Radish: varieties, cultivation and small secrets of a great radish

When during the vegetation there is an arrow, slow growth and small roots - this is a radish, the varieties of which are picked up incorrectly. Properly selected seeds do not have time to bloom before harvest, giving juicy and large roots. Biologists managed to find a way to grow beets with the "off" gene responsible for flowering, perhaps soon and radishes, we will pull out of the bed the size of a large beetroot. While you need to remember some rules for obtaining an early harvest of radish.

Factors contributing to the blossom radish - a high temperature of air and soil, as well as a prolonged exposure to light. The longer the light day, the faster the radish bloom and the longer the harvest will wait. If it is very early to sow the radish, the varieties of which do not matter in this case, it does not rise for a long time in cold weather, and then blossoms quite abundantly. Thick planting also contributes to the fact that the shoots will blossom, and when flowering all the forces of the plant go to the ovary, not giving large root crops.

Radish grows well on loose, well-moistened soils, fertile and neutral or slightly acidic. To sow radishes is necessary early in the spring, as soon as the earth dries well. In Siberia, we will have to wait for the end of recurrent frosts, and then plant the seeds. Radish well rises and yields for the third-fourth week after planting. With the efforts of the breeders, radish was obtained, the varieties of which became more resistant to daylight and can bloom in the event of a disturbance in agricultural technology and too thick planting.

We need large and fresh seeds that are planted shallowly and evenly. If the radish after the first shoots appear, not to lose, then the harvest does not have to wait. The plants tolerate cold weather well enough, but the heat can not be tolerated completely, in this case, the root crops will be bitter and flabby. In order for the culture to grow well, a light day of 10-12 hours is enough. Shadow does not like any plant in the garden, including radish. Grades, do not touch, none of them will grow well in the shade, everyone will give the tops, not the root.

Fresh manure is also not laid in the garden, on it the plant "fats", also giving an abundant tops. On beds with a radish often appears such a pest as a cruciferous flea, sometimes it is capable of ruining the entire crop. To scare off the pest will help fly ash and tobacco dust. Ashes can be obtained by burning plant waste on the site, and tobacco for gardeners is sold in stores.

So, we summarize all the rules of early and full-fledged harvest:

• We take good seeds. We put them in saline solution, and those that float up are discarded.
• Plant early, when the light day is short enough (another radish is planted in August, when the day goes to waste).
• It is necessary to thin the shoots, so that each rootlet has a place for growth.
• Every day we water the plant twice: morning and evening. The bed must always be moist! This is an indispensable condition if you want an early harvest.
• We also loaf on a daily basis, making sure that the roots do not "get out" of the ground, but are closed, so they form and develop faster.
• For preventive maintenance we pollinate a bed an ash or tobacco. Well, if the predecessors of radish - tomatoes, cucumbers or peppers.

If these conditions are met, you will get a wonderful harvest of radish.

Early radish varieties: 18 days - very early, very large - Duro, for 24 days Ilka ripens, high yield gives Corsair. Of the early ones, too, are Soffit and Rhodes, Pink-red, Mokhovskaya, Early Red, Solo F1. Later varieties - Zenith, Rampouche (only in the open ground), Dungan. In the suburbs are in deserved demand among gardeners such varieties as Gara, Cherry Belle, Zlata, Zhara and French breakfast.

The best radish varieties are, of course, 18 days and the Heat (early), the Red giant (ripens later). The varieties are very productive, they hardly bloom, they yield high yields.