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Week Two Teaching Outline: 

Soils, Nutrition, Planting, Mulching, and Composting 

Instructor: David Marshall

Quick Links:  Outline in Spanish     Outlines in English: Master of Gardens [Commercial Class]  Gardeners of Costa Rica [Community  Audience]  Equipment & Supplies   David's Handouts    References

Itinerario de Semana Dos

Suelos y Nutricion de las Plantas

     ·        Hablamos de las plantas un rato

 ·        Descanso

     ·        Tiempo en el jardín; hablar con su grupo de ideas para su jardín. (La próxima semana van a aprender mas de diseño.)  Elegir cual planta, de esas plantas que tenemos hoy, que su grupo quiere plantar esta tarde. Soil profile - EARTH LaFLor

Almuerzo

    ·        Mas de suelos:  mulch; enmiendas del suelo; compost; riego, etc.  

·        Fertilizantes spreading mulch

·        Actividades afuera en el jardín: Como plantar una planta bien; aplicación de fertilizantes

 

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 Master of Gardens / Maestro del Jardin [Commercial Audience]      

 Gardeners of Costa Rica Jardineros de Costa Rica   [Community Audience]  

(Same basic outlines for both classes)

1  Why Soils Are Important to Plants

2  Different Soil Types and Effect on Plant Growth

3  Soil Amendments

4  Making Compost

5  MulchesMulch applied around new plant

6  Planting a PlantPalm and planting hole

Discussion on Ornamentals to be Planted today

Outdoor Exercise in the Garden

LunchFertilizer bag

7  Plant Nutrition

8  Soil-Testing

9  Fertilizing

Outdoor Exercise in the Garden/Lawn

Weighing Fertilizer Setting Fertilizer spreader applying fertilizer to test plot
David Marshall demonstrates how to weigh fertilizer, make settings on the spreader, and then apply a known weight of nutrients to a test plot - the steps in calibrating a Fertilizer spreader.  Photos: Linda Seals, UF/IFAS

Equipment and Supplies needed  

  • At least 6-8 pointed shovels for planting

  • Various types of soil amendments

  • Various materials to use in a compost pile (leaves, vegetable and fruit waste, etc.)

  • Shrubs and trees, gallon sizes and 3 gallon sizes

  • Bedding plants

  • Micro-irrigation components for a simple system that will attach to a spigot

  • Buckets

  • Wheelbarrow

  • Pitchforks

  • Mulch material

  • Bags of common fertilizers

  • Scales for weighing fertilizer in a bucket

  • Two cyclone (rotary) lawn spreaders

  • Two hand-held spreaders for applying fertilizer to beds

  • Soil Test Sample materials from EARTH, information and instruction sheets

  • Steel rakes

  • Water hose (long enough to reach from spigot to garden area being planted) and breaker for end

 David's Handouts in Spanish /   in Adobe pdf

Approvechemos Nuestra Basura: Produzczmxo Abono Natural!  Composting (23 pp. ) 

La compactación del suelo en las obras afecta a las raíces   Soil Compaction and Roots (3 pp.)

Plantación de Árboles Nuevos   Planting New Trees (3 pp.)

Indices de Fertilizantes  Calculating Fertilizers (1 pp.)

Técnicas Apropiadas para Aplicar el Mulch   Proper Mulching Techniques  (3 pp.)

Principios para el manejo de nutrientes en la produccion de plantas Principles of Plant Nutrition  for Vegetables (3 pp.)

Viven del Aire  Living in Air (1 pp.)

 

Other references:

ACIDEZ DEL SUELO [soil acidity] http://www.mag.go.cr/bibioteca_virtual_ciencia/acidez_suelo.pdf 

                    ANALISIS DE SUELOS [soil analysis] http://www.mag.go.cr/bibioteca_virtual_ciencia/av0713_analis_suelo.pdf 

IMPORTANCIA DEL ANALISIS QUIMICOS DEL SUELO PARA MEJORAR LA PRODUCCION AGRICOLA  [The importance of chemical soil analysis for agricultural production] http://www.mag.go.cr/bibioteca_virtual_ciencia/tec_analisisquimico.pdf 

 

 

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