Black radish is an unusually healthy vegetable. It contains a huge amount of essential oils and vitamins. This root crop is used to treat colds and improves 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 seeds, loves sunny places very much. Most often, this root crop is still grown directly in the open ground. However, if you want to get the crop early, you can sow seedlings in special containers.
The timing of planting directly in the soil 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 plants will subsequently be affected by any pests. Black radish, which can be planted both in spring and summer, prefers loose soil. Early varieties should be planted in early May, at the same time as radishes. Late - in mid-June.
If you sow the autumn variety earlier, the plant can produce peduncles, which is extremely undesirable. Therefore, the timing of planting black radish in this case must be strictly observed. Seeds are buried in the soil by about 2 cm, a few seeds. The distance between the rows is 40 cm, between the holes is 15 cm. When root buds appear, the first thinning is carried out. All weak plants are removed. The second time it will be necessary to thin out the radish after the root crops have reached a size of 5-6 mm. At the same time, one, the most powerful plant is left in the hole.
Black radish, planting of which is carried out, as already mentioned above in composted beds, loves periodic watering. The soil under it should in no case dry out, otherwise the root crops will grow tasteless - in particular, they will become hollow. Fertilize radish twice a summer. For the first time after three true leaflets appear on the plant. In the second - a month after that.
As a top dressing, you can use herbal fermented infusion, two-year manure, compost or humus. Some summer residents consider organic fertilizers not too useful for a plant like black radish. Planting it can be carried out without making compost 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 by some experienced gardeners to be preferred, since in their opinion organic reduces the quality of root crops and their keeping quality.
During the cultivation process, if the soil under the plants is clayey, it should be loosened periodically. Autumn radish needs to be managed to remove before the start of frost. If you are late for harvesting, root crops can become stiff.
So, planting black radish can be carried out (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 crop of tasty and healthy root crops.