Tip 1: How to Grow Radish
Tip 1: How to Grow Radish
Radish is the first root crop that ripens after winter. Therefore, it is especially pleasant to taste. To grow radish and get a good harvest, you need to know certain secrets of agricultural technology.
Instructions
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When choosing the seeds of radish for planting, pay attention to the variety, maturity. Early varieties are very popular, they can be grown in 20-30 days.
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The soil under the radish planting should not be fertilizedrichly organic, especially fresh. Also, the root crop does not respect the places where radish and cabbage were grown before. To obtain the right soil, use a good humus. It is possible to bury the siderat in the autumn. Then in the spring it is enough to loosen the soil and make grooves. Sunflower, marigolds, beans, etc. are suitable as a siderata.
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Sowing should be done early. A short light day, cool weather for a radish, a favorable environment. Seed beds are not thickly, after emergence, they need to be weeded out. Between plants leave 4-5 centimeters of free space. Watering is moderate, but frequent.
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Until the plants acquire 2-3this leaflet, prophylaxis against the flea is desirable. For this purpose, you can sprinkle a bed of wood ash. Or use a solution of acetic essence, in 10 liters of water stir 2 tablespoons of vinegar. Watering with a ready solution is enough to spend one or two times a week. To create favorable conditions, after planting, the bed is covered with a film. At the moment when the shoots rise, the film is best not to use, so as not to create unnecessary heat for plants.
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By observing such simple rules of growing this valuable root, you can provide your family with radish during the whole season.
Tip 2: How to Grow Radish in Containers in the Garden
Radish can be grown not only on beds, butand in containers, thus achieving the extension of the harvesting time and saving space in the garden for other vegetables. Put the first radish on the bed, as soon as the earth warms up to + 5oC. But the next sowing in 2-3 weeks can be made into containers.
You will need
- Two containers or pots with a depth of 15-22 cm with drainage holes, garden soil, radish seeds of early ripening varieties
Instructions
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In the first container to the bottom, fill in heavy stones and earth. Choose the place solar.
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We work with the palm of your hand. The palm of the hand is grooved at a palm distance from each other.
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On the palm, pour a small amount of seeds and carefully slide the seeds into the grooves with your finger.
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We close the furrows with the help of the palm of the hand and tamp it a bit.
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Add warm water.
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After two weeks, do the same with the second container.
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In summer, when the day is long, close the container withradish with a dark cloth after 18 hours and open early in the morning. The light day for the radish is 12 hours. If the radish is sown too often, seed the shoots. The distance between the shoots is equal to the width of the palm ridge.
Tip 3: Garden on the window: we grow radish
Radish - a delicious and healthy vegetable that is rich ina number of vitamins. Use radish for cooking salads, decorating dishes or just for eating in pure form. If you do not have an infield, you can grow radish on the windowsill - there's nothing complicated about this!
Tip 4: Cultivating quality radish
It is not always possible to grow a good qualityradish. Often, sowing seeds of good varieties, grow solid root crops with coarse fibers or empty, with a dryish cavity in the middle. Sometimes on the garden there is a lot of radish, which went to the arrow. To avoid such troubles, it is necessary to observe some agrotechnical rules.
Instructions
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Sowing radishes is necessary in the earliest possible time, andbeds for him to cook, as soon as the soil allows. To plant radish is better in 3-4 terms with intervals of 7-10 days. Before sowing the seeds soak in warm water for 8-10 hours. The sowing is carried out in the grooves shed by hot water with a distance between them of 12-15 cm.
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Do not bring fresh manure that causes violentgrowth of the tops to the detriment of the development of root crops. Fertilize the beds with humus or compost and peat (2-3 kg per 1 cubic meter). To make a full mineral fertilizer 1 st.lozhke per 1 meter cube.
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When sprouting emerges, the soil between the bedssprinkle with a mixture of wood ash with mustard powder or red and black pepper to destroy the cruciferous flea. Shoots are watered with a watering can with a small strainer, the plants lightly hills.
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In 22-26 days the roots of radish will grow andwill be ready for harvesting. The roots should be cleaned in one or two doses, as they quickly lose quality. They are excavated, the tops removed, packaged in plastic bags and stored in a refrigerator at a temperature of 2-5 degrees.
