Growing beets can seem like a very simple process, but to vegetables grown large and tasty, the plant must receive proper care. If done correctly, the fruit will grow sweet and will be stored for a long time.
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Landing
Seeds are planted in well-lit a bed. To ground beet is not demanding, but it is better suited light neutral soil.
In late April planting early varieties, they ripen in late July, but are not suitable for winter storage. In the first half of June to plant beets, which will go into the cellar for the winter.
For sowing beet seeds are selected by the largest. Recent soak followed by germination. The seeds are soaked in the solution for one day, then washed in running water. For best results, soak in a solution nitrophosphate or superphosphate.
In preparing a bed planting furrow with a distance between them of 20-25 cm and abundantly watered. Prepared seeds are placed in the ground every 7-8 cm. Too often landing provoke low productivity, as well as very rare. The ground seeds should be immersed for 2-4 cm.
Care
Before sunrise the bed of seeds needed to loosen. This procedure will improve the ventilation of the soil, which is an important condition for the emergence of the sprouts. 2-4 day gently unconsolidated entire bed, and after the appearance of germs - only the spaces between the rows. When the beets grown up, you can loosen the soil to a depth of 8 cm, but it is important to keep intact areas around the roots. Also, you need to loosen the soil after rain and irrigation as the soil goes astray and becomes more dense.
Thinning is carried out in several stages and it is necessary to increase the space for the growth of roots. The more space for a beet, the bigger it will grow. The first thinning is performed 5-10 days after emergence of the sprouts. Soil abundantly watered, and then removed the weak shoots. Repeated thinning conducted after 3 weeks.
Regular watering - the key to a good harvest. Irrigation is not only reflected in the growth rate and size of the beets, but also in its taste: on a bed of dry roots grow hard and tasteless. Watering is done as dry topsoil. This is not to allow water to stagnate, because it damages the root system of sugar beet.
The successful cultivation of sugar beet affect fertilization. Better suited rotted organic and mineral fertilizers. Fresh manure does not apply from it roots grow coarse and become susceptible to disease.
Typically, fertilizer is carried out in 3 stages:
- solution of mullein or bird droppings fed the soil after the appearance of 3-4 leaves;
- superphosphate or magnesia fertilized at 2 weeks after the first feeding;
- month prior to collection of root crops spend feeding superphosphate or potassium sulfate.
Several times per season beets watered brine: 15-20 g diluted in 10 liters of water. This will make the roots sweeter.
collection
Already in August, you can dig up the roots for cooking. The bulk of the vegetables harvested in the second half of September. You need to choose a clear day, to the roots can dry out in the sun. If you dig sooner or too late, the beets will be poorly kept and even rot.
Vegetables at harvest should not be damaged, otherwise at this point they will begin to rot, and gradually deteriorates the whole fruit. Careful cleaning is carried out with pitchforks, not a shovel. Of dry soil fruits can pull out without tools.
At a distance of 2-3 cm from the base tops sheared off, thus it remains stump. The tip of the root can be cut, but it is better to leave: so long as beets continue.
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