How to grow oats

To grow oats can not only commercially, but also on private land and even on the windowsill. In the garden, this culture can be used for mulching and as green manure to fertilize the soil and to "score" the weeds. Grown at home or in the beds, green shoots of oats added to the diet of domestic animals, is used for making healing potions. Ripened grain can be used in food, and cut ears of corn to decorate the interior in country style.

You will need

• - Grain oats;
• - humus and ash;
• - potassium permanganate and water;
• - shovel and rake;
• the harrow or the hoe;
• floral container;
• - expanded clay;
• - sawdust;
• - drainage in the briquette and palm fibre (according to availability);
• gardening soil;
• - plastic film;

Instruction

1. Learn the features of the oat-growing and caring for him, before the sowing of the grain. It's not particularly fussy culture - it is hardy and survives well in different soils. However, the oats especially loves full sun and responds well to fertilizer: per square meter of garden you enough to make about 5 kg of humus and a glass of ashes.
2. Use as seed material of grain crops grown in your area. So they are not sick, before sowing soak them in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for 20-30 minutes and rinse with cold water.
3. Early spring (late April-early may) proryhlit the soil for planting oats and make furrows. Their depth will depend on the characteristics of the soil in your garden. If it's heavy and wet, you can sprinkle the seeds with a layer of earth about 3 cm; easy and fast soil drying up the desired layer of about 5, and in arid places up to 7 cm Between the rows sown oats leave 10-15 cm of Soil is a little compact with a rake, and the top sprinkle a little sawdust for better moisture retention.
4. Cut away green shoots appeared with a height of about 7-10 cm to feed Pets or healing. It is believed that these sprouts oats contain the greatest amount of useful vitamins and minerals. If you use the grass as fertilizer, zuphite it into the soil while it is still green. It must be done a week before planting vegetable seedlings (e.g., bell peppers or tomatoes). Oats to ear don't forget to preoborudvat during tillering to help him deal with the weeds.
5. Prepare the container for growing oats at home. The bottom of the well to cover the expanded clay or pour a small (about 3 cm) layer of sawdust. If you find in a flower shop briquette drainage of palm bark, macerate it, and sprinkle the second layer. Embed ' earth from the garden so that the top edge of the container remained free 4-5 see Cover the soil with a thick layer of oat grains and soak them with water. From above it is advisable to sprinkle more than light soil. You can mix garden land with shop fibers of palm tree or simple sawdust. Finally, liberally pour his "bed".
6. Cover the container with plastic wrap and put it in a dark place for a couple days. When the first shoots of oats, put the herbs on the window sill, balcony or veranda on the Sunny side. As the soil is drying out water shoots, and after a few weeks you will be able to release your Pets a little "graze" on the healing bed.