Black radish: planting and care

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Black radish is an extremely useful vegetable. It contains a huge amount of essential oils and vitamins. This root crop is used to treat colds and perfectly increases appetite. It is very easy to grow it in a summer cottage - this culture is absolutely unpretentious.

Black radish, which can be planted both in seedlings and in seeds, loves sunny places very much. Most often, this root crop is still grown right in the open field. However, in the event that you want to get the harvest early, you can sow seedlings in special containers.

The timing of planting directly into the ground depends on the variety. The bed is prepared with the addition of compost to the soil. In no case should you fertilize the radish with fresh manure. This can lead to the fact that the plants will subsequently be affected by any pests. Black radish, which can be planted both in spring and summer, prefers loose soils. Early varieties should be planted in early May, at the same time as the radish. Late - mid-June.

If you sow the autumn variety earlier, the plant may produce flower stalks, which is highly undesirable. Therefore, the timing of planting black radish in this case must be strictly observed. Seeds are buried in the ground by about 2 cm, several seeds each. The distance between the rows is 40 cm, between the holes - 15 cm. When the rudiments of the root crop appear, the first thinning is carried out. All weak plants are removed. The second time you will need to thin out the radish after the root crops reach a size of 5-6 mm. At the same time, one, the most powerful plant is left in the hole.

Black radish, which is planted, as mentioned above, in composted beds, loves periodic watering. In no case should the soil under it dry out, otherwise the root crops will grow tasteless - in particular, they will become hollow. Fertilize the radish twice a summer. For the first time after the plant has three true leaves. In the second - a month after that.

As a top dressing, you can use herbal fermented infusion, two-year-old manure, compost or humus. Some summer residents consider organic fertilizers not very useful for a plant like black radish. Planting it can be carried out without adding compost to the beds. In this case, the plants are fed with mineral elements. Usually a mixture is used, consisting of 60 g of superphosphate, 15 g of potassium chloride and 20 g of urea.

Mineral fertilizers are considered preferred by some experienced gardeners because theyAccording to organic reduce the quality of root crops and their keeping quality.

During the growing process, if the soil under the plants is clayey, it should be periodically loosened. Autumn radish must be harvested before the start of frost. If harvesting is late, root crops may become woody.

So, black radish can be planted (depending on the variety) in spring or summer. During the season, two top dressings are carried out with mineral or organic fertilizers and make sure that the soil under the plants does not dry out. In this case, you can get an excellent harvest of tasty and he althy root crops.