4 Review (s)

  1. Ekaterina ERMILOVA, Sverdlovsk Region

    The secret of juicy radish Juicy delicious radish on our table is not translated! I make vitamin salads from root vegetables. If someone from the house has caught a cold, I mix vegetable juice with honey and treat them for a cough. And that the radish grew tasty, rovnenkoj, never I bring at landing a fresh dung. You can add a little bit to the garden just well rebuffed.
    I feed twice a season with complex mineral fertilizer (I take it 2 times less than indicated in the instructions). I fertilize the first time during the formation of the 1th leaf, and the second time, when the root crop is formed.
    To radish grows better, pour on the garden humus. Sometimes I add ash to the water for irrigation (1 glass on 10 l). If it is too rare to water a radish, it can become flabby, blossom. I water when I see that the soil is dry, but always a little. From the abundance of moisture radish can crack.
    It is very important to remove roots from the bed in time. From the overgrowth and cold autumn rains, the taste of radish is greatly deteriorating. Summer varieties I pull out, when roots become approximately 5-6 cm in diameter. Winter radish I clean in late September and early October.

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    • Alexander Gorny, Cand. of sciences

      I would not advise you to bring salt under radish and daikon, it will not give them substantial help, but salting the soil and damaging its microflora can, especially in such a dose. From pests, these cultures are better simply to cover with a thin spunbond, and as a top dressing to use potassium chloride. By the way, it will be better absorbed by plants in a liquid form - 30 g per bucket of water.

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  2. Tatyana MAKSIMONKO, Voronezh

    I really love radishes and try to extend its season as long as possible. But in summer and autumn, radishes often work out poorly: they strive to go in the arrow or give more tops than root crops. Therefore, I was very glad when I discovered the green Chinese radish - forehead. We often call it Margelan, although this is only one of the varieties.
    Loba, unlike the usual black and white radish, has a rather mild taste without excessive bitterness. The roots of her grow in weight 300, or even 600 g. The form, depending on the variety, can be different:
    • rounded at varieties Margelanskaya and Troyanda (adapted for the conditions of Ukraine);
    • elongated-cylindrical in the Lz-Bidka (also of the Ukrainian variety) and Fang of the elephant;
    • long-rod - in Chinese varieties.
    Seiya forehead in small portions since the middle of July, when the light day noticeably decreases. I sow a little every week, until mid-August. I take a place that is released from early peas, green onions, winter garlic. You can not plant radish after radish, leaf and early cabbage, since they belong to the same family of cruciferous. I carefully dig the beds, because root crops require a loose ground for growth. Of fertilizers, I only add a little nitroammophosques (2 tbsp per 1 sq. M.).
    Since during the sowing of the forehead the cruciferous flea is no longer very active, shoots slightly pollinated with ashes. In the drought occasionally watered, trying to deeply soak the earth. But usually in August, rains begin, and watering is not required. The radish of the 1 seed is maturing by mid-August.

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  3. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    I love black winter radish salad, but I do not like to peel it off. And then I found out about summer varieties of radish. You practically do not need to clean them - you washed them, scraped them off with a knife and you're done! Though her salad, at least chew slices.
    Now always in late April - early May I sow summer radish. I plant 2 species - early ripe, which can be eaten in a month, and mid-ripening - I begin to selectively pull it out after 1,5 months. I never sow summer radish around the perimeter of the beds, because she needs a lot of moisture for juiciness. From the slopes, the water immediately runs off to the paths, and the radish, as they say, only "flowed over the mustache." She does not have time to get enough moisture.
    In order not to thin out the young shoots and not damage their fragile root system, I sow rare radishes right away - about 25 cm from each other. And I also try to use these root vegetables for food as often as possible, because after harvesting even in the refrigerator they are not stored for longer than a week and a half. For the same reason, I don’t plant radish with “plantations,” a rather small bed.
    Marina GLADKIH, town of Sosnovka

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