Turnip: when to plant and when to dig out - planting and care, tips and reviews
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We grow turnips - planting and care in the open field
The owners explain the appearance of different overseas cultures in the gardens by the fact that, they say, the benefits of them are a wagon and a small cart. In most cases, this is really so. But does this mean that we used to grow solid nonsense? Of course not! So let's talk about the heroine of fairy tales and sayings - about turnips.
Children's question about the turnip ...
As you know, the mouth of a baby speaks truth. And so it turned out. We read the fairy tale "Turnip" at the cottage, and suddenly the granddaughter asks: "And this turnip - is it really what?" That's when I thought seriously. Well, it’s necessary, it’s like I’m planting everything in the garden, what’s necessary (something even without any special need — I repent, I chased after fashion), but our product is not original. But before the advent of potatoes, people ate turnips, and nothing, I liked it, probably. In general, she promised her granddaughter that I would not only show it, but also treat it.
At the end of the growing season regular and regular turnip irrigation determines the yield and quality of root crops. If four weeks before harvesting the plants have never suffered from a lack of moisture, their beautiful fruits will turn out with a delicate and tasty pulp. After watering, it is necessary to always loosen row spacing.
Turnip seeds bought only next year. It turned out that they are small but sturdy. At first, I did not know how to act with this “new” culture for the garden, I did not find anything intelligible about turnips, so I decided to follow my own trial and error method. And the most interesting was. Those seeds, by the way, were varieties Petrovskaya-1, so far I have not tasted anything tastier!
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Planting turnip
For turnip a separate place was not found (what to do, six hundred square meters, nevertheless, every meter is planned), so she sowed the seeds to dill, and even at the gazebo she broke the small beds with dahlias in place of the dahlias so that the granddaughter could observe and grow the turnip herself.
Sowed, like radish, in the holes, located a line across the garden, two centimeters deep. Of course, due to the fact that the seeds are very small, I did not calculate the distance between them, and my turnip rose just a fur coat. She pulled her then mercilessly: let her stay in the end, but she will be free. And it happened.
In just a month, the turnip was so strong that my granddaughter and I had already tried the first root crops. Already could eat! Not very ripe, but added to the salads without fear. In addition, turnip turned out to be just remarkably juicy tops with a touch of radish - also in salads is not out of place.
And the first real crop we took off, when the roots began to show up from the ground. Turnip turned out just for a long time: smooth, clean, the color of melted butter. But she was only at the gazebo. On the other bed, next to the dill, some of the root crops were cracked, and even became numb. Perhaps I missed the cleaning time, but I think the turnip did not like the neighborhood, especially since there was also a cabbage patch next to it.
Now I already know for certain that it is only necessary to plant a turnip in the most open places, and in no case after radish or cabbage!
Every year I choose for the turnip well-lit and ventilated areas, do not grow much, but even a small landing is enough for the summer and winter.
Turnip Care
It seems that there are no troubles when growing this crop: watering, weeding, top dressing. Again, not by timing, but depending on how she behaves. I see that the tops have slightly faded - in the evening, by all means, plentiful watering.
Turnip I cherish, I water only with warm, settled water, I feed it with infusion from the grass.
I loosen often, the day after each watering. When sowing and during the growth of the tops, it is obligatory to drench ash and tobacco dust right up to the gray plaque. Turnip, after all, too, from cruciferous, so it is necessary to carry out prophylaxis against omnivorous fleas.
Now I approach the quality of the beds thoroughly. She also learned from her own experience that she likes turnips of light soils, so I add a little sand or forest soil.
Checking Sayings
We eat turnips in large quantities in the summer, even raw. Already accustomed to its slightly fresh taste, and it does not seem like some kind of fabulous vegetable. Well, how was it possible not to try that very steamed turnip, which is simpler than nothing? And here it was a hitch ...
No matter how I tried to cook the simplest dish in the world, everything turned out contrary to the saying: either it will remain raw or it will burn. Most likely, turnips soared in the cast iron in the Russian stove. I began to do this: turn the turnip into slices and on the baking tray I bring it to the mind-mind in the oven. The pieces shrivel, but are baked fine.
And I'm making mashed potatoes from turnips. This is the same as potato, but the taste is much more pleasant, especially if you add unrefined sunflower oil. Just lick your fingers! And the porridge from turnips with berries or apples in general does not go into any comparison! Her children and the cold for a sweet soul are weaving.
In general, turnip is a very convenient vegetable, because in a season I usually take two crops. The first (the same variety Petrovskaya-1 sow at the end of April) we try in mid-July, the second sowing in June. Turnip ripen in August-September and is suitable for long-term storage. Unfortunately, I do not know the names of this variety, but the root crops are not yellow, but pinkish in color.
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How to keep a turnip
I keep my turnips in plywood boxes from old parcels, I cut off the tops to the ground, but I do not touch the tail and small roots so that there are no microcracks.
Turnip is not only an excellent substitute for potatoes, but also a wonderful medicine. In the fruits of her a lot of magnesium, so turnip just need to eat people with cardiovascular diseases. And the juice helps cough, we treat the whole family, we do not take any potions.
That's how a simple and irreplaceable turnip reliably registered in our garden.
Growing turnips - readers share reviews and experiences
9 varieties of turnips
Turnip is a native Russian culture, and before Peter I it was one of the main vegetables on the table, which later gave way to potatoes. At present, a large number of turnip varieties has appeared, including for Siberia. I decided to check what some of them are and to experiment with the timing of sowing.
"Participants" of the experiment
Sown 9 varieties of turnips,
- Petrovskaya is a mid-early variety, the root crop is flat-round with a concave bottom, the mass of which reaches 200 g. The pulp is hard, yellow, juicy, sweet.
- Geisha is an early ripe variety, the mass of the root crop is 60-90 g, in shape - flat-round, white. It has a delicate skin and thick juicy flesh. It can be grown both open and in protected ground.
- The comet is a mid-season variety, has an original cylindrical shape of a root crop with a thickening in the lower part. Weight 90-120 g.
- Golden ball - medium early variety, the mass of a round root crop with hard juicy pulp is 60-150 g.
- The moon - the period from seedlings to technical ripeness 68-72 days. The mass of a round root crop is 130-240 g. It has a thin yellow skin and juicy flesh.
- Russian size - the period from full germination to technical ripeness -60-70 days. Golden yellow fleshy root crop with an average weight of 200 g.
- Pellet is a mid-season variety, the root crop is round-round, white, weighing up to 200 g, the pulp is tender, white, juicy.
- Maraca - early salad variety, root crop with an average weight of 100 g, rounded with juicy dense pulp, well stored, resistant to bacteriosis, easily pulled out. FS Snow - an early ripe variety, a round white root crop, weighing 90 g, with delicate skin, juicy dense pulp.
We check the deadlines
I chose 2 sowing dates - spring (early May) and summer (early July). I did not find any strong differences in field germination in varieties and dates. This indicator ranged from 86-93%. Mass shoots appeared almost simultaneously - about 4 days, however, with spring sowing, the delay was about 2 days. Also, during spring sowing, the formation of root crops was delayed for 6 days - this indicator in different varieties varied from 28 to 33 days.
The time to technical ripeness of root crops was 70-80 days. Varieties Rattle, Snowball and Geisha could be eaten after 45 days. By biometric indicators (leaf mass and length, root weight), the varieties Petrovskaya, Snezhok Pogremyushka, Comet and Geisha stood out. With the summer term of sowing of these varieties, the leaf length at the end of September reached 60-70 cm, the diameter of the root crop was 10-20 cm, and its weight was 250-400 g. In spring sowing, the indices were 1,5 times lower.
Yield and taste
In the conditions of the Tyumen district, the yield declared on the bags was justified, the mass of root crops was from 250 to 400. I received an average and high yield in Geisha, Snowball and Rattles, the weight of root crops which reached 2 kg.
In the spring term, the turnip of turnip was damaged by pests of cruciferous cultures (flea, fly) less than in summer. This is due to unfavorable conditions for the multiplication of pests, whose activity increases at high air temperatures.
On the taste of the following. By softness and sweetness I liked the varieties Snowball. Rattle, Golden Ball and Geisha.
The results obtained depended on the weather conditions in the south of Siberia. In May-June, precipitation falls less, and average daily temperatures are lower than in July and August. Such combination of weather conditions promotes more intensive growth of root crops during summer sowing.
Thus, in the conditions of the south of Western Siberia, summer turnip planting is preferable. If desired, you can create a conveyor belt. In the spring, grow a turnip for summer consumption, and in the summer sow for storage for the winter,
© Author: Dmitry Litvinov, Ph.D., Tyumen
Is it easier to "steamed" turnips
Also want to talk about turnips.
In our time, it is mostly known only by the name of the fairy tale. Nowadays it's rare where you can meet her, but in former times it had the same meaning as potatoes. A crop failure in Rus was equated with a natural disaster. It is not only nutritious, but also very useful. By the amount of vitamin C almost twice exceeds lemons, oranges, white cabbage, and also raspberries and strawberries. Her juice was used to treat asthma, diabetes, with loss of voice. By the way, cough rap is treated very effectively. I just rub it on the grater and eat it with honey, and the next day I already feel a great relief.
Turnip does not have a pungent smell and taste, like a radish, so I have no problem persuading the children to have it. From young leaves I prepare a salad. They taste very similar to mustard, and there are more vitamins in them than in the root crops themselves. Yes, apparently, it was not in vain that the people composed so many proverbs about turnips! Good girl, like a washed turnip! Turnip - meat, cut and eat. When there will be a turnip, then a measure. Turnip and rutabaga people are praised.
To grow a turnip is simple.
- The soil should be loose and fertile. Turnip is a culture of photophilous, so you need to choose a sunny area.
- Before sowing, immediately add ash or potash fertilizers. Dung can not be brought. I shed the soil with warm water and sow the seeds to a depth of 0,5-1 cm. I mix seeds before sowing with sand, they are very small.
- After planting, you must immediately cover the ground, for example, with humus.
- Thinning planting regularly. The first time is when the shoots appear, then every 7-10 days.
- Turnip must be abundant, not sparing water, water. If you do not, it will grow shallow and will be bitter. But too much water can not be watered.
- Soot two times. The first is spring air, when the air warms up to 15-18 °, the second time at the end of August. Turnip does not like heat, at high temperature it becomes rough.
- I observe a crop rotation. You can not grow a turnip after other cruciferous (cabbage, radish, radish, mustard).
- For all the time I feed twice. The first - immediately after thinning, the second - a month later. I use ash.
- I clean selectively after 50-70 days. In the autumn I clean everything at once. I dig it out very carefully so as not to damage the root crops, I cut the tops at the level of the head. I keep it in the basement - put it in a row and pour it with sand.
© Author: Ekaterina IGNATYEVA Theodosia Crimea
Problems associated with growing turnips
Problem | What to do? |
Woody or porous turnip | Poor root quality is associated with hot, dry weather or lack of potassium and phosphorus. Change the weather is impossible, but you can try to plant a turnip in the fall. Try applying green sandstone to fill nutrient deficiencies and mulch to maintain soil moisture and lower its temperature. |
Sharp or bitter taste | This can be the result of hot, dry weather or aging of root vegetables. The next time you better mulch the crops and collect turnips while the roots are small. |
Poor harvest | Turnip grows poorly if its planting is thickened or it lacks water. She also does not like heavy soil. The next time you put a turnip at a greater distance from each other in a loose, well-treated and filled with organic fertilizer soil and water it regularly. |
Root crops turn black | The reasons for this may be different, including the lack of boron. Make sure the pH is 6,0-8,0, use foliar top dressing and improve soil quality by planting ground cover clover. If the plants are sick, destroy them (and roots, and greens). Make a new landing in another part of the garden. |
Withering plants | If turnip fades in moist soil, pull out a few root crops. If they are deformed or enlarged, with pineal distention, the reason is the keel. The mushroom that causes it prefers an acidic soil. Keep an eye on the sanitary condition of the garden and alternate the planting. In the area where the keel is found, representatives of the cruciferous family cannot be grown for 7 years! |
Root courses | The larva of the cabbage fly eats away at the roots, making them vulnerable to disease. Destroy the affected plants. In the future, cover the plants with plant protection film. It is possible to get rid of caterpillars in the ground by watering the soil around each plant with lime water. To prepare the solution, 1 should be well mixed with a cup of lime in 1 l of water and allowed to stand for a few hours before use. |
© Tatyana KUDRYAVTSEVA. Kovrov, Vladimir region
On sale today, you can find many varieties of turnips, and I prefer to grow a proven Petrovskaya, distinguished by the noble golden color of root crops and excellent taste, as well as white salad Japanese Geisha, which is extremely juicy and completely without bitterness (but the advertised variety Well, pull it. disappointed by all parameters, even appearance).
It is believed that this vegetable, as they say, is easier to steam turnip, because it is quite unpretentious. In fact, everything was not so simple. Personally, for several years I could not achieve a good and clean harvest. And all because there are too many fans in the garden to eat a turnip: cruciferous fleas eat up all the leaves, and the larvae of the cabbage fly and the wireworm gnaw through the roots with pleasure. I tried to powder the leaves and ground around the plants with ashes, mustard, hot pepper and tobacco dust, but the effect from them is kept only until the first rain. And the chemistry did not want to apply what kind of a turnip would it be to me and my grandchildren? But I did not want to refuse a useful vegetable, and I tried to find another solution.
First I planted a turnip in the furrows, previously pouring mustard powder in them, mixed with hot pepper. The result was more effective than the leafing of leaves: young leaves and root crops, but also self-sowing. When they fade, I close perennials, and in the spring I remove and shelter this shelter.
This time, she was not too lazy: she chopped dry marigold bushes finely with a pruner, poured them with a thick layer on a bed and dug them well, mixing them with the ground, before planting turnips. Sprinkled holes with mustard and pepper - still a proven tool.
The result of such events was excellent - turnips planted in "velvet" land for a long time remained in the garden, not touched by pests.
Although to wait until the turnip grows up, as in a fairy tale, it is so big that I can’t stretch it out without help, I don’t advise it - it will be “wooden” and tasteless. Better eat her young! And so that the turnip does not get bitter, we must not forget to water it more often.
© Author: Elena Irkutsk
Do not scrub "turnip", plant a turnip
When you learn interesting details about turnips, you begin to wonder why it has so little space in our kitchen gardens. This vegetable, thanks to glucurafinin, is a good prevention of diabetes and even reduces the risk of developing cancer. So it's worth returning the turnips to our kitchen gardens.
Location and soil
To obtain a good crop of turnip, it is necessary to isolate for it soils of light and medium composition with a high content of organic matter and a low occurrence of groundwater. Clay soils are not suitable for it. Reaction of the soil environment, she prefers a weakly acidic.
Good predecessors for turnips are potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, strawberries. Do not sow it after the related plants, such as radish, dyke and cabbage. You can grow it in one place for two years.
Soil preparation for it is usual, the main thing is to get a loose, leveled surface without significant lumps.
fertilizers
Fertilizers (in order to avoid their leaching) are applied in spring under pre-sowing cultivation: potash-phosphorus - from the calculation of 15-20 g / mg Nitrogen is better not to abuse, since an excess of this element spoils the taste of turnips. Organics in the form of compost or humus is introduced in the amount of: half a bucket per 1 m '. In general, you can limit yourself to a mixture of ash with compost. If the soil is acidic, then dolomite flour or wood ash should be added (1 kg / m2).
Sowing
You can sow turnips in two terms. If you want to feast on it in the summer, then sowing! in late April - early May, and for winter storage this can be done in late July - early August. Before sowing, it is necessary to warm the seeds by wrapping them in a cloth and dropping them for 10 minutes in water with a temperature of 40-60 degrees.
Since the turnip seeds are small, they are sown in a mixture with sand in grooves with a depth of I-2 cm. From above, sprinkle immediately with soil, shed water and sprinkle with ashes: it will serve both as a fertilizer and as a preventive against a cruciferous flea.
When spring sowing, the bed should be covered with a spunbond or covered with hay or compost. As early as 2-4, sprouts will appear.
Care
Steamed turnip crops as weeds appear, combining this technique with loosening the rows. At the same time, thick shoots can be thinned, as root crops need free space.
Watering should be done once a week, taking into account the weather. It is especially important in the formation of root vegetables. In a well-moistened soil, turnips are round and juicy, and on dry soil grow small and bitter roots.
Council
The best feeding for turnips is an ash infusion - 120 g (a glass) in the evening to dissolve in a bucket of water and let it brew. Constantly stirring, pour into pre-prepared grooves, which immediately sprinkle. After three weeks, repeat top dressing.
Cleaning of turnip
In summer, turnips are harvested as they mature. Do not wait long - in large root crops the flesh becomes coarse. Cleaning in the fall, try to avoid frost. Dig the root vegetables with a shovel, remove them from the ground and cut off the leaves as soon as possible. If this is not done, they will draw moisture and nutrients onto themselves. Try to avoid mechanical damage.
Storage
After the deletion, it is necessary to allow the turnips to dry for a few days in a dry ventilated room, and then you can lower them into the cellar. For storage it is best to use wooden boxes with rare slats, this will allow free circulation of air.
© Author: Dmitry Ilyich DYAKONOV, Agronomist, Gomel Region, Uluhovye a / g
My husband pulled a turnip ...
Paraphrasing a well-known anecdote, we can say that if you don’t like any “old” vegetable, then you just don’t know how to cook it.
Or maybe grow it. But this thing is fixable - there would be a desire.
Once on television, my husband and I saw a program in which we talked about the turnip. They didn’t think at all how many, it turns out, all sorts of substances useful for health it contains! Vitamin C, for example, is more in it than in any other vegetable, and there are also vitamins of group B, vitamin P and macro- and microelements such as sulfur, iodine magnesium, copper, iron, zinc, manganese, potassium. And in turnips there is glucoraphanin - a substance that prevents the appearance of new cancer cells and neutralizes existing ones. And even the smell of cut root crops brings benefits: since turnips contain a hefty supply of essential oil, its evaporation has immuno-strengthening and antibacterial properties.
My husband and I looked at each other - but really, why in our garden there was no place for such an amazing and at the same time familiar culture? In short, they even got excited. And the husband also fell into childhood memories, as he and his tomboy friends dragged turnips from the beds and nibbled them, and she was all so sweet and tasty ... In general, they firmly decided to plant turnips and went to a large and proven gardening store for seeds. And we bought bags with two varieties there - Petrovskaya
and some other white variety (we forgot the name from the chagrin, but why - the speech is ahead). In the spring, as soon as the ground warmed up, I planted all the seeds and began to care for the sprouts that appeared, as for a radish: I watered, fed green fertilizer, podkuchivaet the ground so that the tops of the root crops were not with green. And then autumn came.
And it was here that it turned out that the very white turnip (on the bag was a beautiful photo) was almost completely gone to the tops. They began to undermine Petrovskaya and saw that her roots had grown strong and of medium size (I personally do not like large vegetables, because I have to constantly pull them through).
The husband joyfully rubbed his hands in anticipation of pleasure. He started tasting and was surprised: the turnip turned out to be sweet-tart and rough. It was just so tasty and ... uninteresting. What was the reason for this, I do not know. Maybe I didn't take care of her like that? Or were there any other varieties before? Or maybe in the post-war hungry years, in general, everything seemed tasty? But what to do with the crop now?
The husband thought and thought and said: “We must steam it. You look, she will be sweet. " But there was no confidence in his words. Yes, and sorry to steam up the roots, because all the vitamins are lost during heat treatment, and in winter they are not enough. But then I started cooking at home.
for the sake of curiosity, she decided to add the salad to a grated turnip, grated on a large grater. It turned out very tasty! That sweetish astringency and gave the dish an unusual taste!
Moreover, the turnip is not the bitterness, which has a radish. The husband tried, he was delighted. And now I always add a turnip grated on a coarse grater to salads, thereby preserving all the most useful things in it. In addition, in this form, it turns out not quite rough. And although I have a sick stomach (and turnips are contraindicated for those who suffer from chronic gastrointestinal ailments, as well as liver and kidneys), I also savor these salads. Abused? No, just in everything you need to know when to stop.
And now I will share two favorite recipes. First: cut, how much sweetheart you want, tomatoes, cucumbers, Chinese cabbage, green onions, add grated turnip and season with mayonnaise. The second recipe: grate apples, carrots, turnips, and add finely chopped dill, parsley and mayonnaise or sour cream. Simple, but how delicious! So plant a turnip and gain health over the winter. Now, on the eve of the new season, she began to read the literature about turnips and was surprised how much she had, it turns out, varieties. And I got an idea to test them.
© Author: Т.А. ZAVYALOVA
Growing turnips in the Samara region - planting and care
Once upon a time, turnip was considered almost the main food, and not because there was no other, but because the benefits were great. Now it is rarely remembered.
And after all, it is with her that healthy nutrition and the fight against excess weight begin, which our favorite potatoes so generously endow with us ...
So I wanted to write about the turnip. As I had not grown it skillfully before, I also received “oak” root crops. The first two pulled out - they were a delicate yellow color, sweet and soft to the tooth. And then I think: let them still grow up (I planted the Petrovskaya-1 variety in May), and when, by the end of the summer, I pulled out my turnip, it was all with voids inside and tough, rough. Fed the chickens. It turns out that I overexposed it in the ground. So I found out that you need to meet the deadlines indicated on the package with seeds.
That's T.A. Zavyalova the same misfortune happened. Young, 3-4 cm in diameter - tender and sweet, with a special aroma, which her husband T.A. remembered. Zavyalova. Previously, after all, no one expected when it would grow big: there was a 3-4 cm spine - they pulled and ate everything that was edible. And we were like that in childhood: carrots will grow up a bit - we are already tugging. With a glass (we find broken glass in the courtyard near the rubble) we scrape and eat. For hogweed went to the forest, everything happened ...
In general, all root crops for food should be grown in two crops (spring and summer), and for winter storage should be sown in the middle-end of June (carrots - under Trinity). If the summer is hot, you can sow in mid-July.
This applies to Margelan radish and all Japanese daikons, but black must be sown in June, no later: it grows tight. And as it comes up, protect from fleas - immediately cover with lutrasil. I cover like
I’ll only plant it, otherwise you can’t see how it rises, because it’s three or four days, and the flea will nibble it in one night, some stumps will remain. Last year I was reseeding. But it was like that.
She planted, went up, I showered her with ash, but that didn’t help - all the fleas were eaten during the night! A week later, she planted again (she thought a week: to plant or not - after all, August had already begun), sprinkled with ashes on top and covered with lutrasil - two beds in one piece of 5 × 4 m, pressed the edges tightly with boards. Three days later, everything rose again, poured, closed and poured on lutrasil. Two weeks later, I opened it, transplanted it, poured more ashes, again closed everything and opened it only when frost had already begun.
Yes, large root crops did not grow, but it is for the better. Radish (Lobo and Russian black) grew 4-5 cm in diameter - just once: prepare a salad. It is stored perfectly in the cellar until May.
Cabbage Stones
Now about Beijing cabbage: it also grows rapidly, and for winter consumption I plant it also in mid-June or a little later. Only four to five seeds - and the harvest for the whole winter is enough.
The summer was hot, and it grew under my lutrasil. I watered under the root every three days, plentifully, and again covered it with lutrasil.
It is undesirable to water it from above - it can rot. But what about the rain, ask? And the rain has a completely different structure of water, and it does not harm the cabbage.
Rain is living water, but what is heated in barrels is heavy, as if condensed water (its molecules coalesce into chains), it is desirable to pour such water with a watering can with a sprayer - then the chains break, and water becomes available to plants. Have you noticed what the plantings look like after the rain, although we watered them before that? Here it is, the power of "moving water"!
You can not overexpose kohlrabi cabbage - get stones in the truest sense of the word. You can only chop it with an ax to get to the middle, and then only to feed its chickens. It may, of course, turn out to clean it and grate, but this is not the pleasure that you will receive from the young and tender fruit of this cabbage. There is a time for everything - do not miss the deadlines, and everything will be in your openwork.
Dear summer residents! Do not lose hope and work miracles at your dachas! Good luck to everyone and, of course, health. I even increased my strength as the sowing began - there was a sense in every day, otherwise in the winter we somehow stuck, added weight, and now you get up in the morning - and to the window: well, how are you, who has grown up, who hung the leaves? In short, a new day has come. Go!
By the way
Turnip is an excellent skin care product; all the beauties of Ancient Russia used it. Juice from this vegetable not only cleanses and tones the skin, but also saturates it with useful trace elements. Turnip is a great whitening product that effectively removes freckles. It is also suitable for problematic skin, but its main property is the ability to give a tired, healthy skin a radiant look.
With respect to all who are not indifferent to Mother Earth,
© Author: Lyubov Samara Region
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Many summer residents completely stopped putting their turnips on their plots. But in vain, because this primordially Russian vegetable was widely consumed in Russia before the widespread distribution of potatoes. My grandfather told me that earlier a disaster was a crop failure. Surprisingly, learn about the turnip only from a fairy tale.
Turnip is a rather unpretentious culture, but in August, when the fruits are gaining strength, one should not forget about abundant watering, otherwise the root crops will grow small, and besides they will be bitter. If we need strong, large and tasty fruits, surface watering will not work, we must completely soak the soil with water.
Summer crop turnips for winter storage I feed a couple of times. You can use ash for this. Thinning is also regular, since turnip seeds are very small and fruits can turn out a lot, but if not thin, the fruits will be small. The first time I thin the planting right after the shoots, then every two weeks. The final distance between the plants does not less than 10 cm. I make sure that the soil remains loose, because too hard soil deforms the fruit, changing their taste not for the better.
From pests, especially fleas, I use ash and dry mustard, they also fertilize the earth. I harvest the summer turnip when the fruits reach about 8 cm in diameter. And the winter one - I clean it completely for storage in one sitting, immediately cutting off the tops so that the nutrients do not go into it. In winter, turnip is well stored at temperatures from 0 to 1 degree heat, the optimum humidity is 90-95%.
Dmitry Petrovich HARCHEVKIN, Bryansk
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Many people put their turnips on trial, but then they are disappointed in it, because root crops grow bitter. However, my dear, this is completely the fault of the gardener, not of culture. With proper care turnip will be sweet and tasty.
Fray under turnips do in the sun, but there, where previously did not grow cruciferous. Soil from the autumn dig and insert into it a half-liter can of wood ash at 1 sq. M. m. But do not bring manure! When turnip spring up, dilute it.
And then weed regularly. Culture does not like closeness. Seed the seedbed and water more often. From the lack of moisture in the root crops, just the bitterness appears. In especially hot days at noon, prune plants with gauze or newspapers.
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There was a time when turnip at me grew clumsy and unsweetened, but now I know that to get delicious root crops it needs to be watered and loosened more often, especially if the soil is dense.
We simply peel the ripened turnip, cut into slices and chew. I also add it to vegetable stew and cereal. All relatives eat and ask for supplements. I’m glad because turnip is a very healthy vegetable. Moreover, it can be used not only for food, but also as a cosmetic product. For example, I make such a mask from turnips. I clean the root crop, cut into slices, chop in a blender, then add
1 st. l. olive oil and carrot juice. Evenly put on the face, and after 20 min. I wash off with warm water. The skin becomes more gentle than the tender one!
Very good turnip for hair. For the preparation of nutrient I take 4 st. l. juice turnips, 1 art. l. burdock oil and 1 tsp. juice, squeezed from onions. I mix everything and rub it into the roots of my hair. I wrap my head in a plastic bag, and I wind the towel from above. So I go for half an hour, and then I wash my head twice with shampoo. After such rubbing, the hair begins to grow much faster and become shiny and thick.
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The year before last, my mother planted turnips - grown very tasty, sweet, juicy. Last year, I also decided to sow the same variety. And what do you think? I have grown normal-looking root crops, well, maybe a little smaller than my mother, but completely tasteless. Why did this happen? What affects the taste of turnips?
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To get delicious root crops, it is not enough just to sow seeds. Several agrotechnical requirements must be observed. First, the soil must be fertile, with a neutral reaction, since turnip grows well on light sandy and unoxidized soils.
Secondly, the optimum temperature for growing turnips is 15-18 °, so you need to sow turnips quite early.
At a higher temperature, the root crops coarsen and lose their taste. Thirdly, watering should be regular, as with a lack of moisture, root crops become hard, acquire bitterness and an unpleasant smell. In the fourth place, turnip well responds to moderate fertilizing with humus and fertilizers with magnesium and boron. The latter affect the sugar content of root crops. In addition, it is necessary to thin out the crops, in time to treat them from pests and diseases
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turnip I grow 2 varieties - Granddaughter and Glasha. Both varieties are early ripe, but perfectly stored. The main thing is to observe the timing of sowing. To eat turnips in July, I sow it at the very beginning of May (later in the cold spring). For winter storage I spend crops in mid-July. This vegetable is unpretentious, it is enough to water plantings on time and feed them 1-2 times per season.
It is important not to overdo it with nitrogen - with an excess of it, root crops become tasteless and poorly stored. If you are too lazy to sow turnips twice, I recommend simultaneously sowing early and mid-season turnip varieties at the same time at the end of May. Very good, for example, mid-season grade Petrovskaya-1. His root crops are sweet, perfectly stored. Just do not miss the landing site. The sun and loose soil are the main conditions for obtaining tasty root crops.
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With age, I had to give up trips to the dacha, but the desire for gardening remained.
Now I have retrained for home gardening: I grow flowers, onion, garlic, dill and turnips on the greens on the balcony.
Yes, turnip primarily interests me in the tops, as it contains a lot of calcium in an easy-to-digest form. Is it necessary to say how important it is for the elderly to strengthen bones! I prefer the precocious variety Geisha - it grows quickly and its leaves are soft, almost without pubescence, very tasty. First, I bring the boxes with the ground home and at the end of April I sow seeds in the warm earth. After a couple of days, I take out the boxes on the balcony. In case of sudden cold weather I wrap the boxes with foil. Shortly after emergence, I cut them with tweezers, leaving 2 cm between the plants. When the seedlings get stronger and release the 2nd real leaf, I thin out again. After that I feed with light infusion of chicken manure (I buy in a fertilizer store).
I keep the soil moist, but at the bottom of the boxes there is a layer of expanded clay, so the water does not stagnate. I begin to harvest in a month, plucking 1-2 leaves from each plant. Thanks to this, turnips have new leaves, so the fresh green season lasts for almost 2 months. By mid-July, I finally cleaned the turnip. By the way, root vegetables the size of a walnut still grow!
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Last year, I planted a turnip in the middle of May. Virtually no harvest. At first all the shoots were eaten by some pest, and those few plants; who survived, also failed. Some went into the shooter, the other root crops were empty. What did I do wrong?
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Crops of all cruciferous plants (cabbage, turnip, radish, radish) suffer from a number of pests. The most malicious and common - cruciferous flea. Therefore, immediately after emergence, pollinate the plants with ash and (or) treat them with insecticides.
The reasons for leaving turnip in the arrow may be several. Firstly, it is a heavy, clay cold soil. Secondly, too early sowing, especially in cold and dry years (such weather and stood all May and June). Dry and hot weather can also cause flowering turnips. Thirdly, the thickened sowings
can also cause an increase in the number of flowered plants. In the northern regions, flowering often causes too long daylight hours, so it makes sense to sow turnips in 2 periods: 1st - in late April - early May; 2nd - when daylight hours decline, in early or mid-July.
The reason for hollowness in turnip is often the introduction of fresh, untranslated manure and a lack of moisture in the soil. When planting in the 2 half of the summer, it is important to adjust the timing so that the root crops have time to form before the first frost, otherwise the turnip will be bitter and hollow.
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We sow turnips twice: for winter storage - in June, and to eat in summer - in early spring, as soon as strong night frosts stop and the beds completely thaw. Turnip seeds germinate already at a temperature of 3-5 °, and seedlings easily tolerate cooling and even snow suddenly fell. It is only better to cover the bed with lutrasil when returning winter, so that the tender shoots do not freeze into the ice.
We prepare a bed for spring sowing in the fall. It is important that radish, cabbage, radish, daikon and other cruciferous plants do not grow on it in the previous year or two. The best predecessors are cucumbers and tomatoes. We deeply dig a bed, we make on 1 sq. m in a bucket of humus, compost and a handful of complex mineral fertilizers. In the spring, we loosen the bed and abundantly fill the top layer with ash - this will reduce the acidity of the soil, enrich it with potassium and serve as protection against the cruciferous flea.
In the spring we sow varieties of early ripening. One of the earliest varieties we grow is Glasha. Root crops reach marketable size already in 40-45 days after emergence of seedlings. If you sow it at the end of April, then at the end of May you can already harvest, and occupy the vacant garden with other vegetables.
We very much like the variety Petrovskaya. The roots of this good old variety flattened, with yellow flesh, are ideal for extinguishing.
We also plant a white turnip Geisha. It tastes like radish, and also has a very delicate tops, which we add to salads.
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Modern life is a constant stress, which often negatively affects the sexual health of men.
But in the old days there were practically no problems with potency. Not the least role played food. In particular, the steamed turnip that was on every table. Today, followers of traditional medicine popular is a recipe based on turnip to increase potency. We need to take a few small cleaned turnips (300-400 g), cut them into pieces, pour the cow's milk and put them in the oven.
Tomit to readiness. When it has cooled down, add 150 ml of freshly squeezed carrot juice and 1 a. l. honey. Stir well. The resulting mixture is taken by 100 g twice a day for half an hour before meals. Such treatment should be continued until the problem disappears. In addition, I advise eating more spinach.
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Sotka of turnips
My grandfather told me that in the old days in the villages "rifles" of turnips were very valued. it
people who walked through the manors and helped the owners for a certain reward to plant a turnip, picking up seeds in their mouths and skillfully spitting them one by one into the soil. It is also interesting that the turnips were not planted earlier with beds, but with a hundred square meters. This was the second most valuable culture after potatoes.
Today, the profession of the "spittoon" is forgotten, and turnip itself. Cultivated by a few, and if grown, they often do not observe the agrotechnics of this culture. Then they wonder why she grew up dry and stiff. Such turnip becomes, if you do not comply with the irrigation regime.
Watering planting should be a little bit every other day, when the moisture evaporates less from the surface of the earth. If it is too late to harvest the harvest, juiciness and sweets from turnip should not be expected. Ideally, the root crop should not exceed 5-6 in diameter. The taste of the root can also deteriorate if you use chemicals in the process of growth, say, to fight with earthen fleas, which are so fond of tender turnip leaves.
The sweetness of turnip largely depends on the chosen variety. I usually sow Petrovskaya 1 and Geisha. The first love for juiciness and sweetness, and the second one can use for food and root, and delicate greens.
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Many modern summer residents and villagers know about such a vegetable as turnip only from the fairy tale "Repka".
Nevertheless, this same turnip is a storehouse of various nutrients. It has vitamins and provitamins, salts of potassium, calcium, sodium, phosphorus, trace elements ... And to grow this vegetable, as they say, is easier than steamed turnips. In my garden I grow it as a second crop after harvesting onions and winter garlic. I don’t chase varieties. I am quite happy with the mid-season old Russian variety Petrovskaya-1. which has been grown in the middle lane for over 60 years. Root crops of this variety are flat and rounded flat, weighing up to 300 g, with yellow flesh. And grow 60-70 days after sowing.
After harvesting onions at the end of the second decade of July, I immediately prepare the soil for sowing turnips. I bring in 1 m rows 40-50 g nitrofoski and 0.5 l wood ash. I dig a row of garden forks.
Seeds are sown every 7-10 cm into shallow (3-5 cm) grooves, the bottom of which is well shed with water and compacted with a wooden block. Aisles - 40 cm. I sprinkle the crops with a very thin layer of soil (0,5 cm). I install arches and cover with lutrasil. Under this shelter turnip grows to the formation of a root crop.
Against fleas, seedlings are dusted with a mixture of tobacco dust and ash. I pour from the watering can directly through the shelter. In the first days of October, before frosts, I harvest the roots.
Turnip eat and just sliced pieces, and make from it a delicious soup-puree.
Boiled soup with potatoes and cabbage
Boil in salted water separately turnip (2 pcs.). potatoes (4-6 pcs.), and cabbage (gram 300). We throw it back in a colander, after which the vegetables are pierced with a blender (or they can simply be rubbed with tolka for potatoes).
To get the desired consistency, add a little vegetable broth. Then we put in cream puree sour cream (100 g) and already in a plate - dried crackers dried from white bread (as much as you like). Salt to taste.
Nikolay PONKRATOV, a gardener with experience
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Turnip for early harvest must be sown under the winter. The plant is cold-resistant, so in spring it is not afraid of insufficiently warmed earth and nocturnal frosts.
Seeds that have been planted since autumn will determine when it's time to get through. Usually it takes place a week or two before the mass yield of cruciferous flea, which, as is known, is the main scourge of young turnips. By the time when the flea becomes particularly active, the shoots already have time to grow stronger and become nonspecifically interesting to the pest. And if the bed is additionally covered with non-woven material, the shoots will be reliably protected from fleas and from cold.
Varieties for sowing for winter are preferable early maturing: the Golden Globe, Snow White, May Yellow, the old proven Petrovskaya. The site needs to be thoroughly digged in the autumn and made according to 1 art. l. Ammonium nitrate and superphosphate at 1 sq. m. m. On the prepared bed cut the grooves and leave everything before the onset of frost.
The sowing should be done when the colds become stable (sometimes it happens only in December), otherwise the seeds can sprout and die in thaws. If snow fell, it should be truncated from the grooves, and the seeds should be sown quite densely and covered with a mixture of loose earth with sand and peat.
Be sure to sprinkle beds with turnip ashes, it will be both fertilizer and pest protection. Repeated dusting with ashes should be carried out as soon as the snow comes down, and after the appearance of the first shoots.
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The young tops of turnips and rutabaga, in spite of the old fairy tale about tops and roots, are edible and tasty. You can put it in fresh form in salads, along with any other leafy greens, you can send it to green soup, beetroot, botvy. But usually the leaves are badly damaged by pests and therefore not very attractive. But rabbits, goats. cows and other domestic living creatures appearance
feed does not bother at all, and they with great pleasure eat both the tops and root crops.
For growing on feed, it is better to pay attention to fodder varieties of trout, turnips, and kuusik. The plant can be fed to the animal fresh, it can be prepared for the winter, dried or in the form of silage. Root crops are perfectly preserved until spring, when cattle lack especially succulent fodder.
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To turn and turnips juicy and sweet, you need to follow the rules.
• The earth must be loose to a great depth, thoroughly dug up.
• Turnip is better at sandy soils, rutabaga - on loams. The rutabaga is planted in ridges or lateral bevels of ridges.
• Under no circumstances should you place fresh organic matter under the roots, especially manure! It is possible to bring in the autumn completely composted compost or planted in beds where fertilizers were introduced a year earlier. The best predecessors: cucumbers, zucchini, legumes. • Plants need space. When sowing the soil, the seeds are mixed with sand and ash. Sow a string method at a distance of 25-30 cm to the beds and one line in the furrow ridges. After spend 2 thinning. After 2 weeks in the bundle, 1-2 plants are left.
• A couple of days after planting, before emergence, the beds are powdered with a mixture of ash and lime from the cruciferous flea and the keel.
• Turnips and rutabaga love moisture. In the dry summer they must be watered abundantly and constantly loosen the land in the inter-row.
• Feeding with manure infusion is done twice: before 2 th thinning and when the leaves of adjacent rows begin to close. In the first feeding add boric acid (10 g per 10l), in the second - Ost salt. l. on 10l).
• For summer consumption, root vegetables are selected as medium. Late-ripening varieties and vegetables of the 2 th wave of sowing can be allowed to grow large and leave in the soil until frost.
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Turnip and rutabaga belong to the cruciferous family. Under normal conditions, the plants have an 2-year cycle of development: in 1-th year, a rosette of leaves and a fleshy root crop are formed, in 2-th from the root crop, leaves and flower sprouts again grow.
The flowers are medium-sized, they consist of four cross-shaped petals - hence the name of the family. By the end of summer, pods with fruits develop from flowers. Cruciferous plants are easily pollinated by any nearby cultural and wild relatives, therefore it is difficult to maintain varietal purity in summer cottages.
It happens that plants strive to bloom and in 1 th year of life. Most often provokes them
too long daylight hours. This happens when growing southern varieties in the north or when planting in late May and early June. Therefore, the sowing of early varieties of turnip and rutabaga is carried out in 2 terms: in April - early May - for summer use and in July - for winter storage.
But it is better to store late varieties for storage. They accumulate more sugars and dry substances, differ in good leavessness, taste better with heat treatment, practically do not bitter. They sow in the spring, sometimes right into the ground, sometimes in the dug-outs for seedlings.
Seedling method allows you to protect the tender shoots from the cruciferous flea, and the transfer of the trouser carries well.
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Historians have reliably established that turnip was cultivated for several millennia before our era. The wild ancestors of turnip are found in the regions of both the Mediterranean and the North Seas, so there were probably several centers for introducing it into the culture. 8 as a daily dish stewed turnip served to the table in ancient Greece, in ancient Rome, in German principalities, in Scandinavian villages. Turnip cultivation has also been cultivated since the spread of land cultivation in Eastern European lands.
Over the millennia of history, many varieties of turnips with a round, flat and elongated form of root crop, as well as unusual gray, violet, black and other varieties have been introduced. Far from all have reached the present day. However, in recent decades interest in turnip has increased, and now many new varieties have appeared.
More recently, by historical standards, only 200 years ago, rutabaga - one of the turnip hybrids with cabbage - came into use. At first it was called fodder or Swedish turnip. Rutabaga is very similar to turnips, but grows larger, better maintains nutritional value during storage, table varieties have a milder taste.
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The high content of starch in the products, of course, is important for the hard-working peasants, but now most of the townspeople are very interested in reducing the calorie content of their diet.
And then it's time to remember about the turnips and the trousers. In contrast to radishes, radishes, daikon, etc., they are suitable for heat treatment. The taste of boiled and stewed root vegetables, especially in vegetable stews and soups, practically does not differ from potatoes. In root crops, there is much more dietary fiber than in potatoes, which has a beneficial effect on digestion. At heat treatment, the mustard oil contained in the turnip and the trout is partially destroyed, hot dishes are obtained without bitterness and do not irritate the gastrointestinal tract.
The main thing is that because of the low carbohydrate content, turnips and swede can be included in the diet of patients with diabetes and obesity. The oldest turnip dish - steamed - is still heard by phraseologism "simpler than steamed turnip". And the Russian oven, in which this dish is cooked, will be successfully replaced by a slow cooker. If you want to cook something interesting, just open any cookbook: rutabaga soup, turnip spicy, stuffed ... The choice is huge!
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How not to indulge your beloved granddaughters with a sweet turnip! I grow it from spring to autumn. And if summer varieties are sometimes thrown out by arrows, then "winter" does not bring such unpleasant surprises.
In our village, from time immemorial, they have planted turnips for storage on Peter's Day - July 12. I do the same. I try different varieties each time, of the last I liked Orbit, Petrovskaya 1, Comet and the Moon. Turnip seeds are small, it is inconvenient to sow, so the seedlings are like a brush. So as soon as 1-2 seedlings appear in the seedlings, I immediately thin out them. But I do it in several steps. First, thin out so that the seedlings do not interfere with each other to grow, but at the same time stayed close enough and did not allow the weeds to germinate.
After a month I repeat the thinning, leaving 8-10 between the plants. See that they do not wilt and have time to recover, I do it later in the evening, I slightly water the soil.
By the way, turnip very fond of water. Because of a lack of moisture, its roots become rusty, become hard, so I plant the plant regularly. And also, so that the "winter" turnip grows better, at the beginning and at the end of August I feed it. For this, in 10 l of water, I dissolve 20 g of ammonium nitrate and 15 g of superphosphate and potassium chloride. I harvest harvest in the first decade of September.
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Let there always be a turnip!
In the old days, turnips were valued very highly. Today, it is almost squeezed out of our diet. It's a pity. Turnip is very useful, especially for children: it is used to prevent rickets, blood and bone diseases. Juice of freshly squeezed root vegetables with a small amount of sugar is an excellent remedy for scurvy and periodontal disease. Turnip promotes the assimilation of food, and also improves vision.
Of the many varieties of turnips, I prefer the Geisha variety. Root crops of this variety are smooth, rounded and very tasty. Turnip is unpretentious culture. It grows well in our harsh climate and gives good crops.
In addition to root crops, I also use turnip leaves (in Geisha they are very tender, since the variety refers to salad). Juice, prepared from leaves, perfectly strengthens teeth. It can be drunk both in pure form, and in a mixture with other juices.
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A young turnip appears on my table already in the first half of the summer. Her
You can boil, steam and even fry in vegetable oil. But my grandson prefers to gnaw it raw, like an apple. And no wonder - at this time there are still a few fresh vitamins, and they are necessary for the children's body.
To get an early crop of turnip, I've been preparing the beds since autumn. In October, at a depth of 40-50, I lay fresh manure. In the spring with the first heat, the land on the garden warms up faster. So by the middle of April you can start sowing.
First, disinfect the seeds in hot (50 °) water for 30 min. Immediately before planting, I make grooves with depth
2-3 cm and water them with hot water to add soil to heat. Seyu rows, not densely, at a distance of 25 cm in the aisles and 10 cm between future plants. Then I straighten the groove and compact the soil a little.
Caring for turnips is simple. After the first shoots appear, it is useful to powder them with wood ash. Garden pests dislike her very much. It is necessary to loosen the earth in the aisles and weed out weeds. After the May holidays, once a season, I spend watering with boron top dressing (in a bucket of water - 0,5 tsp. Boric acid dissolved in a glass of water).
To turn the turnip not bitter, the soil should not dry out. So regular watering is mandatory!
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In fairy tales, turnip is always called sweet. But the first attempts at growing turnips brought me disappointment: root crops to taste not far from the radish - bitter, with rough flesh. I had to admit that growing turnips requires knowledge.
Choose the right varieties: Many early ripening varieties of turnip {White night. Geisha, Snow White, Karelian) to taste like radish, they are a bit stinging. Neutral taste in varieties White ball, Snow Maiden, Moon. A pronounced sweet taste in old varieties Petrovskaya, in new varieties Granddaughter, Golden Ball.
Like all root crops, turnip does not tolerate manure, even partially rotted, - root crops will grow ugly, tasteless. It is better to add humus with the addition of ash.
shchka yes it is strong!
You can not plant a turnip on the beds, where before that other cruciferous (radish, cabbage) or root vegetables grew. But with the current joint plantings with cabbage, the taste of turnip improves.
Turnip prefers cool. The optimum temperature for growing turnips is 15-18 °. At higher temperatures, root crops quickly coarse. When the summer is hot, you should not do the second, July sowing.
Turnip is a water chowder. Water it often and plentifully, especially at the beginning of the formation of root crops.
Purge the crops. To form a large root, you need a place, so keep the distance between plants at least 10 cm. Also do not over-harvest in the ground.
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I remove the turnip from the garden in advance, before the onset of frost. Carefully dig out, cut off the central long root (somewhere on 1 / 3) and cut off the leaves at the base. Prepared in this way turnip stored longer. Still growing a radish. Here it can be left in the garden for a long time, it is not a little cold to it. The main thing is to not freeze. Usually a month before cleaning I loosen the radish from side to side right on the bed. So the roots are larger.
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Always allocate in the garden garden bed for turnips. In my family she is very fond of: put in salads or eat separately, watering with oil. Turnip planted on open or slightly shaded areas. Since autumn, I bring organic substances and a little wood ash to lower the acidity of the soil. Seeds are sown when warm weather is established. Sometimes I sow crops and in the beginning of summer. This turnip is not very dense. When 3-4 real leaves appear on the shoots, I thin the planting so that between the plants there was somewhere 5 cm. After a couple of weeks I repeat the procedure: I delete the diseased and poorly developed specimens, leaving 10 between the plants. I sprinkle the plantings with wood ash.
When turnips are actively growing and root crops are forming, I water them a couple of times a week. At first, for 1 square. I spend about 5 liters of water, subsequently - 3-4. Turnip does not need a large amount of fertilizer, so for the season I spend only one top dressing with horse manure.
I start harvesting when the diameter of root crops reaches 8-10 cm. If they are larger, they will become stiff. The "spring" turnip reaches the desired J size by mid-summer, and the one that planted in June is in the fall.
Dry the roots, I put them in the basement. There they can be stored for a long time.
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7 secrets of delicious turnips
It's a sin to complain to me, it always grows strong and delicious! And why? Yes, because I know that turnip likes.
Repa needs sunlight And space, otherwise root crops will grow small.
Due to lack of moisture, root crops have a bitter aftertaste. The first time after planting, the plant will need 8-10 liters of water per 1 sq. Km. m, and when it begins to ripen - up to 12 liters. In not too hot summers you can water 1-2 times a week.
Turnip needs complex fertilizers. After the emergence of shoots, the plant must be fed every 10 days. Take 10 g of potassium chloride, double superphosphate and ammonium nitrate on an 1 bucket of water. Organic fertilizers are needed only in autumn or spring for summer planting.
If there is no humus, it is worthwhile to fertilize with ashes. Manure needs to be used little by little so that root crops do not become fibrous from excess nitrogen.
When the shoots grow, you need to remove the weak, undeveloped plants, send them to the compost, and between the remaining, the strongest, leave the distance about 7-10, see.
To protect the turnip from cabbage fly, weevil, aphids, cruciferous fleas, it is necessary to pollinate the plant with a mixture of ash with tobacco dust (1: 1), mustard or pepper.
The harvest should be cleaned as soon as the turnip reaches a diameter of 3-4 cm, the overgrown root crop is not so delicious. To turn the turnip well, you must cut the tops of the root crops and put them in boxes, pouring a thin layer of sand (2-4 cm).