Oats and their cultivation

Oats are an increasingly popular crop. This is due, first of all, to the beneficial properties of this plant for humans and for the soil. Oats are best grown after legumes, winter crops, potatoes and corn.

You should not start growing oats after beets, as they dry out the soil a lot. And oats put forward serious requirements for the presence of moisture in the soil. It is more optimal to choose a slightly different crop rotation: after the beets, plant corn, and then - oats or other moisture-loving crops.

Growing oats

You may have heard that oats grow in almost any soil. However, if you want to get a larger yield, it is worth adding lime to the soil with high acidity. Also, acidic soil can be neutralized with phosphate flour, which, in addition to its main role, will improve the nutrition of oats with phosphorus.

If sowing oats are grown on peat soil, then copper, manganese fertilizers, boron should be added even before applying phosphate-potassium fertilizing.

Oats, which cannot be called difficult to grow, ripen unevenly. First you will see the grains appear at the top of the panicle. You need to harvest oats then, it is this grain that will fully ripen.

By the way, many gardeners sow oats not at all for harvesting, but for improving the soil. Its root system goes deep into the soil, which provides better aeration and loosening. And the biomass itself can be used as fertilizer for other plants that are of great value to you.