Tips for lazy gardeners. Garden for moderately lazy gardeners. Preference for high beds

12 simple tips for those who want to enjoy a beautiful and well-groomed garden or vegetable garden, but who constantly do not have enough time and energy ...

1. Give preference to large forms

The garden, dominated by large forms, will look well-groomed and beautiful at any time of the year and will be a great place to relax. Choose types of trees and shrubs that are not whimsical and require minimal maintenance. It can be, for example, barberry, quince, honeysuckle, lilac, buddley, shadberry, mountain ash. And conifers - spruces, pines, junipers, thujas can give a unique charm to the garden in winter.

2. Break up the lawn in your backyard

The lawn does not require as much maintenance as is necessary for the perfect flower garden. And if you replace traditional grass with ground cover plants, you can enjoy a tidy lawn with little or no effort. A clover lawn can be a great solution. Significantly less maintenance than the traditional one requires a Moorish lawn. It is also worth knowing that the most convenient lawn shape for maintenance is oval, not rectangular.

3. Use plants from your area and climate zone

The more exotic the plant, the more attention, special watering, lighting and care it will require. Therefore, give preference to plants of your area and climate zone. Their flowering regime coincides with the climatic summer, and, decorating your garden, they will require minimal maintenance.

4. Ditch container gardening

Plants in pots require constant care all year round, so you will have to organize a winter garden for them. Assess your strength realistically, and if you are not sure that you can devote your time and energy to this, then it is better to refuse container gardening.

5. Create obstacles for weeds!

Weeding is the most time-consuming activity, so keep weeds from growing in your garden! Bark, marble chips, gravel, pebbles, expanded clay will help you with this. They fit perfectly into the composition of the Japanese garden. And roses Teresa Bunye, Hans, rhododendrons, oaks, spruces, pines, poppies, lupins themselves will not allow weeds to grow around them.

6. Don't Neglect Small Form Architecture

Various small buildings - for example, gazebos or decorative statues, funny figures, or even fountains will turn the site into a work of art.

7. Organize your watering system

In advance, at the planning stage, think over the irrigation system, the placement of drainage flows, slopes, and drainage systems. This will make your life much easier!

8. Take care of convenience

Paved paths, podiums, bridges not only look great, but also simplify the maintenance of the territory. Natural stone, paving slabs, brick, wood, or gravel are perfect as a coating.

9. Don't skimp on the tool!

Garden tools, equipment like a lawn mower will help save your time and energy. Remember that cheap low-quality garden tools are an additional risk of injury. Therefore, you should not try to save on them - get all the best for a beautiful garden!

10. Create a hedge

It will be a wonderful decoration of your site, while not requiring special care.

11. Refuse the reservoir on the site

Many people dream of a garden with a pond. It really looks beautiful and romantic, however, with only careful and time-consuming care. After all, special care is needed for plants that are in stagnant water of a small pond, the reservoir must be cleaned periodically. Therefore, it is worth abandoning it if you want a beautiful garden with minimal effort. But if it is difficult to give up a dream, just limit yourself to a dry stream.

12. All Together

So everyone will have the opportunity to contribute to the creation of a country masterpiece (See also "flowerbed with your own hands" and "Garden bench with your own hands"), and the time spent together will leave pleasant memories for everyone!

The article is dedicated to the garden for the lazy. 6 acres is sacred for us, we are ready to bend our backs day and night on weekends, on vacation, and especially in retirement, for the sake of a dubious crop in terms of quantity and quality.

But the dacha should not be so much a reason for constant physical exertion and further lightness - what to do with a ton of apples or zucchini, the dacha should and must be a place for our rest and reasonable exercise so that we can stretch our muscles, relax our soul and body, doing the ground and planting with love and without much hassle. Here we will talk about such a garden for the lazy.

When I had a husband, and with him a dacha, I became a sharply enthusiastic business. I was always drawn to the earth, and therefore I began to dig in like a mole, plant different plants everywhere and everywhere.

The knowledge was very scattered and chaotic, as I later realized - I chose the most wrong path that could be.

Yes, we harvested a bunch of zucchini, pumpkins, even tomatoes and strawberries, mullen pears and the same amount of sour winter apples from 8 acres, all in sores (the garden was old and neglected), but at what cost was it obtained? On May 1-9, we stood in the “sic” position all the days, digging beds, planting seeds and seedlings, warming, fertilizing and digging bushes. Then they spent the whole summer in the same “zyu” position, weeding weeds between lilies, in beds, peonies and currant bushes. Well, all the other delights such as aphids, white bloom on gooseberries and cleaning tons of foliage and rot in the fall, you also imagine yourself perfectly.

After 2 years, I realized: either I will send a dacha, or it will kill me. There was no rest - only hard physical labor. Therefore, a strong-willed decision was made the only right one: to redo what we already somehow managed to do. Laziness is the engine of progress, when the monkey became lazy, it turned into a man - this is my deep conviction.

Water supply for a lazy garden

One of the most time-consuming and difficult moments in the care. Carrying water hoses and watering cans to water every plant is hellish hell.

I work with my head, not just with my hands, so in winter we drew a diagram of the location of new beds, taking into account the lighting and the presence of trees, in the spring we stretched hoses around the perimeter of the site, from which we made bends (fittings) to attach a piece of a short watering hose in the right place , designed for watering 2-3 adjacent beds or bushes.

Under the bushes and trees, as well as in the center of the site, I stretched individual hoses, there was no problem dragging them slowly without water. So we solved the problem with watering. It was possible to organize drip irrigation, but it was very expensive for us at that time.

In order for top dressing to be constantly available, in a light shade at the edge of the site, I put an old plastic barrel of 200 liters.

I throw all weeds without seeds and mowed grass there, fill it with water, and then water my lazy beds with this infused green fertilizer, which I will talk about later. Nettle is best suited as a top dressing, it is the most “valuable” in terms of nutrients.

But dandelions and gout will work too. A lid should be attached to the barrel - amber from rotting plant residues is not very good.

Also, 200-liter metal barrels stood at the edges of the roof, rainwater was collected in them, using a Baby type pump, with a piece of hose and a carrying for electricians, I could easily water the peony bushes and flower beds around the house. The power supply of the site is something without which modern life is unthinkable, I don’t even talk about those dachas where there is no light and water. And here you can find the plan for the gasification of St. Petersburg and get acquainted with it.

Beds for a lazy garden

The second thing that did not allow me to live in peace was that I was tired of digging every spring and then constantly trimming the beds. Also, I was not satisfied with the traditional width, at which I was forced to almost lie down in order to properly weed the center of the garden (I have an average height of 165 cm.).

Therefore, in the winter, we again - planned narrow beds-boxes based on Mittlider's, made them 3 m long and 1 m wide. They dug a shovel on a bayonet, maybe a little deeper.

In the Moscow region, the main type of soil is loam and clay, loam is fertile, but heavy, so we brought in black soil and mixed it with pure purchased loam. We used the excavated soil to level the site.

A black non-woven fabric was laid on the bottom and sides of the trench in 2 layers so that the rhizomes of weeds did not germinate (the entire area was covered in horsetail, nettle, goutweed and other evil spirits, which were not taken by any chemical).

From above they put boxes knocked down from wood 2.5 cm thick and 20 cm high. The size of the beds. They poured a mixture of peat, black soil, loam into the beds and got a wonderful fertile soil. An additional plus of such beds is that they are easy to care for and you can purposefully water and fertilize plants.

For the winter, I covered the beds with plastic wrap, in the spring they thawed first of all and already in April they were ready for sowing radishes and early greens, lettuce and planting seedlings of early tomatoes under lutrasil. For sowing seeds, I designed and manufactured a lazy planter, which saved me a lot of time.

High beds are also good because they are convenient to handle. In Europe, such beds are a fashionable trend and have been used by gardeners for a long time. Under the high beds, you can also adapt obsolete metal barrels.

All summer I threw off finely chopped twigs, excess grass, foliage in them, and in the spring I poured earth 30 centimeters high into such a still half-moist compost and planted cucumbers and peas - the crops turned out marvelous, and the lashes hung down and covered unsightly barrels.

When planning the beds, consider how much and what you want to plant and are ready to eat. Once, for the sake of interest and for the sake of beauty, I planted bush zucchini along the fence - then I distributed it at work and to all the neighbors, they also refused))), when the distribution went on for the fifth time.

It is convenient to grow climbing plants, and even tall tomatoes vertically, using a green coarse mesh. Landing and grid installation schemes are in the figure.

Beans and cowpeas grow 2.5 meters high, from one of the beds under the window I attached a net obliquely to the roof of the house - beans curly and blooming with red flowers - it was something grandiose, neighbors came to see us! I do not advise growing anything too heavy on the net, it will tear or the stakes will not withstand the load, but for beans, cucumbers and tomatoes it is ideal.

It is convenient to distribute tomato branches over it like a fan and tie them up, achieving uniform illumination of each brush, and if you make a slight slope of the net, this will help the plant to hold its weight.

In the Moscow region, thick-walled peppers bear fruit perfectly, ripen on the vine, only it is advisable to grow your own seedlings from February and use lutrasil from mid-late August.

As for plantings, we grew onions for feathers (you can buy a turnip at the market at any time, and feathers are ideal for salads and barbecue), radishes, various types of lettuce - I sowed it in flowerbeds - it grows beautifully.

Parsley, dill, some beets for tops, carrots for nibbling. All this - on three beds, alternating and overseeding according to seasonality and the extent of eating.

Pumpkins, zucchini and peas with corn are a mandatory program, there are a lot of peas, zucchini and pumpkins - 3 bushes, including zucchini, corn and sunflower - along the chain-link mesh.

One box-bed was occupied by peppers and eggplants, the other - beans - 3 meters long, and below - a row of stunted tomatoes. In general - just a little bit, so that work becomes a pleasure, not hard labor. We had a separate bed for strawberries, I planted garlic next to it, but no one touched the berry anyway - it’s in the box, and even under the mulch.

Mulching and caring for the lazy garden

To dig or not to dig is a question akin to being or not to be. I chose the golden mean for myself. In the spring, I loosen the earth in the beds-boxes, introducing fertilizers and compost. This is done with the most elementary rake and occasionally with a pitchfork. Easy, fast, simple - for one bed - 10 minutes at the most. I do not dig anywhere else and nothing worse from this began to grow.

For growing strawberries, I use black covering material. It is very convenient and functional. Weeds do not grow under the covering material, the berries lie on the material, do not rot, all the whiskers that need to be eliminated do not have time to hide and take root.

Every piece is in plain sight. Non-woven fabric perfectly passes water and fertilizers dissolved in it. It does not allow the earth to dry out even in the driest periods; you can’t run into a summer cottage during the week. I put it in 2 layers, in one it does not save from all weeds, the most malicious ones make their way.

If you don’t like the look of black covering material - lay straw on top - it will be just perfectly beautiful, as in the picture. Instead of straw, you can lay decorative chips, it is more expensive, but very beautiful.

For shrubs and trees, I also use a very simple and cheap method of mulching and weed protection - non-woven fabric plus cardboard. First, a black non-woven fabric 60 microns thick is laid with a radius of 1 meter, a couple of layers of cardboard are laid over it, as shown in the photo.

All this is spilled from a hose so that the cardboard is a little soaked and sticks to the ground, decorative chips or straw are laid on top, you can sprinkle it with earth, but again, weeds grow right away, chips or straw are better from experience. In this case, I direct watering directly under the bush, I also apply fertilizers in the same way.

The soil under the cardboard is always loose and wet, the weeds rot and additionally feed the earth. I remove such a coating for the winter so that pests and mice do not hibernate in it.

Resting place for lazy gardeners

The most important thing for a lazy gardener to do is to arrange their vacation.

Be sure to select a zone on the site where you will fry kebabs, chat with friends, plant birch or spruce trees, forest lilies of the valley there, dig in the forest and bring a juniper of a bizarre shape. This is our piece of soul, for the sake of which we will do everything else.

When I arrive at the dacha, I know that in the morning I will go out to drink fragrant tea on the veranda, and in the evening I will cook barbecue at the end of the site near the ravine with a stream. Be sure to make a good canopy over the barbecue so that not a single rain can interfere with your vacation plans.

I always have books at home, with a cup of hot tea, admiring the natural watering of plantings by nature, I calmly talk about what preparations I want to make this year and let the whole world wait!

By the way, what I wrote about today is hard physical labor, but by doing it once, it allows you to save a lot of time, money and effort in the future, and will also please you with an excellent harvest and white envy of your neighbors. The next post will be about fruits and flowers in a lazy dacha.

Source: https://newdom.mirtesen.ru/blog/43536722169

Garden for the lazy without the hassle: the secrets of new technology

Labor on earth is considered hard and tiring. Anyone who has tried to dig up a couple of acres of land or weed them knows how difficult it is. I want to relax differently: nature, barbecue, birds sing, and let the vegetables grow on their own, with the minimum participation of the summer resident ... You will be surprised, but this is possible! Organize a lazy garden - and relax to the glory.

What should be a lazy smart garden

Lazy people make progress. They are not satisfied with the abundance of work with little result, they improve everything around, from tools to technology. Their goal is the same: just to work less. So humanity has acquired various household appliances: washing machines, lawn mowers, chainsaws. This is how smart, lazy, efficient farming was invented.

So what should a lazy garden look like? Imagine, there is no longer a need to dig, hill, weed, and you have to water and fertilize much less often. The cost of mineral dressings, herbicides are minimized. Every year there is less and less work in the lazy garden, and the harvest only grows. How is this possible? Let's figure it out together.

The garden will not become smart without your participation. What should be done to exchange most of the work for rest, without losing in the harvest? Abandon technologies that are detrimental to the garden, and instead master useful, creative ones. What types of work are excluded in lazy gardens? Summer residents who want to live in harmony with nature:

• do not dig the ground;
• do not loosen it after the rain;
• do not weed;
• do not water the plants often;
• do not use herbicides, poisons.

How is this possible? What will grow on undigged land, among weeds, in heat and drought? There will be no weeds, dense soil crust and heat, because organizing a garden for the lazy involves:

• reduction of cultivated area;
• mulching;
• joint landings;
• repeated crops;
• planting green manure.

First, decide how many and what kind of gifts of the earth you would like to grow. Do not rush to answer: “There is more of everything!” A good harvest of any crop needs to be grown, harvested, processed, preserved.

This work is not for the lazy. If the result is worth the effort - go for it, but sow, plant vegetables that you really eat.

Experience shows that sometimes half of the crop and more remain in the ground.

In the garden for the lazy, it is convenient to grow crops that give quick and large shoots: beans, zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins, potatoes, corn.

After the first weeding, the aisles are covered with a thick layer of organic mulch. To do this, you can use straw, grass, fallen leaves, wood chips, tree bark, needles and much more.

Under the mulch, coolness and moisture are retained, weed growth is difficult, and soil crust is not formed.

Plants grown through seedlings are good and easy to care for: cabbage, peppers, tomatoes. Before planting them in early spring, you can have time to grow green manure, such as oats: it will make the soil loose and give green mass for mulch.

Plants planted after oats quickly take root and grow. Closed with a layer of organic matter, they do not need weeding, loosening, and they rarely need to be watered.

Greens and small-seeded crops grow well in special "lazy" beds.

How to make beds for the lazy

The traditional garden is an alternation of rows and row spacing, which eventually turn into trampled paths. Look carefully at such a site: cultivated plants occupy a third of the area, no more.

In order not to waste energy on useless tillage, lazy gardeners create permanent beds. Their length can be any, ranging from 40 to 100 cm, as it is more convenient for the gardener.

An important condition: you must easily reach the middle of the bed without stepping on it.

It's great if you can fence lazy beds around the perimeter with your own hands. - boards, slate, metal are suitable for this, but if this is not possible, do not despair.

The main thing - remember that the beds should have a permanent place and you will only process them.

To drastically increase the yield of the beds, you can fill them with compost, if it is not there, find every opportunity to add organic matter to the soil: grow green manure before and after the main crops, mulch.

Lazy vegetable garden using new technology

The garden for the lazy is built on the ideas of natural, natural farming. In addition to mulching and growing green manure in a smart dacha, joint plantings are used.

Vegetables growing side by side are able to help each other, feed and protect from enemies. Reasonable neighborhoods need to be carefully thought out, learning more about the preferences of each culture.

By mastering this technology, you can get more healthy vegetables from a smaller area.

One of the principles of natural farming teaches: the soil should not be empty. In nature, you will not find fertile land on which nothing grows. Not only the soil feeds the herbs growing on it, flowers, vegetables.

They also feed her with all their might. After harvesting an early harvest, do not leave the bed unoccupied, plant dill, lettuce, chard, radish or radish on it.

In autumn, the table will be enriched with fresh herbs, and the garden bed will receive its portion of organic matter.

A dacha for the lazy should be distinguished by fertile soil. Find an opportunity to cover the garden before winter. Everything will do: vegetable tops, grass without seeds, fallen leaves, sawdust, straw. A good idea is to sow mustard, buckwheat, peas after harvest. Let the young shoots go under the snow, until spring your garden bed will not only rest, but also receive excellent nutrition!

Land rich in humus does not need deep digging. The lazy bed is loosened superficially, to a depth of no more than 5 cm. The best tools for this are a flat cutter and a hoe. The fertile layer looks like a sponge, it is indented with passages of earthworms, channels left from the small roots of dead plants. Such soil is called structured, digging it only spoils it.

Beautiful garden for the lazy

A smart dacha should have a lazy garden: it starts with a lawn. In order for grass to grow under the trees instead of weeds, regular mowing is needed.

Plant lazy flower beds and flower beds with spectacular perennials - they become more attractive every year, and they require less maintenance. In the first year, hide the trunk circles of young trees under a black film or agrofibre.

Later, the gardener can turn the space under the tree into a small flower bed. A garden and a vegetable garden for the lazy is a creative business!

Reviews

Ivan, 52 years old: They completely abandoned the garden in the country, they only went to rest. They gave him all their strength and time, and the harvest - for chickens to laugh at. I came across a book by Galina Kizima about a lazy garden. We made several beds in a lazy style, we fertilize with grass, vegetable peels, free fertilizer, but effective. We plant, care for less, and the harvest grows!

Tatyana, 37 years old: I am fond of smart, lazy farming. I read a lot about this from Nikolai Kurdyumov and Pavel Trannua. I especially like the effect of straw mulch on plants. It is humid under it even in the heat, when everything withers at the neighbors, my tomatoes, cucumbers and pumpkins are vigorous and green! I mulch everything, even the flower garden.

Vera, 42 years old: In September, they harvested potatoes, on the advice of a neighbor, they sowed oats and peas. By frost, greenery grew, about 12 cm, in winter it froze under the snow. The snow melted, they raked the tops from the site. Such a land under it is luxurious, loose, they didn’t even cultivate it, they sowed carrots and beets. Looking forward to a good harvest!

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We create a lazy garden and a vegetable garden with our own hands - photos of unusual and practical solutions

Many of their novice summer residents are sure that they will rest on the garden plot, and the work of planting and caring for vegetables, trees and strawberries will not be burdensome and will only bring pleasure.

Only after a while it becomes clear how much effort is required to invest in the process of developing a summer cottage, in learning the secrets of planting vegetables and a garden. Meanwhile, there is a good way to make your work easier.

This method is called the "lazy garden", having mastered which you can think about rest.

Lazy garden - a smart garden, it allows you to make work easier and increase yields

What does "lazy garden" mean?

It has long been noticed that lazy people are often the engines of progress. The smart garden was also invented by lazy people.

As planned, lazy beds do not need to be dug up, then weeded, watered and fed too often.

Over time, the plants will be even more "independent", there will be less work with them, and the yield will increase. How to achieve such incredible results, we will tell below.

Differences from traditional beds

In order for the beds to "smart" and begin to bring a good harvest without much difficulty, they should be properly organized. We need to understand what methods of processing and feeding plants do not suit us. One of the methods to facilitate the care of plantings will be the arrangement of trellises. We also want to drop:

• digging the earth;
• loosening the soil after rain;
• weeding;
• too frequent watering;
• use of poisons.

So maybe? It is quite possible if you fulfill some requirements. The lazy garden suggests:

• mulching;
• re-sowing in one area;
• complex landings;
• the use of green manure;
• reduction in the amount of land under cultivation.

Joint planting of garden crops for the benefit of all

Choice of crops to grow

In a lazy garden, it is easiest to grow plants that give quick shoots: beans, zucchini, potatoes, pumpkins, corn, cucumbers.

Immediately after the first weeding between the rows of vegetables, you need to fill up a solid layer of mulch. In this quality, hay, autumn foliage, grass, needles, bark, wood chips are suitable.

Mulch retains maximum moisture under a thick layer, does not allow weeds to multiply, and prevents the formation of a dried crust on the soil.

In the same way, vegetables planted in the form of seedlings grow well. These are peppers, tomatoes, cabbage - all those that are usually planted in early spring. Greens and plants with small seeds also feel good on prepared beds.

Before planting, green manure should be planted - plants designed to prepare the soil for useful crops. We suggest using oats for this purpose. This crop loosens the soil, in addition, it will provide greenery for mulching. Vegetables planted after oats take root well and grow quickly.

Due to the layer of mulch, planted crops do not require frequent watering, they do not need weeding and loosening.

Mulching prevents the soil from drying out and protects against weeds

Garden organization rules

The beds for the lazy from the side bear little resemblance to traditional planting - you can see the differences in the photo. On ordinary beds, vegetables are planted in rows, and the aisles are densely trampled down over time. Look closely and you will see that in a traditional garden, only a third of the area is used for plants.

It is necessary to stop the practice of wasting energy and switch to the use of beds that are constantly placed in one place. Our landing should be of such a size that it is possible to reach the center of the site, being from its edge. That is, you do not need to walk between the rows.

In addition, the following conditions must be adhered to:

1. It is desirable to equip lazy beds along the outer edges. You can use everything that is at hand - wood, brick, stones, pieces of slate and plastic. An indispensable condition: the beds must remain in the same place.
2. It is possible to improve the yield with the help of compost, which is generously fed to the ground. This statement is also true for gardens. However, not everyone has the opportunity to use manure, then it makes sense to try to add as much organic matter to the ground as possible. For example, use green manure, which is planted before and after growing vegetables, regularly mulch. Green manure loosens the ground and is an excellent fertilizer
3. The owner of smart beds does not forget to use organic fertilizers. This is an indisputable thesis - plants growing with fertilizers give the best harvest. At the same time, the beds require much less attention.
4. Ideally, if you use compost instead of earth, with the addition of sawdust, straw, leaves to it to give the plants more nutrients. In order to start planting on compost, it must be distributed over the bed and sprinkled with a little earth. After about a month, planting can begin on the prepared site.

Raised beds are the key to success

It is better to grow salads, as well as vegetables, using a raised bed. Crops that require frequent attention are much more convenient to serve on such beds.

High beds heat up faster, which means that planting can be done early perpetual, in addition, the presence of a grid at the base will protect plants from the invasion of moles.

Read about the design of the beds: "A beautiful and proper garden in the country with your own hands - photos, interesting ideas for decorating the beds"

You should not build a large bed, its frame can be no more than 1.5 meters wide. In this case, you can cultivate the land, standing on the side of the landing. Besides:

Raised beds make it easier to care for and decorate the site.

Basic principles of "lazy" farming

One of the features of a lazy garden is the joint planting of plants. It has long been noticed that vegetables can not only coexist in the same garden, but help each other, contributing to a better harvest. For example, planting dill between crops with potatoes will help to avoid the invasion of the Colorado potato beetle. There are other examples of the beneficial community of certain plants:

• tomatoes go well with corn, carrots, onions;
• carrots can be planted together with cabbage, onions, strawberries;
• beans will bear fruit with cabbage, cucumbers and also with potatoes;
• beans also go well with eggplant and peppers, helping to avoid the invasion of the Colorado potato beetle;
• zucchini and pumpkin are best combined with corn, which will hide these vegetables from the scorching rays.

The next principle of organizing a lazy garden is to ensure that the soil is not empty. It turns out that not only plants are fed from the earth, but they themselves feed it during growth.

At the same time, the soil will receive a portion of organic matter, which will have a beneficial effect on the quality of future plantings.

The structured soil is indented by "catacombs" after earthworms. There is no point in disturbing the humus layer in such conditions. Further, it is only necessary to water the plantings as needed. Read about a home-made tool to facilitate gardening: "What can be done for home and garden with your own hands from logs, metal, boards and other leftover materials."

Fokine flat cutter preserves soil structure - and it is easy to work with it

1. In order for the soil to remain fertile, it must be well covered for the winter. For this purpose, you can use tops, autumn leaves, grass (if there are no seeds in it), straw or sawdust. You can also wrap the garden bed if you plant buckwheat, mustard or peas after harvesting. These crops will have time to germinate before the first snowfalls, and the new growth will cover the ground with itself, and then become a good source of organic matter.
2. Another valuable tip for those who do not want to spend a lot of time caring for the beds. It is important that the tool is convenient and of high quality. This will greatly facilitate the work and allow you to use the hoe and hoe for many years without making an annual replacement.
3. Be sure to install a convenient irrigation system, this will save a lot of time and make the beds fertile. If the budget is limited, you can build a similar system with your own hands - the drip method is suitable, as well as sprinkling.
4. If watering the plants daily does not work, you can do this once or twice a week. It is only important to try to watering was plentiful. Mulched soil can retain moisture for a long time.

As you can see, a lazy vegetable garden is not a very difficult task if you approach it with some preparation.

Collecting a solid harvest and not bending your back from morning to evening on your own plot is within the power of any summer resident.

It is only important to rethink your attitude to such things as weeding, plant nutrition, so as not to make mistakes and learn to enjoy relaxing in your own garden.

Source: https://SamoDelino.ru/poliv-i-uhod/sad-i-ogorod-svoimi-rukami-lenivyj.html

Beds for the "lazy": how to get a rich harvest

Caring for a garden and garden is a troublesome and time-consuming task. Previously, it was believed that it was necessary to dig beds in the garden in spring and autumn, modern trends in caring for garden plants do not require deep digging of the soil.

The percentage of manual labor in caring for the garden is unreasonably high, so gardeners get some relief when arranging high beds (beds for the "lazy"). This article is all about the arrangement of high beds (their size, selection of garden and ornamental crops).

Photo gallery and detailed video - to help beginners.

Garden for the "lazy": how to arrange beds

The lion's share of labor in growing vegetables falls on loosening the soil, weeding and harvesting. What unites all these works? They are very heavy, when growing vegetables according to the classical scheme, you have to be in a bent, twisted state for a long time, which is bad for human health.

Raised bed preparation

An excellent solution for a sore back is the equipment of high beds, when plants can be looked after without bending your back. The optimal size of such beds is from 2.2 to 3.5 meters in length, with a width of 1 meter.

First, the beds are marked on the site, outlining their dimensions on the ground. Then, on the bayonet of the shovel, the mainland soil is plowed inside the outlined contours. The earth is removed, a non-woven material (in 2 layers) is laid at the bottom of the resulting trench, which will protect the future bed from weed germination.

Important! Non-woven material does not interfere with the flow of water and air access to the roots of plants.

A special box is installed on top of the beds, made of wood according to the size of the excavated beds, which is filled with fresh soil mixture with the addition of leafy soil, sand, peat and black soil. Corner bars are dug into the ground by 12-15 cm, having previously prepared holes. The verticality of the walls of the beds during installation is constantly controlled by the level so that there are no bulges and distortions.

• Plants planted in such a bed practically do not suffer from the dominance of weeds, they are easy to water and treat with chemicals from pests.
• A ripening crop does not touch the ground, so vegetables and berries spoil less.
• The soil around the beds does not need to be dug up, and the surface of the soil in the beds is easy to loosen.
• It is very convenient to plant early crops in high beds - the beds thaw under the first rays of the sun, while the main soil on the site is still frost-bound.
• You can easily install special arcs for a greenhouse in the box, it is convenient to cover the greenhouse with a film that will not fly off or tear. Early greens work great in high beds, delighting with a rich harvest.

In addition to wood, the walls of a high bed can be made of stone, brick, plastic. In each household, unnecessary barrels, large plastic and metal containers can accumulate.

These bulky things can do an excellent job when growing zucchini, cucumbers, strawberries. To drain excess fluid at the bottom, it is worth making several holes.

The barrel is filled with branches, weeds, sprinkling a layer of weeds with a layer of nutrient soil, then filled almost to the top with nutrient soil. Plant cucumbers - a high yield is guaranteed.

In addition to cucumbers, strawberries grow well in barrels, which are planted in "pockets" on the sides of the barrel (preferably made of plastic). Berry whiskers hang down the walls of the barrel without touching the ground. Berries are not eaten by hedgehogs, slugs, they do not rot from contact with wet ground.

Raised bed irrigation system

How to water high beds?

Of course, you can leave the old hoses to water the garden from the high beds. But moving them around the site is completely inconvenient - high beds interfere. Therefore, it is useful to install an irrigation system, which will significantly save your time and reduce water consumption.

Irrigation hoses should be attached to the sides of high beds, so it is more convenient to water the plants. You can hear different opinions about the irrigation system - many gardeners complain about its high cost. You can purchase a system that has a low price, but is able to serve faithfully for more than a dozen years.

Advantages of bulk raised beds

You can create such a bed in a very short time at any place. It will take only a few hours to set up a garden using the new technology.

• When preparing the soil, no special treatment of the soil added to the bed is required.
• In high beds, there is an increased activity of beneficial microorganisms that are involved in soil preparation.
• The beds contribute to the preservation of moisture and high temperature, which increases due to the greenhouse effect from the decay of plant residues.

Raised beds are easier to handle

• Weeds grow around the beds without breaking through the 2 layers of non-woven fabric that line the beds from the inside. It is good to mulch the space between the beds with colored chips, gravel or decorative gravel, so it is possible to reduce the number of weeds.
• On high beds, you can do the work of caring for vegetables and ornamental plants much faster.
• The bed has been serving for more than one year, so the initial costs of arranging the garden itself for the “lazy” and the irrigation system pay off in the first year.
• The bed can be cared for from two sides, this will facilitate access to each plant, allow you to monitor the health of vegetable crops, and in case of infectious diseases, it will help to carry out timely processing.

For growing climbing plants - trellises

Climbing plants are ideally placed on plastic mesh trellises. So you can plant peas, beans, cucumbers, tall tomatoes. Vegetable plants, climbing a strong plastic mesh with a large mesh, cling to the ledges with their antennae, and the crop remains in high safety, because insects and animals do not reach it.

Advice! It is noted that when grown on a trellis, cucumbers are less susceptible to fungal diseases.

The suburban area, with all its advantages, has one drawback - it takes a lot of time to devote to it.

And if it is also located quite far from home, then the owner has something to think about.

And yet there is a way out: let's see how to equip a garden and a vegetable garden for lazy (due to circumstances) summer residents.

Garden for the lazy

The main task for such land is to give maximum yield with minimum labor costs. Of course, will have to work but without too much fanaticism. Yes, and knowledge of agricultural technology is useful.

Many experienced gardeners and gardeners have similar plots, who know from their own experience that “extra movements” turn out to be just a waste of effort and money.

For a dacha that is visited once a week, this is especially true. Indeed, in addition to modern citizens, they also want to relax in the air.

Therefore, even before the start of the season, many people think about.

Where to start: laying out a lazy garden or vegetable garden

Before we get to work, let's see what styles are most popular today.

Important! It is worth taking on such a redevelopment if the cottage is at least somehow guarded and there are no problems with water.

The most suitable direction would be "country" - everything is deliberately simple in it, improvised materials are used and there is always a place to relax. That's what "lazy ranch" looks like.

Lovers of beautiful views can stop at the landscape style: they are used for decoration, adapted to local conditions and not requiring special care. who need frequent, and can be excluded.

Lush dachas in the Dutch style are pleasing to the eye, but are hardly appropriate here. The cost of such beauty is already more, and the time saved on often goes to the arrangement, and not to rest.

The seating area is already a matter of taste. Usually they try to place it so that you can put a barbecue and leave some space for a playground for children. The main thing is that "relaxation" does not harm the plants.

Did you know? Country estates appeared under Peter I and for a long time remained a kind of countryside salons in the open air. There, in warm weather, the whole color of the aristocracy gathered.

Or put, looking closely at the relief. The barbecue area (as well as) is often surrounded by large granite, sprinkled with sand, gravel or pebbles. Vertical will provide a pleasant shade, but at the same time the arch should not block the light growing nearby.

A lazy gardener can tell a lot to beginners. Let's dwell on the most important points that you have to keep in mind.

Geographic features

To harvest the maximum yield with minimal care, they are guided by local conditions.

It is better to opt for plants and varieties, customary for a particular region. They will accept without much hassle. Seasonal digging, and even more so construction, does not fit into the concept of a “lazy site”, therefore we cross out too heat-loving species from the list.

Of course, they are pleasing to the eye, but they are not suitable for areas with a harsh climate. Take a closer look at the neighboring areas - there are probably spectacular and unpretentious plants that will immediately "grow".

Disease and pest resistance

Choose the most resistant varieties. Gardeners know that they will not do without processing, but it is important for us to reduce such manipulations to a minimum - once, maximum two per season.

In addition to the seedlings themselves, the condition of the soil is also important. Salt areas and land that has not been treated for a long time increase the risk. After some time, the leaves may become stained or turn yellow, the roots or stem dry out.

To avoid such symptoms, take an interest in the "survivability" of different varieties. Yes, and such a factor as the state of the neighbor's "patches" also plays a role - if there is a mess, they can safely move on to prosperous beds for the lazy. For prevention, friends to everyone are planted or.

Preference for large perennials

Large plants with a multi-year growth cycle do not cause trouble. This applies to:

• hops;
• long-growing flowers ( , );

You can add to this list, but trimming it also takes time.

Did you know? The end of the 1960s in the USSR was marked by an increase in interest in. By that time, many restrictions had already been lifted, and with some luck, the townspeople could become the owners of the coveted six acres.

Such beds are often surrounded by a border, giving them an arbitrary shape (most often these are squares, but circles also come across).

Caring for seedlings comes down to the usual procedures for watering, weeding and fertilizing. But there are tricks that can save time and effort.

Mulching

A main plastic pipe of the required diameter is started with a coupling at one end (to connect to a tap) and a plug at the other. Wiring to the sides is done by installing tees. Holes are made at the level of the row, where a nipple is inserted, connected to a tape, which is folded at the other edge.

Having screwed the coupling on the tap, slowly turn on the water, adjusting the pressure. The drops will evenly moisten the soil, and you won't have to run around with a hose and overpay for water.

Did you know? The 1980s were marked by a real dacha boom. Garden associations were created at various enterprises, and the harvested crops slightly counterbalanced the shortage of products, which became chronic.

For the winter, the tape is simply twisted until the next season.

A typical summer resident always works hard in his garden. In the spring, he plows or digs up the plot, fertilizes the land, carries out sowing, which includes the constant planting of potatoes. Then, all summer long, he weeds, runs to the beds with heavy watering cans, loosens, spuds, stepson ... Such an approach to gardening at FORUMHOUSE is firmly a thing of the past. In this article, we will tell you what modern methods are used by the participants of our portal.

RIS Member of FORUMHOUSE

Neighbors in the country dig, water, water, and mulching, flat-cutting and narrow beds are considered nonsense and nonsense. I don’t want to offend anyone, but gardening, as my parents did, is very difficult.

Organic farming in the country

Many FORUMHOUSE residents are the most ardent supporters of the organic farming method, in which the cultivation of fruits takes place in complete harmony with nature, according to the principle of "do not remake nature, but help it." Strict followers of this method do not use a shovel and a chopper, do not remove weeds, and work for several days during the season - the rest of the time they harvest.

Basic principles of organic farming. Proponents of organic farming:

• they do not plow and do not dig up the ground, the maximum that is allowed is to loosen the soil with a Fokin flat cutter to a depth of 5-7 cm.
• never use herbicides. Good agricultural technology is the key to a healthy plant, and in the gardens of well-known organists there are no aphids, fungal diseases, or the Colorado potato beetle. And if diseases and pests still appear, they are treated with microbial solutions, folk remedies or biological products.
• do not use mineral fertilizers: only compost, rotted manure, mulch, warm beds, etc. can be used.
• they try to attract as many earthworms as possible to their site and stimulate the work of soil microorganisms.
• actively mulch both beds and paths. Agronomist Nikolai Kurdyumov, the author of the “smart garden” system, says that mulching will not get rid of weeds at all, but it’s easier to “tear out one weed exhausted by the struggle for rooting” than to be on duty with a chopper all the time. But the main purpose of mulch is not even weed control, but the preservation of moisture, increasing soil fertility and improving its structure.

Adhering to these principles on his site, the summer resident pursues three goals:

1. increase soil fertility (every year it gets better and better);
2. grow exceptionally healthy and tasty fruits without any chemicals;
3. reduce the time spent on working in the beds, make work easier.

Asemenich Member of FORUMHOUSE

But OZ in the economy requires exceptional consistency and high technological discipline! And without it, it's better not to start ...

Permaculture by Sepp Holzer

Permaculture is a direction in organic farming, which was founded by the famous Austrian naturalist Sepp Holzer together with two friends.

Permaculturologists set themselves the task of creating a vegetable garden that will take care of itself. To do this, they select plants that stimulate each other's growth, do not compete for nutrients in the soil, and repel pests from each other.

Artecology Member of FORUMHOUSE

The Art of the Lazy Master! This is how I would characterize the concept of permaculture in relation to all of us.

Member of our portal with a nickname ShadeXXX using the principles of permaculture, he is trying to revive his site in the steppes of Kazakhstan. Now there is nothing alive on his clay plot, except for dry stunted grass and mosquitoes, but he is sure that in a few years there will be a garden and a pond.

lazy bagel garden

One of the most famous permaculturologists in the post-Soviet space is Boris Bublik. He believes that any work with a chopper and a shovel harms the garden: you just need not interfere with nature, but rather help it by planting suitable plants nearby.

He does not remove weeds, works in the garden for only a few days per season, and practically does not care for him. The garden grows according to the principle of "edible forest", by itself, without human intervention. In the photo - the garden of Boris Bublik.

This is a rather radical approach, and among FORUMHOUSE organic farming supporters, the attitude towards bagel ambiguous: "he is more of an orator than a scientist." But this prevents the participants of our portal from successfully using many of the techniques of a permaculturologist. Especially garden tools of his invention (or based on them).

A potato planting tool, or as the permaculturist himself calls it, "potato horseradish" is a thick stalk into which a nail is driven to control the depth of the hole. Bagel does not plant whole potatoes, but eyes from the largest tubers.

In the photo below - "potato horseradish" by a member of our portal with the nickname Deppert.

Deppert

Che stared with his carved eyes, poked the holes more tightly, put the germinated eyes into the holes and trampled them down. All. Planting 4 varieties of potatoes took about an hour of leisurely work with smoke breaks.

Bagel does not sow seeds in even rows, he considers it pointless. He has about ten portable seeders - one and a half liter plastic bottles with holes in the bottoms. In each seeder, holes of certain sizes are very small, for carrots, larger, for beets, etc. The gardener randomly scatters seeds with seeders over the beds, covers them with earth with a rake or a flat cutter - that's all.

The summer resident should not stand over the garden bed, bending over the letter "g", considers Bagel. He sows large seeds through a long pipe, first making holes with a peg (in the photo this pipe is on the far right).

Another know-how: self-sowing beds. Onions and garlic are not completely harvested in August, the seeds crumble, and in the spring the summer resident, without hitting a finger on a finger, has a sown bed!

Book Bagel became the primer of organic farming for our participant with the nickname Sly Fox. Thanks to this book, the forum member stopped perceiving the dacha as a place of hard labor and shared useful information with all members of the forum.

Sly Fox

My main task in the "garden" period was to escape from the summer cottage by any means. I read it, and I “pecked”, so much so that every day, month, year, it’s more and more difficult to get me out of the garden-garden-front garden.

Narrow beds according to Mittlider

Jacob Mittlider - Doctor of Agricultural Sciences. The task of his system: to get outstanding yields from a small area garden without much difficulty. The system stands on two pillars:

1. Narrow ridges and wide passages between them. We talked in detail about this technology, which provides plants with optimal lighting. Beds and passages never change places.

Michurinets Member of FORUMHOUSE

What can be done in the country in a couple of days, and even then after a full working week? This article is for those who love and want to enjoy the time spent in nature, and not with a chopper in their hands - for moderately lazy gardeners.

If it turns out that things in the garden do not argue, and rest really does not work. If you are not a frequent guest in the country, but you want your garden to bring a rich harvest in the fall, before lying imposingly in a hammock and being lazy, you should show interest in organizing ideal conditions for growth in the garden and garden, but without your unceasing participation .

Where to start a garden for the lazy?

In order to save time for work and plenty of rest, we will apply a little ingenuity, and then we will build a garden for the lazy with love. So, the garden is beds, greenhouses, flower beds. For everything to grow and bear fruit create ideal conditions:

• Let's think: is it really necessary to recklessly plant all six acres with boring vegetables, do we really need tons of potatoes, cabbage and tomatoes in the fall?
• Every self-respecting lazy person will surely come up with a place to relax, whether it is a barbecue area, a beautiful lawn for sunbathing or a play area for growing gardeners. And then, I would like to leave room for a beautiful flower bed (preferably from perennials, to deal with it every few years).
• Remember that if there is no need to dig all the earth on the site, this does not need to be done. The soil should breathe, freely pass moisture, and not be open layers dried by the sun.
• Having chosen and prepared a place for a garden, we will think about minimizing our precious labor in the garden.
• You need to start with mulching the beds (unless, of course, the land on your site is initially not favorable). Wood shavings, withered foliage, mowed grass, etc. are suitable as mulch. The main advantage of mulch is that it protects the soil from burning out and reliably retains moisture. Therefore, if your visits to the dacha are limited to one or two times a week, it is better to cover the beds with an organic “blanket” in advance.

By the way, there is another great mulching material for a lazy garden- last year's seeds of lettuce, carrots, herbs, chard. In the spring, having prepared a place for planting the main crops, all the old seeds are mixed and scattered over the beds, then the earth is loosened and watered. Everything, mulching material, and at the same time a delicious salad is laid! And when the time comes to plant the desired vegetables - the holes are made right among the green growing rug, the plants that interfere strongly will go to the table. The benefits of such a "live" mulch are enormous: the formed thick green mat protects the plantings and the ground from strong winds, temperature changes and excessive sun. It keeps the bed in place, preventing it from sprawling, and promotes the activation of the right bacteria, creating a favorable microclimate in the garden, which will undoubtedly increase the yield and reduce the time spent in constant weeding and watering. Why not a garden for the lazy? Organizing an irrigation system in a lazy garden Let's talk about the most important and most time-consuming laziness after a working week - about watering. In order not to drag hoses and watering cans around the garden, consider a drip irrigation system in the spring, and it is not necessary to buy a complete installation kit with sensors and filters at exorbitant prices. You can limit yourself to just hoses and a switch lever. So when you get to the garden on the weekend, you lazily organize the work of watering the garden, and you yourself will do more pleasant things. And if possible, it would be nice to connect the automation - then the garden itself will generally take care of watering, focusing on the state of soil moisture. Selection of garden tools We buy only what we need, in the right quantity and of the right quality. Here are the main principles of buying equipment for the garden. For example, before laying the lawn, it would be wise to think about the fact that after three weeks it will have to be cut regularly. We'll have to fork out for lawn mowing equipment. And it’s better if it is a high-quality and safe lawn mower that can quickly cut and collect mowed grass behind it without exhausting the owner of this lawn, but isn’t this the main thing in a lazy garden? Properly selected garden tools are a great help to a lazy gardener. Shovels, rakes, pitchforks, watering cans, buckets are selected so that they serve for more than a dozen years and, most importantly, are easy to use. Of course, plastic in gardening equipment is time and money down the drain, it’s better not to skimp and buy one, but a high-quality shovel.

What to plant in the garden for the lazy?

Here are some important points when choosing plants for planting in the garden, so that you work less and harvest a good harvest?

1. First, when choosing varieties of vegetables, pay attention to those that are well-established and unpretentious and resistant to your climate.
2. Secondly, you need to protect plantings from pests and diseases, for this you should not be lazy and plant defender plants that save plantings from harmful insects, and improve the soil. These plants include some flowers familiar to everyone since childhood: nasturtiums, calendula, borago, etc.
3. And, thirdly, the more garden crops are planted, the more time and effort they will take, so plant only those vegetables and plants that you really need.

And to make being in the garden a pleasure, hang a hammock between the trees and after hard gardening work, do not forget to just lie down and enjoy a quiet summer evening to the chirping of birds. After all, that’s what a cottage is for!