January

In winter, the growers are preparatory work . First, you need to take care of the seeds . It is necessary to view all the stored seeds, make a list of them in view of their number, then add to this list a list of those crops, the seeds of which are planning to purchase .

Table . 1 summarizes the increased seeding rate of each vegetable culture, taking into accountcareful of their pre-sorting in which some small and puny seeds is rejected . The table shows how insignificant sowing norms of most vegetable crops and how often acquired a disproportionate number of seeds .

Table 1 . A sample set of vegetable crops for individual plotsGood germinate seeds on a layer of sawdust previously scalded with boiling water . In the dishes with a wide flat bottom pour a layer of fine sawdust 2 - 3 cm (can and more), pour over boiling water, drainwater, cover with a layer of filter paper or newspaper .

Culture	Annual rate per person kg	Yield from 1 square . M, kg	Area under the crop onOne of gHuman, q . M	Seed rate of 10 square meters . M	Requires seeds on the whole area, • g
Cabbage	33	5	7	1	0.7
Cauliflower, of red,
Kohlrabi	6	2	3	1	0.3
Tomatoes	32	4	8	1	0.8
Cucumber	10	3	3	10	3
Carrot	8	4	2	5	1
Beet	6	3	2	15	3
Onion
(Planting Seva)	8	3	3	1000	300
Sweet pepper	3	1.5	2	1	0.8
Zucchini, eggplant	7	3	2	1	0,2
Green peas	5	1.5	3	15	1
Green (lettuce, dill, spinach
Et al. )	5	1.5	3	5	1
Other vegetables (horseradish, tarragon,
Celery et al. )	H	4	1

Given the composition of the family tradition and its power, it is necessary to calculate the need for seeds for each vegetable crops, which are scheduled to grow .

The following are interesting varieties of cucumbers: Murom-36 Vyaznikovskaya-37 and productivity-86 .

The best variety for pickling - Nezhinskii,fruits are very beautiful and good taste, but their formation is still slower than the varieties Vyaznikov-sky, and for early cucumbers, this variety is not suitable .

Large variety of tomato varieties in the country - from the ultra-fast up to late-but for the conditions of the republicgood few . The best for our area is the Siberian ripening is an early variety with smooth round fruits high palatability . It is suitable for processing . A few larger and larger fruit crop yields Talalikhin grade, but the taste quality of the fruits not high enough .

For marinating very good variety of tomato Sunny, recently homologated in the republic . The fruit of this variety are not large, rounded, smooth .

For storage of cabbage in the winter cabbages grow better varieties Gift and Belarusian-455 .

For large crop of greenonion and for bulbs that can perfectly be stored until spring, and sometimes until the next harvest, it is necessary to grow the variety Bessonovskiy . The bulbs in this class are not large in size, very sharp taste, dense, well maintained in winter .

Try to find a place on the site and legumes - beans and vegetable pea . Take a small section of spicy green vegetables and sow fennel, mint, savory, lovage, basil, marjoram, etc. . Tt useful vegetable plants .

Should not be grown in one place for two years, the same vegetables, it will reduce their crops and increase morbidity .

Soil mixture is prepared for planting depending on the crop . For cabbage, onions, celery, cucumbers and other cucurbits one part sod land mixed with one part humus . A bucket of the mixture was added two cups of ash insoil mixture of cabbage for added 'another glass of lime-Pushenko to reduce the acidity of the soil .

Make good soil mix in the fall, pour it into the boxes and leave the winter on the balcony or loggia . Bad disinfects freezing soil . A few days before planting box are entered into the room and after heating the soil prepare the surface, and the seeds .

Use an old plastic film . From it can be cut into stripsfor cups for seedlings, as well as making a perforated "covers" for the shelter early seedling vegetables . Through holes in the film, broken tube with sharp edges, the plants will enter the air and moisture . Under the perforated film well grow lettuce, radishes, fennel, carrots .