Beet is quite unpretentious plant. Best of all grows on the friable soils rich with organic chemistry. Treats to family of goosefoot family. Beet - cold-resistant culture, but rather exacting to waterings.
It is required to you
- Beet seeds, soil, water, fertilizers.
Instruction
1. About soaking of seeds. Beet in the course of maturing is rather sensitive to lack of copper, pine forest, molybdenum. Because of it at it the heart usually rots. Therefore before landing wet beet seeds in solution of these microelements for 18-20 hours. They will also be appropriate in the form of not root fertilizing. In the absence of microelements surely wet seeds in plain water.
2. Bed for beet. Beet can be planted on bed where before cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes grew. If for some reason it is impossible, then at the beginning of May prepare new bed for crops of seeds. Carefully you prorykhlit the earth and remove all weeds. Before landing to the soil surely introduce organic fertilizers: humus, compost. Such expense: 20 kg on one square meter. It is quite good to introduce at once and mineral fertilizers. Beet needs nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. At their shortcoming the productivity much decreases. It is also possible to fertilize bed ashes at the rate of the 3rd glass on one square meter. Just mix it with organic chemistry: compost and humus. So the fertile bed for landing of beet is ready.
3. Now boarding. Seeds of beet can be planted to the damp soil during the period from May 1 to May 14. Each sunflower seed is soplody many seeds. Therefore carry out landing of seeds ranks not too closely to each other: the distance between seeds can reach 10 cm. Depth of landing of seeds: 2-3 cm. At subwinter crops of seeds landing depth: 3-4 cm. The distance between ranks of beet has to be not less than 40 cm. And even despite this most likely shoots will need thinning even not once. Carry out the first thinning when on beet 2-3 leaflets appear. Use the root crops which are pulled out at later thinning in food. Seeds of beet sprout at low temperature: +4 - +5 °C, and shoots transfer frosts to -2 °C. However the best temperature for cultivation of beet: from +16 to +24 °C. Do not forget to weed beet at emergence of weeds.
4. Fertilizers. Fertilizing of beet needs to be made twice during the season. Mineral fertilizers carry out the first fertilizing after the first thinning. Use nitrogen fertilizers (urea). Following calculation: 10 grams of urea on one square meter. Consider that the surplus of nitrogen fertilizers promotes accumulation of nitrates in vegetable. Therefore divide norm of nitrogen and bring it in stages, but not all quantity for once. The second fertilizing is carried out at close high tops of vegetable. For the further growth and development introduce potassium-phosphorus fertilizers in such ratio: 8 g of superphosphate and 10 g of chloride of potassium on 1 m². At poor development of beet water it with lime milk. Part 200 grams of lime in 10 liters of water and add 80 grams of chloride potassium.