Crops of garden radish in the early spring - one of the first. Thanks to precocity, unpretentiousness, he grows up for 20... 30 days. What it is necessary to pay attention to receive good valuable root crops?
For crops in the early spring most often use early ripening varieties. The garden radish should be sowed as soon as possible, it holodostoyek and vlagolyubiv.
Under landing allocate nutritious, humic friable soils. If the soil clay and heavy, then landings of garden radish need to be loosened accurately, giving access of air to roots.
For crops select large seeds, small seeds will give small root crops. Seeds of garden radish ascend at the air temperature of 12 wasps in 10 days, at warmer weather (t of 20...22 wasps) the shoots appear week later. From 3 to 5 g of seeds are spent for 1 sq.m.
Crops and leaving
Seeds display in grooves of 1...2 cm in depth. Between seeds maintain distance in 2...3 cm. Between ranks leave not less than 10 cm. You should not thicken crops. From close cultivation the garden radish can strelkovatsya, not give root crops or grow up small and ugly.
It is important not to dry the earth under landings of garden radish as root crops will be bitter, extremely sharp and rough, and at abundant untimely gulfs can crack.
If shoots of garden radish are for some reason extended, then they should be hilled the earth.
The most important problem at cultivation is the cruciferous flea beetle, cabbage fly. Saves the shelter of landings from such ""big-bellied trifle"" nonwoven fabric. It is possible to apply folk remedies: dusting by ashes, tobacco dust, ground pepper.
Not to allocate separate bed, the garden radish is grown up on sites where it is going to plant tomatoes, cucumbers. The crop of garden radish will be reaped before planting of this seedling.
Harvesting
Harvesting of spring garden radish is collected in stages, since sample of the root crops which have had the size about 2 cm diameter. Delay with harvesting results in flabbiness of root crops, strelkovaniye of plants. So, the garden radish of belookrashenny grades keeps the commodity qualities, unlike the krasnookrashenny fellows longer.