How to make warm beds in spring: instructions

Recently, many summer residents are arranging so-called "warm beds" on their sites - high rectangular structures filled with compost, branches, leaves and fertile soil. In the spring, above their sides, arcs are installed from the rod, and the film is stretched. This design allows planting seedlings 2-4 weeks earlier than usual. Do warm beds usually in the fall. However, if desired, you can arrange them in the spring. The main thing is not to use fresh manure as a lining. So, let's see how to make warm beds in the spring.

Material selection

The boards of these ridges are most often made of edged, rather thick (20 mm) boards. This material conducts heat poorly and is very easy to process. Sometimes a flat slate is used for boards . This material is more durable than wood, but it keeps heat worse. In addition, when using it, it is necessary to make a rigid frame from a thin profile pipe. Otherwise, when weeding or planting seedlings on the sharp edges of the sides, you can simply cut yourself. Both wood and slate have, therefore, both their own merits and demerits. From which material to make the skirts - to decide the owners of the site. Sometimes the device of a warm bed is made and with use of more thorough elements. For example, a brick or a stone. This is the most durable and reliable option. However, stone or brick beds, of course, is very expensive.

In the case of using slate or wood to support the sides, it will also be necessary to prepare a profile pipe. Arcs can be made from a metal rod with a diameter of 8 mm or from PVC pipes. The film for warm beds is used standard polyethylene technical or intended for greenhouses.

Manufacturing of wooden boards

The question of how to make warm beds in the spring is reduced, among other things, to the correct choice of their size. The height of the beads of this design is usually 40 cm. In this case, the roots of the plants will receive enough heat. Yes, and handle the bed will be more convenient. The experienced summer gardeners are not advised to do more than 80 cm in width. The optimal parameter is 60 cm. The length of the frame can be any.

Collecting beds in the spring, when the garden is still too damp, it is better not in place, but in a workshop or somewhere in the yard, in a dry place. Wooden boards are made as follows:

• Assemble the ends of beds. Make them from pieces of a board of 60 see To each from both edges nail on two angular pieces from profile pipes. Thus, the ends of the sides are made for all the beds.
• Further sections of the profile pipe with a step of approximately 2 meters are screwed to the future long sides.
• The latter are then attached to the angled profile tubes on the end members.
• The resulting designs are transferred to the garden, set to the right place and leveled. It is not necessary to dig a ground under a skeleton or even to remove a turf.

Continue the construction of a warm garden bed in spring by pulling opposite profiles of the flanges with a rod (in pairs). This will give the stiffness design. If this is not done, the bed is simply dispersed. In particular, carrots and other root crops are strongly "bred".

How to bend a rod correctly

How to make a warm patch in the spring - for you now not a question. In order for the seedlings to feel even better in it, the construction in April-May, before the establishment of stable warm weather, will have to be covered with a film. It stretches on the arc, which can also be made independently. To ensure that these props are neat, you should first make a simple template. For this, an arc of the necessary radius and length is drawn on a piece of plywood. Next, the resulting contour is packed (up to half) with nails. At the ends of the arc, they should be scored in two on the same level. Then each rod simply bends over the nails.

How to make slats from slate

In this case the frame is prefabricated from the profile pipe. Fastening is usually done with bolts. If the farm has appropriate equipment, the frame can be welded. The pipe is to be painted before slate is attached.

Since the beds of this material are very heavy, the welded skeletons should be moved and installed to the chosen place in the garden. Next to the elements of the construction is fastened the slate itself (from inside the frame). The fixation in this case is also made with bolts.

How to fill a bed

So, we have found out how to make warm beds in the spring. Now let's see what is needed to fill them in order to obtain a better effect of heating the roots of plants. First of all, beds should be properly arranged. Usually finished frames are placed in the direction from north to south. So the plants will be illuminated longer: in the morning on the east side, in the daytime - from the top and in the evening - from the west. In the shade, warm beds are not installed. Otherwise, in the first year, a lot of nitrates are formed in the soil.

Fill the warm beds (according to composting rules) layers in the following order:

• There is a drainage of branches, decaying boards, logs, etc. First, large fractions are laid, then smaller ones.
• The drainage is spread over the organics. When laying, alternate carbonaceous (dry foliage, paper, old rags, sunflower stalks) and nitrogenous layers (leaves, grass, food waste, repelled manure, etc.). To speed up the process of decomposition, it is worth pouring organic chemicals on special biologics. At the last stage it should be tamped.

In a week, after the bed is warmed up properly, the garden soil is poured into it. In order that the rootlets of plants are not burned, its layer should be at least 25-30 cm. On this device a warm garden bed in spring can be considered finished. All other actions can be aimed only at improving its performance.

How to make a greenhouse

Part of one of the warm beds can be covered with a small mini-greenhouse. As a frame for such a design, it is allowed to use a metal painted rod, bar or PVC pipes. Walls, a door, a ventilator and a roof are usually made of polycarbonate. Shatter the framework of the desired shape will not be difficult. When securing polycarbonate, you should follow certain rules. This material is able to expand with increasing / decreasing air temperature. Therefore, fix it to the frame by means of special screws with thermal washers. The holes under them drill a little more than the rods, the diameter. The construction of a warm garden with a greenhouse will allow seedlings to be planted even earlier. Time to produce it will take a little.

Structures in the greenhouse

Usually warm beds arrange directly in the open air. However, you can make them in the greenhouse already installed in the garden. Collect such structures with this from the same materials. The question of how to make warm beds in the spring in a greenhouse is technologically completely not complicated. The method of manufacturing them entirely repeats the above. The only thing - in this case, the beds should be made not too high (20 cm).

The construction of a warm garden bed in the greenhouse will help to get an even earlier harvest. However, since the air temperature inside this room will be higher than on the street, it is important to ensure that the roots do not overheat. At a temperature Soil in 30-45 degrees the growth of plants slows down. Also it is necessary to arrange drip irrigation in the beds.

What plants and how to plant

Since the first two years in the soil of such beds, a lot of nitrogen accumulates, during this period it is not recommended to plant cultures-nitrate accumulators. These include herbs (dill, onions, lettuce, spinach, etc.), beets and radish. In the first year, it is best to plant a pumpkin, zucchini, tomato, pepper or eggplant on a warm patch, that is, plants that require a high content of nutrients in the soil. In the second year cabbages, celery or salads are usually planted in their place.

Many summer residents are advised after sowing early crops to plant warm beds with siderates. This will replenish the supply of nutrients. In addition, the so prepared soil does not require digging in the spring. All that needs to be done is to cover the remains of dead siderates by loosening. How to make warm beds in the spring (photos of such designs can be seen on the page), and also how to plant seedlings on them, you now know. What else should be done to facilitate the care of crops and accelerate the ripening of the crop? Read about it below.

Mulching

Most often, sawdust or straw is used for this purpose. It will be very good to close the soil under the plants, too, with mown dried grass. Preliminary it should be chopped with a hatchet. Soil microorganisms begin to process grass from the place of cutting. Therefore, such a litter will decompose faster, while providing the necessary carbon dioxide for vegetable crops . Mulching on warm beds, among other things, allows the soil to retain moisture for longer. Also, a layer of organic material or a film will prevent the growth of weeds all summer. And this, in turn, will facilitate the care of plants.

Flower beds

How to make warm beds in the spring, you now know. However, what if there is no material or time for their manufacture, and you want to plant tomatoes early? In this case, you can try to build warm flower beds. The difference between them and the beds is, first of all, a smaller size. As side walls, you can use, for example, old car tires placed in three rows. Filling in this case is the same. In the middle is to stick a stake or rod. They will support the film in the spring.

Of course, many cultures on such beds can not fit. But a few bushes tomato, cucumber, onions, pumpkin or zucchini on them to grow quite possibly.

As you can see, the question of how to make a warm patch in the spring with your own hands is not particularly complicated. With high-quality material and skillful hands, the finished structures will turn out to be convenient, reliable and will last for a long time. Good harvests to you!