Potatoes branches to be buried

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This year the potatoes were not watered. The weather was very rainy, and too much water does not favor a large production of potatoes, in addition of being smaller than in previous years. After potatoes uprooted from the land, they were left a day in the sun to dry. The next day they were collected, cleaned and stored in a clean and no light environment, while the branches remained on the surface of the ground to be buried in the future.

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Broad beans best fixing nitrogen plant

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Broad beans is the best fixing plant of nitrogen because it fixes the nitrogen from air into their roots. Plants need nitrogen and much of them are not that really good nitrogen fixing plants, so the farmer needs to give nitrogen to their roots. You will enrich the soil it you bury the board beans plant after the harvest to recover the levels of nitrogen. Culture after culture the soil will need more nitrogen so it is better if we rotate between a culture of board beans and a culture of plants which needs much nitrogen. You will enrich the soil and it will thank you for that.

Tomatoes beds

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There are two ways to get the tomato plants needed for planting: acquire in any store dealing with farming products and usually are already highly developed, bringing the roots wrapped in a piece of substrate which doesn't interrupt the development process for being transplanted, or alternatively, you can acquire initially seeds, which are also available in these establishments, in small packages, which can be seen the reference range and the description of their characteristics.

Small tomato seeds, also can be obtained, if desired, from some previously selected tomatoes, leaving them ripen until they are soft, juicy and red. Faced with the possibility of inclement weather will be advisable to harvest them, to avoid rot because of the rain and leave them a few more days in a dry and airy environment so that the maturation process is completed fully, but only if it is quite mature already. Next, cut them to remove the tomatoes pulp which lodges the seeds, spread it on a plain place, allowing it to dry in the sun, one or two weeks or in a dry and ventilated place, then keep it in a dry closed container.

Seeding the beds of tomatoes, the sooner it are done, the sooner the plants will be available for planting, usually they're done at the beginning of February to be available for transplant at the beginning or at the middle of March, and we can make a small bed rich of substrate moistened with a little water on a sheltered location with good sun exposure or using a small box-shaped tray made of styrofoam, because the thermal properties of this material, by covering with a little plastic allows to develop a greenhouse while maintaining a temperature inside, which it's an advantage to adequate germination and plant growth.

Planting lettuce

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The planting of lettuce can be done throughout the year. Its seeds, because they are too small, can be mixed with fine sand and spread best if sowing in beds.

The germination takes 4 to 6 days. The lettuce prefers sandy-clay soils, rich in organic matter. When they are 6 to 8 leaves and 8 to 10 cm, they must be transferes to well fertilized plots, so that the plant keep the neck above the ground and distance between plants of 30 cm. Only the seedlings more developed, strong and healthy should be planted . Another important is that we must be careful is to plant the seedlings with roots tangled or bent and they should not be planted too deep.

The fertilization of the beds can be made ​​only with organic fertilizer, which is made with animal manure. When the bed is ready, we put a layer of manure evenly distributed over the surface, on the basis of 20 liters per square meter, spread it well and mix it at the surface layer of the soil, leaving her in planting conditions. To prevent the lowering of the land due to irrigation and rain, the soil should be slightly compressed, avoiding the vegetables from having their roots out of the ground.

The crop must be be cleaned, watered and irrigated as needed. All weeds that grow between the vegetables should be torn with their roots, with one hand or a hoe. This is necessary because they compete with the planting, stealing nutrients from the fertilizer and shading, avoiding vegetables receiving the amount of sun required.

Organic fertilizer

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The soil organic matter results mainly from vegetable waste, although the animal remains contribute significantly in its composition. Thus cattle, microorganisms from the terrain, insects and man himself, directly or indirectly, participate in the decomposition of plant residues and their distribution through the layers of soil. For this and other reasons, we find plots with different levels of organic matter. These levels reach the maximum in peaty soils and down to the minimum value in desert soils. Manure is what is most precious on a farm.

Our garden is very well fed with organic fertilizer, most of it is manure. It is bought always in the same place because we trust on that person. It is important that the manure is of good quality to avoid diseases and have a good harvest. It comes always with many earthworms which is very good for your soil, a soil with earthworms means it has life and it breaths. Only one thing the seller told us, is that there are some plant roots inside the manure which are bad for the soil. That is because that kind of plant roots are not digested by the animals. To solve that problem, while we distribute the manure on the garden we are checking for the roots and we take them off and leave it in the garbage because it's not useful even for waste compound.

Preparing potatoes for seed

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Potatoes are tubers developed after sown mature potatoes.They're called stem tubers because tops or sides of the tuber produce shoots that grow into typical stems and leaves and the under sides produce roots. If the mature potato produces with more than one shoot it can be separated into pieces, each piece may be able to give rise to a new plant. The mature potato is used as storage for starches, proteins, and other nutrients by the plant. These nutrients become useful for the plant when new shoots must be formed or when the plant dies back for the winter. This is a process known as vegetative reproduction and is used by farmers and gardeners to propagate certain plants. The mature potatoes are first prepared before going under soil. They're placed in dry and light environment to germinate previously. After germinate the ones which have more then two shoots and they're big enough are separated. The reason why it's better they have to be big to be separated is because they have to handle some cold when they're seed at the end of winter.