Can humus made from fallen leaves be used to grow vegetables?

1. Where is it easy to obtain humus?

It takes a certain amount of time for litter to naturally decay into fertilizer, and there are litter and leaves but no one cleans up the place where there is generally humus soil, and relatively speaking, the mountain forests and flat forests with many trees in the countryside usually have more fallen leaves, and the humus soil produced is also more, specifically for the humus soil, it is recommended to go to the woodland with many trees, and it is easy to obtain humus; For example, the villagers went to the woods near the village to shovel, and they scraped more and faster than I scraped under the trees outside the yard.

2. What farm tools should I bring to take humus?

The place to obtain humus soil is in the place where there are weeds and trees, usually no one takes care of it, to take the humus soil to bring some related agricultural tools, such as shovels or thin wide hoes (shovel humus soil), rake (rake off the ground covered with humus soil for falling leaves), bucket truck or feed bag (for saprolite), in addition, it is recommended to bring a woodcutter, sometimes you need to cut down some small miscellaneous trees and branches that affect people's movement; Of course, when going to woodland, it is recommended to wear long-sleeved shirts, long pants, cotton gloves, liberation shoes or comfortable, non-slip cloth shoes for easy walking, etc.

Shovel back the humus in the woods and put it in the corner.

3. What should be done with the recovered humus and then used to grow vegetables?

Humus soil is littered branches and leaves fall into the soil fermentation and decay, water retention is loose and permeable very good, and there are weeds and trees in the sky to obstruct, get less light, even if it is a sunny day to shovel the humus, but the humus is still relatively wet, and slightly emitted a rotten gas, it is recommended to put the humus in a corner of the yard slightly spread out under the natural drying and then take it to use, the north wind is strong in autumn and winter, and the air is dry, the humus is easy to dry.

Before shoveling the humus soil in the woods, use a rake to rake off the ground fallen leaves covered with humus, and the shoveled back humus contains less fallen leaves that have not yet been corrupted, so you don't need to deliberately sieve again; Earthworms like to carve life, outdoor humus in a lot of places, the soil is fertile, shoveled back humus soil earthworms are not strange, do not throw away the earthworms, apply bottom fertilizer or root top dressing to bury them together in the soil, it is good for improving the soil.

Small chives planted in humus soil.

Fourth, there are several common ways to grow vegetables with humus soil.

1. Usually we see that the natural growth of wild grass and wild vegetables in places with a lot of outdoor humus is very good, and the use of humus on vegetable planting is also diversified, and the amount of potted plants is small, you can put some vegetable soil at the bottom of the pot and then directly take the humus to pot and plant, no need to apply bottom fertilizer, and then look at the growth needs to be topdressed, and the potted chives are growing very well.

2. For vegetables planted in the ground, humus can be used as base fertilizer or as top dressing directly or mixed with other fertilizers before application; Both of these kinds of small vegetables have been used, and leafy vegetables, flowering and fruiting vegetables, and mustard greens (snow mushrooms) planted by transplanting are growing well.

Of course, the naturally produced humus soil outdoors will generally have weed seeds, and weeds will grow when the conditions are right.

Growing soil on a balcony or terrace (hereafter referred to as a balcony) is a headache. We often see some technical articles on the Internet, which are roughly divided into organic nutrient soil purchased online or self-configured nutrient soil, vermiculite and other configurations of substrates, nutrient solutions, manure soil, field mud or pond mud, and some directly use the soil of discarded flower pots.

I have been growing vegetables on the terrace on the roof of my house for six years, except for the nutrient solution, I have basically tried other planting methods, and there are many shortcomings to a greater or lesser extent, either the soil is not moisturizing enough, or the fertility is not enough, or the soil is easy to compact. This spring, I took the opportunity to return to my hometown and got some deciduous humus from the rural mountain forests, and the result was different.

We all know that in the past 10 years or so, the young and middle-aged people in the rural areas have basically gone out to work and do business, and most of the people who have stayed in the rural areas are the elderly, women, and children, and the actual rural population has decreased sharply, coupled with the continuous improvement of rural conditions and the state's requirements for ecological protection, the mountains and forests that were originally mainly used for firewood have been well protected, and the mountains and forests have basically been restored to their original state. For more than ten years, the fallen leaves in the mountains and forests have formed a very thick deciduous humus, which is very soft to step on, and under the humus, earthworms and other insects that like to rely on humus for survival consume humus on the one hand, and excrete feces on the other, so that these humus are very fertile.

Replacing other soil with deciduous humus has many advantages such as strong and sustainable, loose soil, light weight, etc., under normal circumstances, deciduous humus can be maintained for five or six years or even longer because of the long decay process of deciduous humus. The soil is loose and easy for plants to take root, and the soil has good air permeability. It weighs only one-half or one-third of the average soil.

Moreover, the nutrient composition of humus is more balanced, not easy to cause soil erosion, good moisture retention, and can save water to the greatest extent. Earthworms and other insects in the humus keep the soil soft and hardly compact.

More than a dozen bags of humus were brought back from the mountains and forests in the countryside, of which rotting leaves accounted for the main component. The test planting of tomatoes showed that the plant height of tomatoes with humus was more than 30% higher than that of conventional nutrient soil, the root system was more developed, the plants were thicker, the leaves were greener and larger, the fruit setting rate was significantly higher than that of ordinary nutrient soil, and the lodging resistance of the plants was stronger.

Yesterday afternoon, my dad asked me and him to grow vegetables in the vegetable patch in front of my house.

We borrowed some tools from my neighbor's grandmother, and my father and I used shovels to turn the soil, which he said would make the soil softer, and it would also help the roots of the vegetables grow and absorb nutrients. When the soil was turned, Dad used an iron rake to break up the large clods of soil, and then leveled the turned soil.

After the vegetable plot was ready, then you could plant vegetables, and my father bought a total of three kinds of rapeseeds, namely nepeta, cauliflower, and beans, and I asked my father to divide the vegetable plot into three pieces according to my opinion, and each field was equipped with different vegetables.

In a small plot to the west of the gate, we planted jade cauliflower, and my father evenly sprinkled the black jade cauliflower seeds in the ground, and then raked them a few times with an iron rake to bury the vegetable seeds in the soil.

To the east of the gate is a large piece of land, which we have divided into two small pieces, one for nepeta and the other for beans, and the cultivation method of nepeta is basically the same as that of jade cauliflower. The planting method of beans is very different, Dad first used a shovel to turn over a few ridges of soil, Dad said that this is easy to water, can better maintain the moisture of the soil, after the ridge is turned over, Dad will dig pits by hand, each pit is about 3-4 cm deep, dig a pit every about 15 cm, Dad will dig all the pits, I will put the bean seeds in the pit, put 4-5 carob seeds in each pit, and finally Dad will cover each small pit with seeds, flatten it by hand, so that the beans are planted.

Pros:Humus soil is loose and breathable, and also contains a large number of nutrients, is one of the most commonly used planting materials for balcony vegetable friends, humus is equivalent to a kind of fertilizer, because it is the soil and leaves after a period of mixed fermentation of the soil, because there are leaves of the residue, so it is not easy to compact, but at the same time contains a lot of nutrients.

Cons:The only drawback is that if you use pure humus soil to maintain vegetables, it is also easy to burn the roots and rot the roots, so it is recommended that you still mix them.

Precautions for planting soil for vegetables:

The main reason for the poor growth of potted vegetables is that the soil is not well prepared, the nutrients are insufficient, and the aeration is poor, which will affect the growth of the root system, which in turn leads to the growth of the plant is not strong.

If it is only a few pots, it is not worth buying substrate, then you can use garden soil and sand, and the garden soil is best taken from the stubble crops for onion and garlic vegetable plots, and the soil should be loose and fertile, and the aeration is good. Then get some sand by the river or where someone is building a house.

The soil and sand are sifted through a sieve to remove weeds, rotten roots, small bricks, and small stones.

Wait. Then mix according to the ratio of 3 parts of garden soil to 1 part of sand to prepare the prepared nutrient soil.

The nutrients are not very sufficient, plant some leafy vegetables.

It's no problem, if you plant fruits and vegetables, you need to add 1 5 processed organic fertilizer to it.