"Green manure

Every amateur gardener can sow, and someone can already sow mustard in their garden. Everyone knows, and they probably heard that over the years the soil becomes much worse and more and more weeds grow on it and pests quickly begin to attack it. And here green fertilizer comes to the rescue - mustard. By sowing mustard in your garden, you will see that the soil will improve, renew itself, and the yield on good soil will only increase in the future.

Let's tell you interesting things about siderate mustard.

Mustard has its positive and negative sides. So, by sowing this plant in the garden, your site will lose overgrowth of weeds, pests, and various diseases. The largest amount of mustard fills the soil with useful substances, which are subsequently processed into humus. Mustard can hold nitrogen in the soil.

I want to note that mustard has long roots, this is better for the structure of the soil, because it looses better this way. After you cut off the mustard that grows above the ground, its roots will rot and leave channels in the ground through which moisture and air will penetrate well. This plant is used by some as mulch.

Negative sides of mustard

This plant is a cruciferous plant and therefore can carry the same diseases and pests. If you plant mustard for fertilization, then observe the crop rotation.

There is also one drawback, birds peck out mustard seeds, like other seeds, respectively.

How mustard is sown.

We sow mustard as fertilizer.

If you want to grow mustard as a siderat, then you need to wait until it fully ripens in order to eventually get the seeds. Mustard is sown from spring to autumn. Consider the moment that if you sow it at the end of summer, for example, then you will not get a lot of greenery.

This green fertilizer is usually sown in the autumn - summer period, the consumption is 200-300 grams of seeds per one hundred square meters. If you decide to sow mustard at the end of summer, then double the number of seeds during sowing by one hundred square meters than before. This set out the norms for sowing mustard as a fertilizer for the land.

For bee lovers, if you sow mustard so that it grows like a honey plant, then reduce the volume of seeds by one hundred square meters. The mustard is planted about 3 centimeters deep, while stamping on the soil. For the seeds to germinate quickly, the soil needs to be slightly moist.

After you have planted this plant, the plant will emerge in about 4-6 weeks. If your goal is to use mustard for fertilization, then you need to look so that seeds do not form on the plant, that is, you need to cut it off before it begins to bloom, this will be much more beneficial.

You can cut with a flat cutter. To improve the processing of the greenery of the plant, it is better to water it with the EM preparation before cutting it. If you are cutting mustard in dry weather, it is best to periodically water the area where you are cutting.

How mustard seeds are harvested.

For example, you can collect pods of white mustard at any time of the day, since they do not crack, but it is better to collect mustard mustard early in the morning or late in the evening. Fertilize the soil correctly, and it will delight you with a good harvest!