Home garden soil and agriculture environment

Home Garden Soil and Agriculture Environment

October 30th, 2009 | Outdoor and Garden | By Nada Magdy

Farming household surfaces

Lesson one

Cleaning and preparing a place

When I talk about cultivation it doesn’t mean that I am referring to cultivating the surface of the house only, but I mean any surface which is suitable for gardening, either in front of the house or behind the house .Make sure that this surface is well exposed to the sun for 5 hours a day at least.

* Clean the surface of your home well before you start the process of cultivation and disposal of any garbage in the garden area will impede access to the sun for plants cultivated.

Purchase and processing of agricultural inputs

First plastic buckets

plastic buckets

Tools used: (scissors – shovel – bucket – a small automatic machine gun – a large pot for brewing the environment…)

Lesson Two

Types of agricultural environment

First SOIL

Soil consists of mineral elements: Sand, Mud and Silt, Clay and organic materials, micro-organisms and nine holes of lattice water and air.

Soils

Divide the soil into different sections depending on the proportion of mineral components (sand – silt – clay) .
The clay has a fraction depending on the adsorption capacity of water and nutrients (Adsorption) Therefore, the presence of clay soil gives greater importance and release labels on the types of soil depending on the ratio of components of sand, silt and clay .

1 – Sandy soil (light soil) : containing less than 20% of the weight of silt and clay. It has good drainage, ventilation and water-holding capacity is also very low.

Sandy soil

2 – Clay soil (heavy soil) : and contain at least 30% of the weight of clay, which is poorly ventilated, but field capacity (ability to retain water), and the food is very high .

Clay soil

3- Loamy Soil: The best species are composed of equal proportions of sand, silt and mud, if it contains more than the amount of clay defined as soil yellow clay (Clay Loam) If the amount of silt dominants so defined as yellow loam soil (Silty Loam ).

Loamy Soil

Lesson three

Agriculture environment

Environments used in the different farming systems made up of circles that do not contain the mud, but the environments used lightweight and sterile and does not contain any salts. Do not interact with the irrigation water or nutrients so as not to alter the chemical composition of the environment

First: The Peat Moss

Peat Moss can be defined as decomposing remains of plants resulting from the natural decay of plants in the forest is characterized by cold and light in weight and free of disease and pollutants and absorbs large quantities of water and keeps the plant which can absorb the water for too long .

The Peat Moss

Second: Pearlite

Volcanic stone is crushed and heated to temperatures too high so that it expands significantly.
It is lightweight material and increase the ventilation of the environment as it can contribute in facilitating the roots of plants to absorb nutrients from the environment .

Pearlite

Third: El Firmukiuliet

Which is a sheet metal is extracted in the form of metal, mica from the mines and treated with very high temperatures melt chips for light weight and has high water retention .

El Firmukiuliet

The Firmukiuliet characteristics

1 – Neutral or slightly acid.
2 – Sterile.
3 – A well-ventilated.
4 – With a high ability to absorb water and keep it

Fourth: Sand

Sand can be used as a component of the environment to increase ventilation inside it but the sand should be free of salts or lime. The grains of sand must be medium-sized enterprises so that does not work on the drainage of irrigation water at high speed in the case of large particles decreases ventilation in the case of soft particles of very small .

Fifth some organic sources

Could use some other sources as part of the parts of the environment like grain rice or Coconut Fiber due to its ability to retain moisture and good ventilation

Sixth: THE Compost

The basis of grass and dry leaves, buried in the ground to rot and then taken out and mixed with sufficient amount of silt and sand, and by a simple lime and fertilizer consisting of nitrogen, phosphate and potassium and soil compost can be purchased from nurseries or retail sale of grain and fertilizer .

THE Compost

Conditions to be met in a mixture of good soil

1- Fixed does not change chemically when sterilization by steam or disinfectants.
2 – The ability to maintain high moisture.
3 – Good ventilation.
4 – Number with pH properly.
5 – Unable to retain nutrients.
6 – Light weight.

Last but not least to overcome some of the fungi plant

Insecticide fungi plant

Chemical pesticides to combat fungi that infect plants, including many types of different nomenclature such as
(Koseid / Rizulks / Viavacs / Daconnel / ………..)
In general, in the case of cultivation of ornamental plants, you could use chemical pesticides which are marketed by type of disease where there is fear of the use of these pesticides because such plants are not eaten but used only for decoration .

And now you can start this simple information and begin with the cultivation and processing of soil for farming your garden.
In the next lesson we will talk about pots and greenhouses, agriculture and give examples of some plants that can cultivate in your new garden.