Whatever plants you planted in your garden or garden, they certainly need feeding and fertilizer. Otherwise, a good harvest is not achieved. Today, the fertilizer market is represented by the broadest assortment for all types of plants and for any purse. However, gardeners and gardeners often prefer to fertilize their plots in the old manner - with manure. And the horse defecate is becoming more and more popular. It is rightfully considered to be the most useful and effective organic. What is the use of horse manure as fertilizer and how to use it correctly, read below.
What is so useful horse manure
Horse feces are very rich in composition, they contain nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, calcium and other organic substances. All of this in the complex as a powerful catalyst affects vegetation growth and soil yield. Hot discussions about the advisability of using horse manure as fertilizer are quite often found on blogs and on forums of horticultural websites. Some people make fun of this method, arguing that you can not worry too much, do not suffer from unpleasant odors and buy normal bait in stores. Others talk about the miraculous results of the systematic use of this organic matter at their dachas.
Whatever it was, but the benefits of horse manure for the garden and garden are proven by many years of use in the agricultural and agricultural industries: its use helps to achieve higher yields of garden and garden crops, increasing their resistance to diseases and negative external factors.
Horse manure has great advantages over other types of organic fertilizers (for example, mullein, pork, chicken, goat manure) - it is lighter, drier, and rapidly decomposes. It warms up better (burning temperature is 70-80 ºС) and gives off heat faster, while it cools more slowly (it is able to hold heat for two months). In addition, it is practically not affected by pathogenic microflora.
If horse humus is used as a fertilizer for the soil, then it can be achieved with greater fertility. It loosens the soil well and does not contribute to its acidification, saturates with carbon dioxide, maintains normal air, heat and water balance, replenishes nutrient reserves. No other fertilizers and fertilizing can have such a unique effect.
Horse Manure Types
Horse manure as a fertilizer has been used in various forms, depending on the degree of decomposition: fresh, semi-reabsorbed, pererevshim, in the state of humus. Consider the advantages of each of them.
Fresh
For soil fertilizer most often use fresh manure. It produces more heat and nitrogen. It is necessary to understand that fresh humus is dangerous for plants, because it can burn their roots. Therefore, the best time when you can fertilize the earth with horse manure is autumn, after digging the vegetable garden. After all, if you make it before the onset of winter, then by the spring planting he will have time to decompose and will go greenery only benefit.
Did you know? The freshness of the manure can be easily determined by eye. In young organics, straw and sawdust of a characteristic color and structure are very clearly visible. With mature manure over time, the organic composition becomes darker and less distinct in structure.In the spring, fresh horse calories are used as biofuels in greenhouses and greenhouses, arranging warm beds and mounds for growing cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkins. It is allowed to make it for early potatoes and other crops that have a long growing season. When feeding, compounds with other organic fertilizers are possible. Manure can be composted with peat, sawdust, grass, old leaves, straw. The best compost is considered a mixture with peat. The most affordable option is the straw. The worst in quality is dung with added sawdust.
Also, fresh manure is used to prepare a liquid feed.
Half broken
The remains of organic matter in the excrement of this species is dark brown and can easily lose its structure. Garden crops (zucchini, cabbage, cucumbers) and flowers are fed by half-dung manure. Use it in a semi-liquid form when digging. In the second year after fertilizer, it is good to plant potatoes, carrots, beets, tomatoes, and strawberries in such a plot. Suitable for mulching roses.
Good swelled
Dead manure is a uniform black mass. It is half lighter than fresh. This organic fertilizer soil and used as a substrate for seedlings in proportion: 2 parts of the earth to 1 part of the land. Used for fertilizing tomatoes, early potatoes, garden flowers and fruit trees.
Humus
Humus - this is the last stage of decomposition of horse defecation, in this form of organic matter is the most useful and has been used as a feed for absolutely all garden and garden crops and flowers.
Did you know? In addition to the fact that in the soil fertilized with humus, plants accelerate their growth, many root vegetables have improved taste. For example, in radish and onion bitterness goes away.Humus is brought under fruit trees (up to five buckets), berry crops, used for mulching.
How to fertilize plants with horse manure
Horse name can be used to fertilize most plants and soils. We picked up a few general tips on how to properly apply manure to the ground.
General information
For fertilizer garden in autumn, after harvesting, fresh manure is laid with a layer of 50 cm. From above it is covered with a layer of straw and covered with 30-35 cm thick earth. It is important not to overdo it. Norm - 600-800 g per 100 sq. M. m; if compost is used, then - 100-200 g per 100 sq. m. m
Important! It is necessary to plow a vegetable garden immediately after spreading the manure in order to avoid the loss of nitrogen that is able to evaporate quickly. For the same reason, plant plants and fertilize better in one day.In spring, the use of fresh land is possible only for crops with a long period of growth and development (potatoes, cabbage).
With the spring organization of the greenhouse manure is laid a layer of 20-30 cm under the soil. The rate of addition is 4-6 kg per 1 sq. Km. m of land. It is desirable to carry out soil disinfection with a weak solution of potassium permanganate. The beds are covered with polyethylene for two days, after which you can start planting seeds.
For the preparation of liquid dressing adhere to such proportions: in 10 l of water mix 2 kg of manure, 1 kg of sawdust and insist for two weeks, stirring regularly, and then diluted with water 1: 6. Also for irrigation under the root, you can use a solution of 1 kg of manure in 10 liters of water.
Fertilizer for potatoes
Horse manure is ideal for potatoes. Fresh name is better to make the plot where you plan to plant potatoes in the fall. Although gardeners are more and more inclined to use for feeding half-burnt potato manure.
Since the growth and development of tubers takes a long time, horse droppings are allowed in the spring (5 kg per 1 sq. M). Sometimes manure is poured right into the hole where the potatoes are planted, mixing it with the ground. It is noticed that at the same time larger fruits grow.
Important! In one 10-liter bucket fits 7.5 kg of manure and 5 kg of manure with sawdust.
How to fertilize roses horse manure
Fresh name recommended for dressing roses. Fertilize bushes in the fall, while spuding them. So in the spring all the necessary nutrients will come to the plants. Re-fertilize roses can be during flowering.
Fertilizer berries
Horse feces are well suited for feeding and planting berry crops, in particular, strawberries and strawberries. Feeding is produced with a solution prepared from 1 part of manure and 10 parts of water. Before use, the mixture is infused for 24 hours.
For planting berries, it is necessary to use dry horse manure, its application is simple - three buckets are put in advance on the beds. Also with the help of a compost of horse land, straw and leaves, you can mulch between rows of raspberries, strawberries and strawberries, laying a layer of 5-10 cm thick.
How to store horse manure
In order to preserve as much useful substances as possible in manure, you need to know how to properly preserve it. There are two ways to store horse excrement: cold and hot. Let's get acquainted with the details of each of them.
Cool way
It is preferable to keep manure cold. So he will lose less nitrogen and will not overheat. It is very important to properly stack with minimal oxygen supply. To stack the piles, it is necessary to choose the appropriate place - dig a hole or build a barrier. Straw, peat, hay, sawdust with a layer of 20-30 cm are poured on the bottom of the allotted platform, then manure is placed 13-15 cm high and 1.5-2 m wide. There can be several layers up to a height of 1.5 m. For the winter, you can cover it with foil. During storage, it is necessary to ensure that the name does not become overwetted and overdry.
Did you know? To save yourself from the hassle of finding a place to store, you can purchase packaged manure in specialized stores. Today, manufacturers provide liquid manure concentrate and manure in granules.
Hot way
With the hot method, manure is kept loose in heaps. Air easily penetrates into it, which provokes the active growth of microflora. After six months of such storage, we lose more than half of our mass and the same amount of nitrogen.
When to use manure as a fertilizer is not recommended
Despite the solid advantages of the horse farm, There are several rules when applying this organic is not worth it. Here are the main ones:
if there is plaque of fungal origin on the land, it loses its ability to warm up and is not suitable for use in greenhouses;- if there is a dense soil in the greenhouse - due to the slow decomposition in this type of soil, the released methane and hydrogen sulfide will adversely affect the plant roots;
- be careful to put in the hole with potatoes - scab infection is possible.
if there is plaque of fungal origin on the land, it loses its ability to warm up and is not suitable for use in greenhouses;Use it on your site or not, you decide. Just as you choose how you will get it - you will collect and store it yourself or purchase it in store packages.
