Radish is valued by many not only unique flavor, rich taste palette, for its high content of vitamins, amino acids, highly active enzymes, but also for its ease of cultivation. Knowing the secrets of agricultural technology, you can quickly get a good crop of juicy, tasty and useful vegetable. Common problems that may be encountered even experienced gardeners in growing this culture, it is necessary to consider cracking root crops, loss of palatability, bolting.
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Why radish breaks
Caring for radish is simple. Vegetables should be timely weeding, regular watering, cool, loosening, the right combination of "day-night", pest and disease control.
Sometimes a seeming compliance with all necessary rules agricultural technology of growing radishes begins to crack. This occurs for the following reasons:
- Excessive watering plants.
- soil drying, long-term break from watering.
- Wrong choice of soil. Culture likes slightly acidic sandy soils.
- Using an excess of nitrogen fertilizers (fresh manure).
- Overripening root. Timely collection should be carried out after 5-6 days for 2-3 hours.
- Thickening landings without thinning.
Vegetables should not be planted on land where previously grown plants such as turnips, horseradish, kale, watercress and so forth. This is due to the probability of destruction of the same pests and diseases. Place planting radishes should be replaced after 2-3 years due to the rapid depletion of the soil. As suitable precursor of the root perform tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, peppers, bean.
Why radish tough and fibrous
Growing radish should be done on a loose fertile soil, which provides free access of oxygen to the root system of plants. On the surface of the solid soil after a heavy rainfall or excessive irrigation a dense crust. Not getting enough oxygen least root stops its development and will be tough and juicy taste. You can solve the problem of loosening the soil, be careful not to peel.
Fibrous, hard-veined vegetable becomes at overripening. Untimely collection and lack of irrigation makes radishes inedible and tasteless.
Adverse weather conditions, including dry or rainy cold summer, can serve as another reason for getting hard root. Cottagers in this case it is necessary to create more comfortable conditions for vegetables - special materials to shade him from the sun, or to hide from the cold and rain.
Why poorly formed roots of radish
Sometimes it is possible to note the rapid flowering and bolting radish seeds with a bookmark. This adversely affects the formation of roots. They fade, become small, dry and unsuitable for human consumption. Causes active vegetable flowering may be:
- hot weather;
- dry soil;
- irrigating with warm water;
- the use of inappropriate fertilizers.
Radish develops and grows well at temperature not higher than + 15... + 20 ° C. Daylight hours should not exceed 8-10 hours. Otherwise, the plant will go to the arrow, and begin to prepare for the flowering and reproduction. If you can not create the conditions for the normal development of the root, its cultivation makes a break to reduce the period of daylight. The use of phosphate and potash fertilizers promote abundant flowering plants.
If you do not neglect the above tips, you can in their home gardens to grow big, juicy and tasty tubers.
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