How to grow oats

It is mistaken that Oats is a fodder culture, because in agriculture oats it is customary to feed livestock. But if you read the characteristics of this plant in more detail, you can conclude that Oats is useful for human health, which can be grown on its own site.

In those days, when people were only mastered agriculture, Oats were considered a weed grass and only after a while, this Zlak was noticed.

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Oats is considered a young culture in agriculture. The first mentions of this creek were marked in the 4th century BC. People circled oats on large plantations to feed the horses, and then they themselves began to eat this useful grace.

Currently, it is customary to grow 2 types of oats:

1. Sowing (variety "Avena Sativ").
2. Byzantine.

The first type of oats is spread throughout, almost 90% of the fields are sown with this type of cereal culture.

In nature, there are many species of oats. Surely you heard about such a form like sandy oats. It can also be raised at its summer cottage, but for this it is necessary to observe certain conditions. This kind of cereal feels well on sandy soils, hence the name. Motherland of sandy oats is the Mediterranean. This is the most ancient cultural type of oats.

The varieties of sowing oats are also quite a lot, but it is more wild cultures that can be found in nature. You can distinguish each type of oats by external signs. If you carefully look at the usual sowing oats, then you will see that the "tongue" have teeth, but there are no characteristic wild cultures of the "ears" of this plant. The spikes themselves are not so tightly, but if they make them up to even a primitive way (manually), they quickly share the grain.

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There are varieties of sowing oats: it is a hunger form. The name itself speaks for itself - that the grains easily fall out of their scales.

In short, consider the characteristics of the Mediterranean (or Byzantine oats). This type of cerebral is more grown in Central Asia. Spikelets are large, with 3 or 4 flowers. This type of oats is highly resistant to cold and drought, a period of flowering and ripening is short.

Oats - culture persistent, so grow alone this cereal on its plot solid pleasure. Spring seeds already at a temperature of +3 ^oC, shoots are not afraid of frosts and able to withstand the temperature to -5 ^oS. But this applies only to the appearance of the first germs, but an adult plant is extremely negatively withstanding high temperature, in severe heat (up to +40 ^oC), the plant dies.

Oats loves moisture very much, so wet soils are just suitable for sowing oats. By the way, any soil for growing oats will fit any, this culture feels well on podzolic and soup soil, peatlands. High yields can be achieved if you feel the soil with nitric fertilizers.

Preparation and sowing of oats

Good predecessors for growing oats are potatoes, legumes, corn and winter. In agriculture, the field, where the beets were grown last year, often used for sowing oats. But this is most likely a need, because sugar beets strongly overwhelms the soil, and for this creek needed increased humidity. After growing the coarse, it is best to plant corn in this place, and after collecting the harvest, sowing oats is allowed.

If we are talking about mass sowing of oats, then it is necessary to plow the ground (depth of 25 cm). If the sowing of the cog was grown in this place, beets or corn, then it is necessary to make a malicious plowing to get rid of beetphung and other pests.

Before boarding, it is advisable to feather the soil with phosphoritic flour to reduce its acidity. If the soil is peat, then it is necessary to make fertilizers containing manganese, boron and copper.

For seeding oats, only select seeds are used. If you independently select the landing material, pay attention to the size of the upper and lower grains in the spikelet: the first will be more, they will germinate faster. Choose dense seeds, without visible signs of damage.

Before boarding the landing material, it is necessary to withstand in a manganese solution for 20 minutes to avoid contamination of shoots after sowing.

The timing of sowing oats is the same with the planting of spring cultures - the end of April, while the soil is still wet. If gathered to plant peas, barley and wheat, just time to start landing for oats. If you be late with the deadlines at least 10 days, then the yield decreases by 25%. Because Oats is a grain culture, it is necessary to sung by Zlak with a narrow-handed way: 1 ha accounts for about 4.5-5.5 million seeds. The depth of "wrapping" seeds is small, since the oat seeds are lungs (if you compare with wheat). On average, if the soil is well moistened, then the seal can be made to a depth of 4 cm, the light soils - 6 cm, for arid areas - 7 cm.

Harvesting

The cultivation of oats - the task is not difficult, since the culture quickly matures and is already approximately 120 days later from the date of landing, you can proceed to the harvest. As mentioned earlier, it is only important not to miss the seed seed dates in order not to lose yield.

To ensure normal development, it is necessary to moisten the soil in a timely manner. If this is not done, then the losses will be significant. In order to facilitate the task, it is necessary to install the watering system on the site and in the hot time to constantly monitor the level of soil moisture. If there is time, then you need to loose soil.

If you adhere to the technology of growing oats, then in order to accelerate the duration of the ripening of the cereal, the soil must be attached. Thus, you can get rid of not only from the crust formed on the surface (harrowing), but also remove the plugs after the first germination (thinning, getting rid of weed grass).

Oats - culture interesting, be prepared for the fact that you will not see friendly maturation. First, the first upper grains mature (the upper part of the pancake), and then gradually and the rest of the grains.

Cleaning needs to be performed after full ripening of grains, when most of them reach "wax" maturity. Harvesting on the summer site is performed manually, cutting spikelets, which are then desirable to tie into separate shens. Keep the harvest is needed in a well-ventilated room. After the final drying, the spikelet can be spacing, and the resulting crop is used for its intended purpose.

How to grow oats on the windowsill

Genuine oats seeds can be at home. Such a product is rich in nutrients. Even in the Middle Ages, people cooked kislets and cereals from sprouted seeds. Currently, the benefits of young seedlings of oats are proved, just to buy this product is almost impossible, since fragile sprouts are poorly transferred and quickly deteriorate. The only right solution is to grow Oat yourself.

The benefits of sprouted oats are huge: it is not only an improvement in well-being, but also getting rid of the majority of the problems of the digestive system (the work of the stomach, intestines), blood formation organs, the acceleration of metabolism.

If you have grown on your own Oats on your site, then you need to select ripe and clean seeds without signs of rot and fungus. After preparation, you can immediately begin to germinate the seeds of oats.

For germination, seeds will need:

• water;
• capacity;
• gauze.

In addition, it is necessary to ensure good lighting and observe the temperature regime. Once again before putting seeds into the container, check each grade: if they have noticed spoiled seeds or damaged, they need to be put aside.

Selected seeds Put in the container, it can be a glass or porcelain blade (you can take a cup), enameled dishes are also allowed to use, but there is no aluminum.

First prepare the seeds: place the handful of oats in a sieve, substitute water to a stream to rinse seeds. After washing, you need to place cereals in the prepared pure container and pour water (2 cm above seeds). Leave the container for 8 hours. During this time, seeds will take up to 60% moisture. We drag the water, we rinse the seeds again under the stream of cool water. You will see that the seeds have increased, that is, Nobukhley.

Now you need to straighten the wet marla (you can fold in several layers), lay out in 1 layer of seeds, they also need to be littered from above. You can use the usual cut of pure fabric. Put the container into a warm and well-lit place, fit warm windowsill. Temperature in this place should be no lower than +22 ^oC. Make sure that the straight sun rays do not fall on the seeds.

After 8 hours, the first sprouts will appear, they can be washed and eating them. ATTENTION: It is allowed to eat only sprouts that have reached 2-6 mm, if the sprouts are long and green, that is, they can not, since they are poisonous.

Sprouts need to put in the refrigerator, there they will continue growth. Although not so rapidly. Water that was merged, do not thump, it can be used for watering room crops.

When is it best to eat sprouted oats? Experts recommend to eat oats seedlings in the morning. Since there are a lot of protein in such grains, it is undesirable to eat nuts and protein products (fish, cottage cheese, meat and eggs).

How to grow oats for pets

In the cold season, please our pets (rabbits, dogs, parrots, guinea pigs and cats) delicious and useful delicacy - young oats. Grow Oats at home for pets is easily and even interesting.

What will take:

• selected seeds of non-readed oats;
• capacity with low sidelights;
• water;
• sawdust.

How to grow oats on the windowsill:

1. Take the appropriate container, it must be dry and clean. You can use a plastic tray for growing seedlings with low sidelights.
2. In the tray, we smell small sawdust (without additives). The sawdust layer should not be too thick, given the 2 more layers: Oats and sawdust.
3. Hands compute sawdust.
4. Now heats, layer thickness - 1 cm.
5. Hands rave the grains, on top of a layer of sawdust (thickness no more than 1.5 cm).
6. Running the sawdust with your hands to distribute the chips evenly.
7. We prepare water, it must be not hot, but not warm, the optimal temperature is +38 ^oC. If water poured a lot, you need to merge too much.
8. Failure up the top layer and walk around the edges of the container.

Watering oats you need every day, but not too abundantly to prevent the appearance of mold. After a day, the first sprouts will appear, and after 2-3 days - green shoots. You can treat animals with useful herbs.