Daikon deservedly vacationers love our latitude, but appeared recently. The main agricultural benefits daikon: a variety of grades, hardy species, long storage, ruggedness during cultivation. Fruits radish very useful to aid in the healing of wounds, gastrointestinal stabilize operation, help breastfeeding increased lactation.
The taste is sweet and juicy, radish offline familiar to bitterness.
Planting radishes in Japan is carried out depending on the varietal identity. Most early varieties are sown in spring, as well as the daikon mature fairly quickly, then in late spring period, you can get the first-fruits.
There are a bunch of radish, which can even spend the winter, if winter is not particularly cold.
The variety of grades allows you to select the kind of kitchen garden radish depending on the available soil. As a rule, it is lighter, clay and loam, sandy soil types. Almost at every ground you can find a radish.
But it should be for productive planting remember that overseas guest prefers b / in the ground, that is, one in which prior to sowing have something growing
. Best of all, if before the Japanese radish grown squash culture, squash, cucumbers, scallops.Japanese radish loves albeit small, but regular care. The soil should be periodically loosen, constantly watered. planting site should be bright, but not too much. After the first embryonic leaves, the remaining shoots are removed.
Fresh crops fertilized only crushed ash, other fertilizers, especially manure, daikon dislikes. Especially if the soil is well fertilized before that.
Daikon have many enemies - crucifer flea beetles, slugs, caterpillars. With the first two handle helps ash that is either sprinkled the ground or do around the vegetable groove and fill it with ash. From caterpillar to help solution of potassium permanganate, hot red pepper. Basically, the radish is well kept, but if it is a little damage, food is no longer suitable. This applies to harvesting, for damage daikon is very easy. Radishes harvested in dry weather, carefully removing it from the soil, as there are varieties that resemble large icicle. Therefore, fractures in half a grade can be very simple.
In those cases, when the ground is hard and vegetables can not be stretching, the area around it a little added dropwise villas or shovel.