Mustard cake - application in horticulture

Mustard cake - application in horticulture

Mustard cake is a safe organic substance that can increase yield and protect plants from pests and diseases. Mustard mustard, from which mustard cake is produced, has nutritional and bactericidal properties. The essential oils contained therein are detrimental to the pathogenic microflora.

The use of mustard cake in the garden

Mustard oil cake is sold in stores for gardeners. There it looks like a brown powder of a coarse fraction. Fertilizer is stored in a dry cool room at plus temperature.

Cake - the mass left over from the seeds of mustard, after pressing the oil. It's pure organic. It contains proteins, fiber and minerals.

In agriculture, used cake, dried and ground to a uniform flow. The mass must be obtained by cold pressing. When the seeds of mustard are hotly squeezed, chemical reagents are used, which, if they get into the soil, act as a herbicide, and cause irreparable damage to the plants.

In crushed and compressed grains there are essential oils. They with a cake in a ground and suppress a pathogenic microflora, especially putrid bacteria. In the presence of mustard seed meal spores of late blight and fusariosis - diseases that harm potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, can not germinate.

Cake - phytosanitary. Mustard oil frightens off the roots of wireworm, nematodes, onion and carrot fly larvae, biting scoop. It is noted that after the introduction of loose cake into the soil, the soil is released from the wire for 8-9 days. The larvae of flies perish for a few days faster.

The ability to pomace to destroy pests and disease spores is the main reason for using the product in the garden and in the garden. But not the only one. Mustard oil cake can be not only a medic, but also a valuable organic fertilizer. It contains nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and microelements, which in the soil quickly transform into an inorganic form and become accessible to plants.

The cake is pereprevaet in the soil for at least 3 months. That is, plants will be fed next year. But this year, the introduction of pomace will benefit:

• improve the structure of the soil, it will become more friable, moisture-absorbing;
• Mulch from the cake will prevent evaporation of water from the soil;
• infection of the site with harmful insects and microorganisms will decrease.

If it is necessary for the cake to act faster as a fertilizer, it is sprinkled with earth. If the product is needed to protect plants from diseases and pests, it is left on the surface in the form of mulch.

Application in the garden

We learn how to use mustard oil cake, so that at the minimum expense it brings the greatest benefit.

Protection from wireworm, bear

Mass is added to the wells by planting crops that suffer from wireworm and bear . This is potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage and any seedlings. Each well is poured over a tablespoon.

From onion and carrot flies

For seeding / planting onions, garlic and carrots add a tablespoon of cake to the meter of the groove.

From root rot on cucumbers and zucchini

The product is added over a tablespoon to each well when seeding or planting the seedlings.

From sucking and leaf-eating pests

The product is spread a thin layer over the surface of the soil around the stems. The sun begins to emit the essential oil of mustard - its specific odor scares away harmful insects.

Improvement of soil and quality of root crops

Mustard cake can be mixed with other fertilizers and protective equipment. A mixture of ground mustard and wood ash in any proportion, introduced when planted in holes and grooves - is an excellent fertilizer and protection for potatoes and root crops. The cake mixed with Phytosporin (1: 1) when applied to the soil will prevent root rot, improve the storage of root crops in winter, improve the soil for the next season.

Cleansing the potato field

If the site has a place with a heavy poor land, where you can not plant potatoes because it is eaten by a wireworm, you can conduct an experiment. Plant one row of potatoes on the usual technology and another - with a mustard meal. Add to each well a tablespoon of the substance. A kilogram pack of cake is enough for a bucket of planting potatoes.

You can see the result of applying biofertilization in the summer, without waiting for the excavation of the crop. Where the cake was used, the Colorado beetle does not occur. The bushes grow larger, they blossom earlier. When digging out, it is found that the potato was grown large, clean, with no outgrowth of scab and holes from the wire. On a bed with a cake there will be less weeds, and the earth will become much friable.

Application of mustard cake in the garden

In the fruit and berry plantations, the product can be introduced under the autumn-spring digging. Sprinkle the leaves of raspberries and strawberries with oil cake, you can scare off the weevil.

The cake is used for planting berry bushes and trees, adding 500-1000 g to the planting hole instead of humus. Unlike manure, the cake in the hole does not attract the bear and the horsemen, but, on the contrary, frightens them off the tender roots, and the young tree will not perish.

Fertilizer garden:

1. Plantation of strawberries, raspberries, red and black currants, gooseberries, roses in spring, cleanse from last year's leaves.
2. Straight on the ground near the bushes, fill in mustard cake.
3. Add Biohumus or Orvit - liquid organic fertilizers.
4. Sprinkle with the earth.

Thanks to this "pie", the plants will be protected from powdery mildew, rot and pests. The cake will quickly rot, it will become a food in the middle of summer, increasing the yield of the berry.

When it can not be used

Cake is an organic product with a natural composition. It can not adversely affect the soil or plants at any dosage. The optimum dose of the product depends on the contamination of the site and can range from 0.1 to 1 kg per square meter. m.

The use of cake will not cause difficulties even for beginners. The pack is supplied with detailed instructions with dosage instructions for each culture.

10 kg of oil cake for nutritiousness are comparable to the Mullein cube. However, the cake has some advantages:

• there are no weeds, pests and parasites in it;
• has phytosanitary properties;
• easy to carry and carry;
• frightens off rodents and ants;
• in unopened packaging can be stored without loss of bactericidal and nutritional qualities for many years - the shelf life is unlimited;
• affordable cost.

The product should not be used on strongly acidic soils, as it increases acidity. You can not fertilize them with beds, where in the current season cruciferous cultures will be grown, since mustard itself belongs to this family.

Mustard cake is an effective and completely natural means of plant protection, soil improvement and yield increase. The considered application of the product along with the observance of agrotechnical measures has only a positive effect on plants and soil.