This article will focus on a simple and at the same time surprisingly effective way to increase the fertility and return of land. Read about how beneficial and beneficial the soil for spring rye sowing and how it is carried out, read below.
This type of cereal perfectly adapts to the proposed growing conditions. Rye can grow even on sparse soils, because it is undemanding to nutrients and is adapted to assimilate hard-to-reach soil compounds. Having developed to a powerful tillering node, it becomes more resistant to adverse conditions than wheat.
Spring sowing of rye to obtain
green fertilizer contributes to the accumulation of dew, moistening the soil, loosening, warming, increasing the amount of nitrogen in the soil, accelerating the decomposition process, and increasing humus.
If we compare the green mass with manure in terms of utility, then the first (no matter how strange this statement may seem) is much more useful. Its advantages are faster decomposition and better humus. Nitrogen compounds of green mass are better absorbed by plants planted after digging rye.
Spring rye sowing is also very beneficial for those who contain birds (ducks, chickens, geese). Their walking in the field during the ripening of grain allows you to kill at least three birds with one stone: living creatures with pleasure feed on grain on the field, rapidly gaining weight and additionally fertilizing the earth with their vital products, and the farmer can only smell plant debris.
The crops planted on this site are much better developed, give higher yields and are not so overgrown with weeds. By the way, the spring sowing of
winter rye allows you to get good grain crops. As an experiment, as early as the middle of the 20th century, experimental crops were carried out on Novgorod lands, on the soils of Ukraine and in Kazakhstan. The result was surprising: from 200 to 300 centners per hectare were collected.
The article by
S. Bagrov talks about a similar experience conducted earlier by Ukrainian peasants resettled in the Vologda Territory. The question was about survival, so they decided to sow rye not in the autumn, but in the spring, in May, and harvest - in August next year. Thanks to this technological method alone, it was possible to get more than 60 centners per hectare from badlands: “A cloud of clouds stood as a rye, ears were twice as long as usual and grain was much larger ...”
Spring
sowing of rye gives impetus to the formation of a powerful root system, to increased tillering (from 25 to 50 shoots) and enhanced growth of shoots (up to 70 cm). No additional costs for fertilizer. Only the timing of sowing rye changes. According to popular beliefs (the wisdom of generations), the best time for autumn sowing of this type of cereal is Nikitin's day, which falls on August 25, and for spring sowing, you must wait for Lukerya Komarnitsa (May 26). The appearance of bloodsuckers suggests that frost can no longer be afraid, and the earth warmed up enough.
Rye for sowing is selected sorted, with a purity higher than 96%, always with high germination. The sowing depth is 4-6 cm (depending on the speed of soil drying).