White mustard

Mustard is favorite green manure. It is able to replace fungicides, insecticides, to free you from time-consuming digging of the earth, and the area — from the many weeds. And all because mustard has unique properties that have already discovered many gardeners.

She has white seeds and the flowers yellow.

Earliness and cold resistance allow mustard to grow in the spring, before the heat-loving crops, and in late summer — autumn, after harvesting the early vegetables. Mown before flowering, they quickly decompose and become humus — the food for plants. Roots thin and fibrous, leave them in the ground. Penetrating the top layer like the capillaries, they make the soil permeable, friable.

Mustard sown densely and very early spring, is a strong competitor for weeds that are just starting to break out of the earth.

She is jamming their large leaves and succulent stems, giving way to the sun, taking food and water.

· The sowing time: early spring, after harvest of early vegetables and in the winter.

· Scheme planting: rossypi or rows of 10-15 cm

· The seed rate: 20-25 kg per ha.

· The timing of mowing: when the plants grow to 20-30 cm Need to have time, until the mustard greens, not callous and not formed seeds.

Mustard to spread for 1.5–2 months before the onset of cold weather and leave uncut. In winter it will serve as a snow retention, the spring will protect from the formation of crusts on earth and erosion. Before planting the main crop raking with a rake and put into the compost or use as mulch.

Seedlings usually appear on the 4th day, and the beginning of flowering occurs roughly 40-50 a day depending on conditions. It is best to make the cut with grinding the mass with incorporation of the cultivator. It is necessary to consider that phase of this culture are parallel, i.e. while bloom top buds, bottom already formed pods. Therefore, to proceed with the cleaning is impossible,