It is easy and favorable to grow up garden radish – at the correct leaving from the same bed during the season it is possible to reap three crops. This root crop loves fertile damp soil, otherwise it is possible and not to wait for harvest. It is the best of all to sow garden radish in the early spring or in the early fall, the first greens will sprout in five days after crops, and it is possible to collect tasty fruits in four weeks.
Instruction
1. Before sowing garden radish, select the best – fresh and large seeds. It is easy to eliminate bad seedling – for this purpose lower seeds in salt solution – those that will emerge, it is possible to throw out.
2. That the harvest was successful wonderfully well, it is not necessary to be lazy, seeds have to lay down to the earth evenly, on small depth. It is better not to thicken crops, the distance between seeds has to be not less than 2-4 cm, and the level of seal is no more than 1 cm.
3. The garden radish is accustomed to cold, and here does not love hot and dry weather therefore try to water often crops, otherwise fruits will gain unpleasant bitterness and will crack.
4. Garden radish to garden radish discord therefore for crops choose the best grades, such as "Dawn", Alba, "Heat", Rubin, Zenit, "Red giant", "Early red", Virovsky, "Red with white tip", "Safit", "The French breakfast", "Rose-red with white tip".
5. To receive rich harvest, it is necessary to observe strictly sowing time and to consider features of quite choosy plant. For the correct development and growth the garden radish has enough 12 hours of daylight hours if the sun shines longer, the plant quickly gives peduncles, and in short winter days the root crops are formed badly. Therefore it is better to sow garden radish in July and August or April – May. At this particular time year the necessary balance of all components of rich harvest is reached.
6. What needs to be known, choosing the site for crops? Nice to the taste and gentle root crops are formed on solar sites, and in shadow of plant give dense tops of vegetable. The considerable value has fertility of the soil – the garden radish loves friable, loamy or sandy lands, on sour, infertile sites the root crops are formed badly. It is better to sow garden radish after tomatoes, pepper and cucumbers.
7. The garden radish has enemies - it is cabbage fly and cruciferous fleas. It is possible to apply very effective folk remedy to pest control – infusion of tobacco dust. Unlike chemical medicines, this means is absolutely harmless. For the period of activity of cabbage fly it is better to cover harvest carefully.