Most maturing vegetables that you can start planting in early spring and in May to feast on fresh juicy fruit from your own site!
1. Radish
After 30 days after planting pink beads are ready for collection. Then nodules reached 2-3 cm in diameter. Plant is also used in cooking.
The best varieties: Pioneer in the garden, heat, Alex. For greenhouses start to sow radishes in March. The warmer, the faster the seeds grow. Meticulous care radish is not asking enough weeding and watering.
2. Carrot
Gentle tails are good in salads, soups, vegetable purees. Seeds germinate at temperatures ready +5 ° C, active shoots occur at +15 - +18 ° C.
Early-maturing varieties are ready to harvest after 50 days after germination. Such carrot tails can be harvested when the "shoulders" of the underground fruit are 2-3 cm in diameter. Suitable varieties: Artek, Bolteks, Pinky.
3. Salad
Lettuce ready to come to the table on the 30th day after planting seeds. Seedlings ready to hatch when the weather +5 ° C, moderate frost resistance - to -2 ° C. Recommended planting lettuce every 10 days. So fresh herbs to the table will be ready at all times.
Popular varieties of oakleaf, Odessa kucheryavets. When the constant zero temperature is set, the seedlings are faster, higher yield.
4. Repka
Known root Russian cooking. And the tops and roots can be eaten. Seeds of turnip ready for landing at +2 - + 4 ° C, the active input and will increase at 7 - + 10 ° C. Seedlings and young can survive prolonged freezing.
Tubers survived freezing, typically sweetish taste. Sow turnip can be in April-May, ready to harvest arrives 60-70 days. Young roots are popular in vegetarian cuisine, it is used for dairy turnip - 30-35 days.
5. Chard
Stuffed cabbage, stews, soups acquire a new flavor with the addition of stalks of Swiss chard. Juicy, young leaves and stalks are ready for the first harvest 40-45 days after germination. Bushes grow heap, bear fruit for a long time.
Thermophilic, can cope with the frosts to -3 ° C, but only if they are short. Chard planted into the ground possible, when the temperature set at around +5 ° C. Yields lasts the entire season!
6. green onions
Juicy feathers green onions can be obtained by sowing seeds. Bonus saturated with volatile production of green will be no less tasty chive. It is better to grow lettuce varieties. The first crop is ready for harvest already on the 30th day after sowing.
In open beds seeding better when the outside temperature is set to + 12 ° C. Green salad onions very tolerant of frost and can even spend the winter on the ridge, the new season germinating own.
Grades: Snowdrop, Russian hero, Pompeii. Unpretentious and quickly growing. The younger the feathers, so they are sweeter, and with the growth of green stalks are gaining more flavor and sharpness.
7. Mizuno
Variety of kale. carved leaves, reminiscent of arugula. Kochan does not form clumps growing up to 50 cm in height.
Leaf color from bright green to purple. Collect Mizuno can be 20-25 days after germination. By this time the shrubs reach 7-10 cm in height. A fully sprouts grow to 50 days.
Cabbage is cut at the root. Bushes can not pull up and leave before the end of the season, then at the end of the summer, you can harvest a slight thickening of the stem. The taste stalks resemble turnips. The taste leaves a slightly bitter, with a light mustard flavor.
Seeding of cabbage every 15-20 days can be carried out, so the crop can be harvested throughout the season. Mizuno can tolerate frosts down to -5 ° C, it does not require a lot of attention, but loves the sun and regular watering.