Oat seeds

Oat or common oat / Avena sativa - an annual plant of the grass family. Green manure, fodder and food crops. Valued for its highest growth vigor and the best ability (along with buckwheat) to feed and improve acidic bog soils and drained peat bogs. The best use is as a maintenance crop, mixed with climbing legume green manure (vetch, peas).

Green manure. After decomposition in the soil, oat biomass becomes an easily digestible fertilizer, and the soil is replenished with organic matter and humus. The fertilizer value is moderate, therefore, as a rule, it is used in a mixture with other green manures. Absorbs poorly soluble potassium compounds that are inaccessible to other plants and converts them into an easily accessible form.

Soil-forming and soil-protective qualities. It loosens, drains, structures the soil well, makes it lighter, and increases air and moisture capacity. The development of swamp soils and drained peat bogs begins with the sowing of oats. Protects the earth from water and wind erosion.

Phytosanitary qualities. Heals the soil, cleanses it of root rot. Improves the living conditions of worms and soil microorganisms, and serves as food for them during decomposition. This leads to a reduction in plant disease and increased yields. Effectively suppresses the development of weeds due to active regrowth and tillering, especially on peat bogs, where tillering is much better.

There are 3 sowing methods:

• cross. The distance between rows is 15 cm;
• solid private. The distance between rows is 15 cm;
• narrow row. Row spacing – 7-8 cm.

Growing oats using cross and narrow row sowing increases the seeding rate by 10-15%.

Cutting. In the heading phase, maximum in the milky ripeness phase of the seed, but no later than 3 weeks before sowing winter crops, if they are sown after oats. Trim with a Fokin flat cutter or cultivator, after watering with a solution of EM preparations. Treatment with an EM preparation accelerates fermentation processes and creates favorable microbiological conditions, which lead to the enrichment of the soil with nutrients and microelements.