Content
- Creating a greenhouse floor - what is important?
- A balanced nutrient content is mandatory
- Also fertilize greenhouse soil regularly
- Heavy to light eaters on vegetables and herbs
- Fertilize mineral or organic?
- Tips
The professional preparation of the soil is a prerequisite for a high harvest success
Creating a greenhouse floor - what is important?
Especially when you lay your first greenhouse floor, it depends on a balanced nutrient content of the earth. A structure as crumbly as possible not only stimulates plant growth, but also makes the correct plant insertion and regular soil maintenance much easier.
The basis for a healthy and profitable growth of your greenhouse plants, especially of vegetables and herbs, is a fertile soil, which also has a deep pH between 6 to 7. Well suited is a slightly sandy clay soil, the humus content may be slightly higher especially in the young plant breeding. Sifted and too fine structurally, plants do not like him so much, then already rather crumblywhich in turn is good for strong rooting.
A balanced nutrient content is mandatory
The exact values are always dependent on the type of planting when creating a new greenhouse floor. Nor do they have to be universal for the total area if your greenhouse is divided into different zones and beds. As target guideline values with regard to the nutrient content apply to 100 grams dry soil for:
If you want to manage your greenhouse professionally and value healthy growing vegetables, you should check your current soil conditions in the laboratory and repeat the analysis every four to five years.
Also fertilize greenhouse soil regularly
Gartenkompost, one of the best organic fertilizer ever, is also ideal in the greenhouse for improving soil fertility. However, he should as possible free from weed seeds his. If the self-produced compost does not contain the necessary nutrients, then commercial fertilizer must be provided. The size of the compost portion of the entire greenhouse floor depends on whether low, medium or even heavy consumption crops are to be cultivated. Some examples are shown in the table:
Heavy to light eaters on vegetables and herbs
Fertilize mineral or organic?
It is advisable, especially with the greenhouse floor, to give preference to organic fertilization. However, it does not work in the soil immediately, because the ingredients only slowly being unlocked in the ground need to be available to the plants. For plants with a longer culture period, the fertilizers can be staggered into the soil. Mineral fertilizers help faster and especially when acute nutrient deficiency prevails. They are best fed to the ground together with irrigation water.
Tips
Manure as fertilizer is not needed for the nutrient cycle in the greenhouse. Investigations have already repeatedly confirmed that with the dung manure many vegetable gardens were literally overfertilized, which has an unfavorable effect on plants and soils.