil. In addition, in the process of decay, a lot of useful substances get into it. Only sawdust should be laid out in ridges after the soil warms up well, and the seedlings gain strength. And the thicker their layer, the better.

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  4. Irina Gurieva, Ph.D. corp. FNTS them. Michurin

    Sawdust increases yield

    Far from every site the soil is loose and nutritious. How to fix the situation? It is enough to add river sand or sawdust.
    Both options are good, but sawdust is easier to get. They not only loosen the earth, but also improve its air exchange, moisture saturation. And if in the spring you mulch the area with a sawdust layer of 5-6 cm, then at times reduce the weeding and forget what the after-irrigation crust is.
    It is important to use rotted sawdust: fresh can acidify the soil, and they will absorb a lot of nitrogen. If you still have fresh sawdust, be sure to combine it with any nitrogen fertilizer.
    It is recommended to introduce sawdust into the ground (2-3 buckets per 10 sq.m) once every 2 years. This technique will not only improve the substrate, but also have a positive effect on plant immunity, as well as on productivity.

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  5. Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

    Sawdust: HARM AND BENEFITS
    Many gardeners and gardeners use sawdust as fertilizer. But here's the problem: instead of the expected benefits, they often do harm - the soil becomes infertile. What is the reason?
    The fact is that the microorganisms that decompose sawdust absorb the nitrogen reserves contained in the soil, thereby impoverishing it. After that, the land becomes unsuitable for sowing and planting for a long time.
    Sawdust can be a truly miraculous remedy, especially on heavy clay and sandy soils, if they are pre-treated with a solution of mineral or organic fertilizers. In 10 liters of water, it is necessary to dissolve 150 g of superphosphate, 100 g of ammonium nitrate and 50 g of potassium chloride. Spill sawdust with this solution.

    Sawdust can also be composted by laying it in layers with fresh manure. Sawdust used as bedding in animals does not need preliminary preparation.

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  6. Julia

    DIY sawdust rug
    Since we have a small area, we try to save space in many ways that we have come up with. For example, we plant sweet peppers between rows of radishes. The radish grew quickly, we pulled it out, and the pepper continues to grow as if nothing had happened.
    We grow very tasty and large strawberries, but you must admit that picking dirty berries is not very pleasant. Therefore, we fill the aisles with sawdust. Even after rain, the berries remain clean and attractive.

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  7. Nikolai Kushcha, Aleksin

    We have very dense soil. After rain or watering, a hard crust appears that is difficult to break. Vegetables don't grow well. I can’t buy enough sand: it’s very expensive. And my friends have their own sawmill. They offered to take sawdust from them (mainly from coniferous trees). Is it possible to improve the structure of the soil with sawdust? How to do it right?

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      Wood sawdust is a good baking powder. They can be applied in two ways.
      Lay the sawdust in the compost, and after two or three years, add to the site at the rate of 3-4 buckets per 1 sq.m. sawdust mixed with 0,5 kg of limestone flour. After 2-3 weeks, sprinkle ammonium nitrate over the area (1 tbsp per 1 sq.m) and bury it in the ground. This will provide nutrition for microorganisms that will decompose sawdust, and the fertility of the earth will not deteriorate. If these operations are not done, the plants will grow even worse than before.
      If you want to get a tangible result sooner, add 1-3 buckets of fresh
      TIP: Even if you apply composted (so-called fermented) sawdust, it is advisable to lime the soil and add nitrogen-containing fertilizers.

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  8. Andrey Gavrilov, Smolensk

    For several years I have been mulching my garden with sawdust. The earth has become looser. However, this summer I noticed that horsetail, buttercup, horse sorrel appeared on the site, and red streaks formed on the beet leaves. I read that this may be due to the increased acidity of the soil, and over time, many plants on the site will grow worse. Is it possible to do something so as not to give up sawdust, but at the same time not harm the garden?

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      - Indeed, over time, fresh sawdust can not only acidify the soil, but also draw out the nitrogen necessary for plants from it. To avoid this, ferment the sawdust. It is advisable to do this during the warm season. But in winter, you can prepare sawdust for the next season. To do this, you will have to give them a place in a warm room.
      There are different cooking methods. I usually use this on my site.

      I mix sawdust with dolomite flour (5: 1) and spill abundantly with a solution of urea (2-3 tablespoons per 10 liters of water). Once a month I shovel a pile and add a little fresh manure (about a bucket per 1 cubic meter). Once a week or two I water it with water and kitchen waste. After a year, the sawdust is ready for use, it turns black and friable.

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  9. Anton Sokolov

    We've got a lot of sawdust. We want to use them as a baking powder for the beds, but they acidify the soil. Maybe they should be mixed with chalk right away? Or somehow still deacidify?

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      - Sawdust is an organic fertilizer and loosen up heavy soils well, but there are several points to consider when using them.

      When introducing this baking powder, it is necessary to lime the earth at the rate of at least 100 g of dolomite flour per 1 sq. M (it is possible with chalk or ash). In addition, when sawdust decomposes in the soil, a nitrogen deficiency is created, which must be replenished with mineral fertilizers. One of the most affordable nitrogen fertilizers is ammonium nitrate. It must be scattered over the surface of the soil (1-2 tbsp. Per 1 sq. M) after adding sawdust. This is a dose without taking into account those fertilizers that are usually applied under the plants (that is, additional).
      In general, it is better to compost fresh sawdust by adding mineral fertilizers, manure or bird droppings to them. In 2-3 years, they will turn into excellent compost, which can be applied to the soil without fear (both on individual sites and in the furrows of the ridges).

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  10. Evgeny CHROMOV

    To play with sawdust

    I use sawdust for mulching the garden. This is not only convenient, but also useful, because they make the earth looser. However, there are nuances - sawdust acidifies the soil and takes nitrogen out of it. Therefore, before mulching vegetables with sawdust, I process them with such a solution.

    I breed 4-5 tablespoons in a bucket of water. urea, 2 tbsp. superphosphate and 1 tbsp. potassium sulfate. I pour 3 buckets of sawdust into the old bathtub and fill it with the prepared composition. I insist at least a month.
    Once every 3 years, a lime plot is obligatory - I put in a half-liter can of chalk or dolomite flour per 1 sq. M.

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  11. Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

    I have long been made high beds, and between them are fresh sawdust, since we live in a swampy area. Every year I buy two machines of sawdust - this has been going on for 20 years. Two years ago, I updated the beds, made the sides from old slate. I put the rotted sawdust from the aisles on the beds, then a layer of rabbit manure with hay, and on top of the earth.

    I did everything in late autumn. In the passages, which were too deep, I threw all kinds of vegetable trash, and in the spring I covered them with sawdust.
    I have ridges of different lengths and widths, row spacing of about 30 cm. They are located from west to east, as we have prevailing westerly and southerly winds. There are two 70 cm wide trolley passages for transporting soil and manure.
    Sawdust is three times cheaper than land and manure, and the benefits are enormous. No grass grows on the paths, and there are always clean berries in the strawberry beds.

    Sprinkled with a thick layer of sawdust and raspberries. I also add it during the autumn digging of the beds. Sawdust in bags is in my barn in winter and is used to care for rabbits and poultry.

    This year I will put sawdust in sugar bags mixed with urea - then I will gradually add it to greenhouses. So that the sawdust completely decays and does not take nitrogen from the soil, in the fall I sprinkle abundantly with urea on the beds, raspberries, currant bushes, berry fields. In autumn, because the spring melt water will help the urea penetrate deep into the sawdust and the earth will become crumbly.

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  12. Ekaterina Gorets, Bryansk

    It is often written that almost all plants in a greenhouse can be mulched with sawdust. But it is advised to use fermented ones. We bought a whole car of ordinary sawdust. How to ferment them? Maybe you need to spill something? Where to store it?

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      - It is better to use rotted sawdust as mulch, since fresh, decomposing, absorb a huge amount of nitrogen and thus deprive the soil of this element, lead to its acidification.
      To ferment sawdust, fill a plastic barrel halfway with water, add 1 tbsp. urea and add as much sawdust as will fit. Leave the barrel open for 14-15 days. Stir daily.
      If there is no barrel, pour a layer of sawdust into a spacious garbage bag, add 1 tsp. urea, then - the next layer, again urea, and so on in layers to the top of the bag. Expose the filled bag to the sun and keep the sawdust moist. They can be used for mulching after 20 days.
      Store fermented sawdust in plastic-covered wooden boxes in a shaded area.

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  13. Valentina Stararova

    In the fall, a huge old apricot was cut down outside the house, and a lot of sawdust remained on the lawn in front of the flower garden. I am wary of using fresh ones, and my husband took and sprinkled some of the rose bushes with them - over a cover of foliage, marigold stalks and nasturtium.

    The weather in winter was unstable, mainly with freezing temperatures, rains, so the sawdust near the bushes had to be periodically covered with agrofibre. Otherwise, being saturated with rainwater, they would freeze into an ice ball and contribute to the death of plants. In the spring, after the snow melted, she immediately freed the roses from their shelter to prevent rotting of the lower part of the bushes. The soil was spilled with a solution of nitroammofoska (1 tbsp. L / 10 l of water).

    BTW
    Part of the sawdust was used to distinguish between the flower garden and the lawn. I made a strip-recess, which I covered tightly with them, tamped it well - it turned out aesthetically pleasing.

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  14. Olga Karataeva, Kryvyi Rih

    We recently got chicken droppings mixed with fine sawdust. We want to scatter it in the garden under berry bushes in the spring before plowing. But we doubt: is sawdust useful for the earth?

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      - A lot of controversy among summer residents cause sawdust as fertilizer. In fact, they can be both good and bad. In the first case, by re-heating, sawdust enrich the soil with humus, and in heavy areas make it looser, more breathable.

      But! Pure sawdust is not a fertilizer. They absorb minerals from the soil, and the soil is depleted. Nitrogen is drawn from the fertile layer, which is necessary for the life of the microorganism. True, you got a mixture of sawdust and chicken manure, and the latter is usually rich in nitrogen.
      In general, the impact on the land and fertilized crops will depend on the ratio of manure to sawdust. But given that fresh sawdust acidifies the soil, when adding the mixture to the soil, add also ash (about 1 tbsp. Per 1 sq. M).

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  15. Vladimir KRYLOVICH, farmer, Dzerzhinsky district

    DIY fertilizer from sawdust
    For the summer resident, the question is always acute where to get manure for fertilizer. I partially solve this problem using wood sawdust, but not fresh. In fresh sawdust, the bacteria that decompose them take food from the soil, depleting it.

    And so that sawdust becomes fertilizer, I make compost from them: add 1 kg of sawdust 2,5 kg of urea diluted in 15 buckets of water. I moisten the heap with a solution and cover it with a film. Every two weeks I shovel the sawdust or loosen the cultivator. After a month and a half, sawdust blackens - and they can be used as fertilizer.

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  16. Andrey Gavrilyuk

    Perfect Sawdust Mulch
    Is it possible to ferment sawdust during the winter to mulch the plot with them in the summer without fear of acidifying the soil?

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      - It is advisable to carry out the fermentation of sawdust in the warm season. In winter, this process will have to take a place in a warm room. There are two popular methods - with and without air access. At their site, I usually resort to a combination of these options.
      I mix the sawdust with dolomite flour (5: 1) and pour it with a urea solution (2-3 tbsp. Per yul of water). I shovel a bunch once a month. If available, add fresh manure. I regularly water with kitchen waste. After a year, the sawdust is ready for use, becoming black and loose.

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  17. Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

    How can wood sawdust be used in a summer cottage? As a fertilizer? Mulch? Maybe something else? I have a lot of them, but I don’t know how to use them for good. Alexander Ivanovich

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      Sawdust can be used as mulch, shelter for the winter. Mulch from sawdust during the growing season will help reduce the number of weeds, will not allow the soil to overheat in the heat, save soil moisture and prevent it from drying out too much.
      In the autumn season, sawdust can be applied under trees and bushes, distributed evenly to protect the roots from freezing.
      It is only necessary to take into account that sawdust, decomposing, can acidify the soil, so its acidity must be monitored.

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