The beautiful and crunchy roots of this vegetable are especially pleasant after winter. But radish loves to play around.
And its cultivation requires certain knowledge. Here's a quick summary first.

1. You need to sow radishes early. She loves short daylight hours.

2. You need to sow as rarely as possible. And don’t hesitate to thin out when the shoots appear. You need to water often and a lot. So that the soil gets wet by 5-7 cm.

3. From flea beetles, seedlings can be sprinkled with ash. You can also treat it with vinegar water. To do this, you need to dilute 2 tablespoons of essence in 10 liters of water and water the bed well, wetting the seedlings. Such watering can be done every 2-3 days until the plants produce 2-3 true leaves.

And now more details.

When preparing the soil for radishes, you must remember that this vegetable does not tolerate fresh organic fertilizers. Radishes cannot be grown after radishes and cabbage. If in the fall you bury any green manure in the soil, and there may be many plants, then in the spring you will only have to loosen the soil and make furrows. In a 50 cm bed I make only 2 furrows. You can wet the radish seeds or sow them dry. But the grooves need to be well watered.

After the radish shoots appear, the film must be removed. Otherwise it will be like my neighbor’s last spring. At first it was warm. They all sowed together and didn’t cover it with film, but I still covered it, although not tightly, so that the seedlings wouldn’t mate. But the film helped retain moisture. The radishes sprouted, it became cold, and some nights there was frost. If you sit in the country all the time, you can cover the seedlings at night. But we usually don’t go there for more than 2-3 days. I removed the film, but covered it with double spunbond. When we arrived again, the neighbor expressed regret that my radish was apparently frozen. I was sure that everything was fine. He shook his head and pointed to his, covered with film. The radish tops were beautiful and green. And mine was still barely visible above the ground. I didn't object.

But after 3 weeks I took a large bunch of radishes to my neighbor, and he said that once again they were left without radishes, but again I have them so big and beautiful. I explained that it was impossible to cover the radishes with film. And it was not necessary to feed with infusion of manure. All the plants “went to the tops,” as people say.

Draw a conclusion from this story: radishes do not like heat and fertilizing with nitrogen fertilizers.

In order to receive good harvest radishes, they need to be sown early. She doesn't like long daylight hours. It likes abundant watering and soil fertilized with organic matter, but one should not overdo it with fertilizers, therefore poorer soil is better than overfed soil. But, if you have good humus, pour it into the garden bed, you won’t regret it. The radishes will thank you.

Radishes must be thinned mercilessly if they sprout thickly. Pull out the grown root vegetables and eat them. And don’t wait until the root vegetables harden and all sorts of insects will settle in them. Learn to eat vegetables at the peak of their ripeness.

When you sow, look at the bag. As a rule, it says the number of days that vegetables need to reach full maturity. This will not always coincide exactly, since the weather plays a big role. But it can be roughly calculated. And it's better to pull out spinach, radishes, and lettuce sooner rather than later.

I repeat once again that radish seedlings need to be thinned out. Don't be greedy, break through and throw away everything unnecessary. Leave 4cm between plants.

Pay attention to the following lines. Quote from the US Garden Journal, 1908. “The kindest gardener is the one who thins out seedlings of vegetables and flowers in the most ruthless manner.”

Radishes need to be watered frequently. Usually, when I arrive at the dacha, I immediately water the radishes. I do it again in the evening. I water it the next day, and water it before leaving.

Give it a try. You will succeed. Even if you have familiar ridges or just square meter earth, do everything in this order. I'm sure the radishes will grow. And you will be proud to treat your family with it.

If you have any leftover radish seeds, don't hide them until next year. Under any tree in the garden, loosen the soil and scatter the remaining radish seeds. Rake the earth. It is possible that after a month you will begin to loosen trunk circle tree or weed. And you will find wonderful root vegetables there. There won't be many of them. In such cases I say: “It’s a small thing, but it’s nice.”

And further. In my opinion, it is very important to learn to treat all failures with humor and enjoy small victories.

Alexandra Sobolevskaya, website

A high-quality, abundant harvest is the main reward of any gardener. Even the easiest crops to grow, such as radishes, require compliance with a number of agricultural practices. Let's talk about how to water radishes so that the fruits have a good taste and juicy, crispy flesh.

To begin with, let’s note all the risks that improper watering of moisture-loving radishes entails:

  1. with insufficient, untimely and uneven watering, the quantity and quality of the harvest will sharply decrease, the fruits will develop voids and bitterness, the pulp will become hard;
  2. absence sufficient quantity moisture coupled with heat and drought threatens blooming. The root crop will not set and will go into the arrow; for the irreversible development of this effect, the radish only needs 3 hours without water;
  3. It’s also not a good idea to mindlessly flood the beds with radishes with a huge amount of water; if you water too much, the fruits will crack and lose their presentation.

Not the most pleasant consequences, right? To avoid all these troubles, let's highlight and study all the information on how to water radishes so that you can enjoy the resulting harvest of delicious, fortified radishes from your own garden, and not be upset about broken hopes and lost time.

Watering radishes from A to Z

The first (abundant) watering is carried out immediately after sowing, and it does not matter where the radishes are planted, in protected or open ground, whether the seeds were soaked or not. For the first watering, you need to prepare warm water (room temperature). On initial stage growth, before the appearance of a real leaf, the soil must be moistened to a depth of 10 cm. After, at the stage of fruit formation, the depth is increased to 15 cm.

Before purchasing seeds, carefully study the characteristics of the variety; in some of them, the main root goes to a depth of 30 cm, in which case it should be provided with moisture entirely.

How often to water radishes in the future is an interesting, rather individual, question. The culture is the earliest, sowing is carried out in the spring, as soon as the snow melts and the soil warms up slightly, and everyone’s climate is different, and nature often brings surprises. Therefore, it is better to focus on growing conditions and weather.

Watering radishes in open and protected ground

Let's start with open ground, watch the soil, it should always be sufficiently moist. In normal weather, you can water once every 2-4 days, during hot periods every day, and on especially hot days, morning and evening watering may be required. In cool weather, the amount of watering is reduced to 1 time every 3 or 5 days. The norm for water consumption in hot weather is 10 liters per 1 sq. m.

We figured out how to water radishes in open ground, everything is simple. The frequency of watering root crops in the greenhouse is also calculated. With the cassette growing method, radishes are watered using the flooding method. At the initial stage of development, the soil moisture level should be maintained at 70%. When setting fruit, the soil should be 65-75% moist before harvesting.

Another important point is that radishes are very moisture-loving, this applies to the soil, but the vegetable does not tolerate dampness well. If the greenhouse is not equipped with a high-quality ventilation system, be sure to ventilate the room yourself after each watering; excess air humidity often leads to the development of fungal and other diseases in the plant.

The last, abundant watering is carried out several hours before harvesting; this is done so that the radishes are preserved longer, are elastic and juicy. But this also has its drawbacks: radishes do not ripen at the same time, and excessive moisture can harm neighboring fruits, so try to collect the vegetable on watering days.

  1. all watering should be carried out only in the morning or evening;
  2. Under no circumstances should you water radishes with a directed stream under the root; use a watering can with a fine sieve or a sprinkler nozzle for a hose, making sure that the root crop is not exposed;
  3. try to avoid washing out the soil;
  4. It happens that the beds are left unattended; a small layer of mulch will help keep the soil moist for several days of your absence;
  5. watering can be combined with fertilizing and prevention from harmful insects; if necessary, combine ordinary water with infusions of herbs, ash, tobacco, etc. Acidified water (per 10 liters of water 1 tbsp. citric acid) helps get rid of cruciferous flea beetle;
  6. soil permeability is very important nuance In order for the roots to breathe fully, loosen the soil between the rows to a depth of 5 cm, it is advisable to carry out the procedure after each watering, loosening is especially important after rain, even the lightest.

The rules for watering radishes are simple, learning them is not at all difficult, and the plant will definitely thank you for the care you show with its main reward - a bountiful and high-quality harvest.

Radish (lat. Raphanus sativus)- an annual or biennial plant belonging to the Radish group of the Radish genus of the Brassica or Cruciferous family. The name of the vegetable radish comes from the Latin word radix, which means root. This is an early ripening garden crop, a leader among fast-growing vegetables, it is very popular in the spring, since at this time only radishes contain living vitamins, which are so necessary for the body after winter.

Planting and caring for radishes (in brief)

  • Landing: sowing seeds in the ground - before winter or in spring, from late March to mid-April.
  • Lighting: bright sunlight.
  • The soil: loose, light soil with a neutral or slightly alkaline reaction (5.5-7.0 pH).
  • Predecessors: undesirable - any cruciferous crops. Good ones are potatoes, cucumbers, legumes. After radishes, it is best to grow tomatoes on the site.
  • Watering: frequent and abundant: in normal spring with rains and thunderstorms - once a day, in the morning or after 17.00, but in abnormally hot and dry weather - both in the morning and in the evening. The soil on the site should be slightly moist at all times.
  • Feeding: when growing on poor soils, fertilizing is applied twice, when growing on rich soils - once. They use complex mineral fertilizers.
  • Reproduction: seed.
  • Pests: cruciferous flea beetles and mole crickets.
  • Diseases: bacteriosis, clubroot, blackleg.

Read more about growing radishes below.

Radish vegetable - description

The radish plant is grown in many countries. It is a root vegetable with a diameter of 2.5 cm, covered with a thin skin of red, pink or white-pink color with a pungent taste due to the mustard oil contained in its pulp. The radish vegetable is a long-day plant; for normal development it needs a 13-hour daylight hours. But its growing season is short, so you can grow the radish root crop throughout the season, planting it literally every week.

Planting radishes in open ground

When to plant radishes in the ground

Radish seeds germinate at a temperature of 1-2 ºC; for normal development, the plant requires a temperature of 15-18 ºC, but no more, since it is too warm air with a lack of lighting (and at this time of year the days are still short) it only leads to the growth of tops, while the root crop does not grow and becomes coarser. As soon as the soil thaws and warms up, radishes are planted in the ground. This usually occurs in mid-April, although in warm areas early varieties of radishes are sown as early as the end of March.

Soil for radishes

Growing radishes from seeds begins with preparing the soil. The area where you sow radishes should be sunny for at least the first half of the day and protected from the wind. The optimal soil for radishes is loose, light soil of a neutral or slightly acidic reaction, the pH value of which is in the range of 5.5-7.0 units. Too acidic soils must be limed before planting radishes.

It is good to sow radishes in an area intended later for growing tomatoes: you can sow radishes on it every week until the twentieth of May, collect a good harvest of root crops and at the same time prepare the soil in an area for growing tomatoes. Heavy and cold soils or poor sandy loam soils, if you want to grow radishes in them, will have to be dug up with humus at the rate of 2-3 kg per m². The soil under radishes is not fertilized with fresh manure.

You can plant radishes in an area where potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, and beans were previously grown, but in an area where turnips, radishes, turnips, daikon, watercress, cabbage and horseradish grew, you cannot grow a good harvest of radishes. It is advisable to change the place for radishes every year so that each time it has predecessors from a different family.

The site is prepared for spring sowing in the fall: the soil is dug up to the depth of a spade with compost or humus - then in the spring, immediately before sowing, the depth of digging with the simultaneous application of phosphorus-potassium fertilizers can be no more than 20 cm.

How to plant radishes in open ground

Radish seeds are sown densely in grooves previously spilled with water to a depth of 2 cm, keeping a distance between rows of 15-20 cm. The grooves are covered with loose soil, then the surface is compacted, but not watered, but the area is covered with a layer of peat or humus 2 cm thick. At night, after five o'clock in the evening and until the morning, the bed is covered with film until the seeds germinate. The time of emergence of seedlings depends on the weather. In good, dry and sunny weather, seeds can germinate within 3-4 days.

During the development phase of the first leaf seedlings, they are thinned out, leaving a distance of 3-5 cm between the specimens. If you are a patient person, sow the seeds immediately at the specified distance so that you do not have to break through the seedlings later, because this procedure can damage the roots of the main seedlings, and they will develop worse, and as a result, they may shoot. At proper care Growing radishes in open ground until harvest lasts 20-30 days.

Planting radishes before winter

We told you about the timing of spring sowing, but winter radishes, biennials, are planted at the end of autumn. Radishes are planted in the fall after the start of frost - in mid or late November. For winter sowing Not all varieties of radishes are suitable, but varieties such as Yubileiny, Spartak, Mercado, Mayak, Carmen are able to germinate even at low temperatures.

Preparing the site for sowing is carried out at the end of summer: the soil is dug up and fertilized, adding half a bucket of humus or rotted compost per 1 m², 1 tablespoon of double superphosphate and potassium sulfate. After applying fertilizer, cover the bed with film, pressing down its edges with stones or bricks so that the cover does not blow away with the wind.

The procedure for autumn sowing differs from the spring procedure in that in the fall the seeds are thrown into dry soil, and after planting the seeds, the bed is mandatory mulch with dry soil or peat, compact the surface and cover the area with snow if it has already fallen.

What is the advantage of winter sowing? The fact is that next year you will receive the harvest of radishes sown in the fall two weeks earlier than the harvest of radishes sown next spring.

Radish care

How to grow radishes

Caring for radishes in open ground involves watering, weeding and loosening the rows. If you put a layer of mulch on the bed after sowing, maintenance will not be tiresome, but try to complete all maintenance procedures on time.

Watering radishes

Radish is a moisture-loving culture, optimal humidity The soil level for the normal development of its root crops should be about 80%, so you will have to water the area often, especially at first, otherwise the radishes will be bitter. If there is insufficient watering, the plant shoots and the roots do not develop. If watering is too frequent or abundant, the roots will crack.

How to water radishes to achieve a good and high-quality harvest? If the spring is normal, with rains and thunderstorms, water the radishes every day in the morning or after 17.00, but if the spring turns out to be dry, then the soil on the site will have to be moistened daily both in the morning and in the evening. It is especially necessary to strictly monitor the condition of the soil after the first true leaf appears on the seedlings. Only on the condition that the soil in the beds with radishes is always slightly wet, you can grow juicy, tasty root vegetables.

Radish feeding

On poor soils, radishes need to be fed twice during the growing season; for radishes growing on rich soils, one feeding is enough. Try not to overdo it with the nitrogen component, because in this case everything vitality the radishes will spend on growing tops, and the roots will be elongated and oversaturated with nitrates.

How to fertilize radishes, what fertilizers can be applied to the soil without the risk of saturating root vegetables with substances hazardous to human health? Here is a recipe for a balanced mixture of fertilizers that will help radishes form a healthy and juicy root crop: compost and humus, in the amount required for your soil, 10 g of potassium fertilizer and superphosphate, 10-15 g of saltpeter, one and a half liters of ash. It is enough to add only mineral fertilizers to fertile soil.

Radish pests and diseases

The main enemies of radishes are the cruciferous flea beetle and the mole cricket; other garden pests (aphids, wireworms, caterpillars) do not have time to greatly harm the radish due to its rapid growth. The cruciferous flea beetle is dangerous for radishes precisely early stage its development, since it is capable of destroying barely hatched defenseless seedlings throughout the entire area in a few days. When the seedlings get stronger, they are no longer afraid of the flea.

How to treat radishes so that the cruciferous flea beetle does not bother them? To scare away insects from young green leaves, the tops are sprayed with a solution of wood ash: 2 cups of fresh ash and 50 g of grated laundry soap dissolve in 10 liters of water. You can simply scatter the ash around the area. It must be said that both of these methods are ineffective, and the most reliable protection against flea beetles - construction of a shelter: metal arched supports are installed along the length of the entire bed, onto which spunbond is thrown. Under this shelter, the radishes breathe normally, the tops do not burn under the scorching rays of the sun, and most importantly, the harmful insect cruciferous flea, which destroys the radish crops, does not penetrate under the spunbond. After the tops grow, the shelter can be removed.

Medvedka more often harms early varieties radish in the greenhouse, where in the spring it crawls to warm itself. If you grow radishes in open ground, then this terrible enemy is unlikely to have time to cause much damage to your crop. And it is very difficult to fight a mole cricket.

What are the diseases of radishes? Among the diseases that are dangerous for radishes are bacteriosis, manifested by premature yellowing of leaves, mucus and rotting of root crops, clubroot, also determined primarily by yellow leaves, as well as by growths and swellings on root crops, and black leg, which affects plants at the seedling stage, which is why their leaves turn yellow and curl and their stems turn black at the base.

To avoid these problems, choose disease-resistant varieties for cultivation, follow agricultural practices, and most importantly, remove diseased plants from the site in a timely manner. Clubroot can be combated by treating the soil around the plants with lime milk (2 cups of fluff lime per 10 liters of water), consumption - 1 liter of milk per plant. Specimens affected by blackleg are treated 2-3 times at weekly intervals with an infusion of onion peels (pour 20 g of peels into a liter of water and leave for 24 hours).

Radish processing

Readers often ask questions about how to treat radishes against pests or how to treat radishes against diseases. It is not advisable to use pesticides in the fight against diseases and pests of quickly ripening root vegetables if you are concerned about your health and the health of those who will eat these radishes, so the best protection is to follow all the rules of cultivation and care.

If the recommendations we described did not give results, and it is necessary to take emergency radical measures, then you will have to treat the radishes for blackleg with a solution copper sulfate(1 tablespoon of the drug, 50 g of laundry soap shavings per 10 liters of water), and treat bacteriosis by treating plants with a one percent solution of Bordeaux mixture.

But we repeat: whatever you treat the radishes with, you will then eat.

Harvesting and storing radishes

Radishes do not ripen at the same time, so when asked when to dig up radishes, we answer: they need to be removed selectively, as they ripen. It is better to harvest radishes in the morning, watering the beds abundantly the night before. Having pulled out the root crops, shake off the remaining soil from them, cut the tops not just under the root crop, but at a distance of 2-3 cm from it, and do not cut off the roots at all. How long and how to store radishes?

From long-term storage even in the most better conditions radishes become bitter and flabby, so give up plans to harvest this root vegetable, such as carrots or beets, especially since you can grow fresh juicy radishes at any time - not in the garden, but in the greenhouse. The radish harvest harvested in the described manner is stored in plastic bags in the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator for about a week.

Types and varieties of radishes

Radish varieties for open ground are divided according to ripening periods into super-early ripening, early ripening, mid-ripening and late ripening.

Ultra-early or early ripening varieties of radish

ripen in 18-20 days. The most famous of them:

  • 18 days– the roots of this variety reach maturity precisely during this period; they have juicy, tender pulp, a cylindrical shape, and a deep pink color;
  • Firstborn– an ultra-early high-yielding hybrid, ripening in 16-18 days. Large, round, dark red root vegetables of this variety are resistant to bolting and cracking, and their flesh is sweet and juicy.

Early maturing varieties of radish

ripen in 20-30 days from the moment of emergence, the best of them include:

  • Ilka– the yield of this variety is quite high, the root crops are scarlet in color, round, weighing from 15 to 25 g, dense, juicy, the flesh is white and white-pink, the taste is medium-sharp, without bitterness. The variety is resistant to low temperatures, bolting, formation of porosity or woody pulp;
  • French Breakfast- also a popular productive variety with bolt-resistant long cylindrical dark red fruits weighing up to 45 g with a rounded white tip. The pulp is juicy, without bitterness. Disadvantage: shoots in extreme heat;
  • Sachs– this variety ripens in 23-27 days, the shape of the root crop is round, the color is bright red, the flesh is white, juicy, with a slightly pungent taste. The average weight of the root crop is 22 g. The variety is resistant to flowering and retains freshness for a long time;
  • White Fang– conical root vegetables of this variety, original for radishes white ripen in 33-40 days, reaching a length of 12 cm and gaining weight up to 60 g. The pulp is juicy, the taste is slightly spicy;
  • Heat– a high-yielding variety that ripens in three weeks. The root vegetables are small, dark red, round, weighing up to 25 g. The pulp is white or white-pink, the taste is slightly pungent. The variety, despite its name, does not like heat, so when grown in hot weather it should be covered with a canopy.

Mid-season radish

ripens in 30-35 days. The best varieties this group are:

  • Faith– a stem-resistant, productive variety with bright red root crops of almost the same size, resistant to cracking;
  • Helios– a variety with yellow round root vegetables with juicy pulp of pleasant taste;
  • Quantum– a productive variety that ripens in 30 days with pinkish-crimson root crops of delicate taste. When stored, retains elasticity for a long time;
  • Zlata– ripens within a maximum of 35 days from the moment of germination. A yellow round root vegetable with dense, tender and juicy pulp reaches a weight of 18 g;
  • Duro– one of the most popular and productive varieties with very large (up to 10 cm in diameter), round red root crops weighing up to 40 g, which requires more spacious planting in rows: the distance between specimens should be at least 10 cm. The variety is resistant to stemming, woodiness and cracking of fruits, is well stored.

For late-ripening radish varieties

which require 36-45 days to ripen include:

  • Red giant– a productive variety with large cylindrical bright red fruits up to 14 cm long with juicy white-pink pulp and a mildly pungent taste. Resistant to cruciferous flea beetle and mole cricket, it is perfectly stored: in a container with sand it can be kept fresh for up to 4 months;
  • Ice icicle- a variety almost identical to the Red Giant, but only with white root vegetables;
  • Champion– this high-yielding variety ripens in 40 days. Its root vegetables are crimson-red, large, elongated and round, weighing up to 20 g, the pulp is juicy, tender, but dense, pinkish-white in color, the taste is good. Root vegetables do not form voids and do not become flabby and soft for a long time;
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I planted radish seeds - shoots appeared, very close to each other. Do I need to thin out somehow? And one more thing - and then how to act so that the radish goes “to the root” rather than to the tops? Thank you:)

1. It is necessary to thin out.
2. The arrow goes either away from high temperature(radish is a cold-loving crop) or from the characteristics of the variety (again, from the insufficient tolerance of the variety to high temperatures).
3. Insufficient watering leads to bitterness, early lignification and small root crops.

Good luck :)

21.05.2009 08:15:20

Girls, I have never planted vegetables. the father-in-law requested radishes at the dacha. Do the seeds need to be soaked? Do you germinate it at home first or just bury it in the ground? are there any secrets? thank you in advance.

And experience: soaking, in principle, is not necessary. The seeds germinate quite easily anyway. If you soak them, you need to watch when they swell; if you miss the moment and they hatch, it will be very difficult not to break them when sowing :-)
You can sow in furrows, but since I, for example, always sow deeply (on two phalanges of the index finger), it is problematic to make furrows - the soil in them immediately crumbles. Therefore, I sow (sowed, or rather :-), making “holes” in the ground with the same index finger, at a distance of about 1.5-2 cm. Then you don't have to thin out. In the same way, you can sow radishes to strawberries, for example (between rows and bushes in rows). Then you don’t have to dig a separate bed, which after harvesting radishes remains empty for 2/3 of the summer (unless you sow something else there).
Before sowing, it is better to water the soil ahead of time. for example, water in the evening and sow in the morning. Then the earth in the holes will not crumble.
In short, you made holes with your index finger (or whatever is more convenient :-), took a bag, put one seed into the hole, covered it with soil and wait. Water regularly.
General rules: water regularly (if you take a break from watering and then resume it, the radishes will crack), water quite generously (otherwise it will taste bitter), fight cruciferous flea beetles (sprinkle ash on the crops more often), sow as early as possible (if the daylight hours are long, the radishes will go away to the arrow). It seems that's it.
Good luck!

07.05.2004 07:05:48

Radish is perhaps the earliest vegetable. It is beneficial to our body, especially after a long period of time. winter period when the body receives few vitamins.

It is this that gardeners plant before other vegetables. Radishes are a fairly unpretentious crop, but there are certain rules for growing radishes.

When to plant radishes. Planting radishes

Radishes are considered a cold-resistant plant, so radish seeds can be sown in open ground as early as mid-April. Most optimal time from April 15 to May 20-25. There is a proven sign associated with snowdrops. If they bloom, then it’s time to sow radishes.
If you want to continuously consume a vitamin-rich vegetable, then you need to sow it at intervals of about three weeks throughout the summer.

Required soil for growing radishes. The plant requires loose and light soil. When planting radishes in heavy and clayey soil, humus and sand should first be added to the bed. Mineral fertilizers are also added according to the instructions on the package. When preparing beds for radishes in spring wood ash and manure cannot be introduced.

Beds for radishes should be made in a sunny place. But it is advisable that the sun is not in this place all day. Radishes cannot tolerate long daylight hours. This important rule when growing a good crop of radishes.

After preparing the bed for sowing radishes, grooves are made on it approximately 2 cm deep, at a distance of approximately 10 cm from each other. If you sow radishes in April, then it is better to spill the recesses for radish seeds with warm water, the temperature of which is above 50C.

Radish seeds should be sown at a distance of 2.5-3 cm. You can sow radish seeds that have been previously soaked. They will rise much faster. In early spring At night, sub-zero temperatures remain, so the bed must be covered with film or covering material.

How to water radishes. Radish care

Main reasons poor growth radish:
Lack of moisture
Poor soil, or vice versa, an excess of potassium fertilizers
Too much light (long daylight hours)
pests
To get a good harvest of radishes, they need to be watered regularly, daily. The water should be warm. When watering radishes, the soil must be thoroughly wetted, to a depth of at least 15-20 cm. In order for the radishes to grow tasty and tender, the soil must be constantly moist. In dry soil, radishes grow bitter, with coarse and tough fibers.

If the days are especially hot, then it is advisable to water the radishes not only in the evening, but also in the morning. After watering, once every three days the soil needs to be loosened, hilling up the radishes.
Thinning radish beds. Radish seeds are small and it is not always possible to sow them at a distance of 3-4 cm. Therefore, after germination, after about a week the radishes need to be thinned out.

Feeding and pests of radish. Radish pest control methods

If the radish grows poorly, the roots do not set, the tops are weak and their color is pale green, then the plants need to be fed.
To do this, there are various complex fertilizers in stores, which must be used according to the rate indicated on the packaging.

The main pest of radishes is the cruciferous flea beetle. It can cause great harm to plants. She simply turns young radish leaves into a sieve.
To repel fleas, you need to scatter pepper or mustard between the rows. Chemicals It’s still not worth using, since radish roots absorb very much chemical substances.

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