Cultivation of beet in kitchen garden gives the chance to receive quality and eco-friendly product. For this purpose it is not obligatory to resort to the help of chemicals and complex fertilizers at all. Several simple, but useful tips will help gardeners with question of crops of beet.
This useful vegetable is used in various salads, dishes and even drinks. Beet is not choosy in cultivation, it is simple to receive good harvest even at himself on the site, it is necessary to follow agrotechnical rules only.
We choose grade
Before being bought by seeds, it is necessary to define type of grade which you would like to see at yourself on beds. The grade depends on the cultivation purposes. If desired to receive early harvest in the spring, stop the choice on Larka, but this look is not suitable for long storage at all.
Most of the gardeners loving beet plant beds with different grades, thereby ensuring consumption of fresh vegetable for all year. The ideal grade does not exist, each look has the merits and demerits therefore the answer to question "what beet to sow?" there will be your personal preferences.
We prepare the soil
Half of success of harvest depends on the correct preparation of the soil. Its quality affects taste, the size and quantity of the sprouted seeds. Vegetable does not love clay soil or the friable and sandy earth. Under similar conditions the plant equally badly sprouts.
Clay presses on root crop because of what seeds are tied hardly, grow very slowly, as a result fruits turn out small and defective. At crops to the sandy soil, moisture does not keep, and beet receives the minimum quantity of nutrients.
For sound harvest the chernozem with the maintenance of humus is necessary. The soil has to be not too dense, but that well passed water, without detaining her.
Start crops in the spring, and before it allow the soil to have a rest, disturb the earth it is impossible, it can lead to deep leaving of seeds which can not ascend subsequently. Ideally, the site is dug over towards the winter, cleaning from stones and the remains. Till spring the soil sinks, and before crops it is only leveled.
How to water
Uniform and timely watering is important for root crops. Here irrigation in process of drying will not work. If initially to water vegetable it is abundant, and then to leave surface before full drying and again to be accepted to irrigation, fruits will grow dry and with cracks. The cracked root crops – the favorable environment for reproduction of infections and wreckers, such vegetables have small storage life and quickly spoil.
Therefore watering has to happen evenly and is rather abundant. Find golden mean which will allow not to stand to water and not to overdry surface. It will allow to develop to plant, to create strong tops of vegetable and to yield juicy and smooth fruits.
The best time for landing of beet the spring is considered. Many find approach to the soil and know for sure, to look after how exactly beet beds. If the root crop is seeded to the good soil, receives enough light and moisture, then cultivation of beet will not bring big trouble. And eco-friendly cultivation of own kitchen garden – guarantee of health of all family.