How to grow the earliest beets (Novosibirsk region)
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ULTRA-EARLY BEET - VIA SEEDLING
During the long winter you have time to miss fresh greens and vegetables.
How to get young beet roots as early as possible?
Last season, spring in Siberia was very late, protracted. It was possible to sow beets into the ground only in early June. And in the greenhouse, she was ready for June 25 cleaning. Very significant gain in time!
So, how to get an early harvest of beets?
Through seedlings. In mid-March or early April, I sow beets in 200-gram cups - no more than 2 seeds per cup. For sowing, I choose the early Detroit variety and the F1 Action hybrid.
The soil is needed loose, light, non-acidic. Acidity is a very important parameter for beets. The optimum pH range is 6,5-7. I take as a basis the soil from packages with the appropriate value and add coconut, vermiculite, vermicompost (6: 1: 1: 0,5). This improves the looseness of the soil and its composition. Glasses with good drainage holes are half filled with soil. I compact a little and water it with a solution of Fitosporin.
I make indentations on 0,5 cm, spread the seeds and fill them up to the level of the soil with a layer of vermiculite or calcined sand.
I moisturize, cover the cups with film or sand and hold at 22-23 °. As soon as shoots begin to appear, I transfer to a cool place (temperature 16-18 °) for 7-10 days. Of the shoots that appeared, I leave only one of the strongest.
In the initial period, beets are very important light. The first 3-4 days I highlight the plants around the clock with Flora lamps - they do not heat up, which allows them to be placed directly above the seedlings. After the fourth day, daylight hours last 13-14 hours. The temperature can be raised to 20 °, and when the plants grow up to 23-24 °. So you can get high-quality seedlings.
Young beet seedlings are prone to black-leg disease, so care should be taken to ensure that the watering is not excessive, the shoots are well lit and ventilated.
In the process of growing seedlings a little stretched.
I add plants to the cotyledon leaves with high-quality primer or vermiculite. If the earthen mixture for planting was of high quality, then I feed the seedlings of the entire 1 once with a weak solution of complex fertilizer (after 3 weeks from the appearance of seedlings).
Beet seedlings easily tolerate transplantation and quickly take root in a new place. Planting seedlings in a greenhouse since mid-May, if the soil is warm enough. You can do this at the same time as transplanting tomato seedlings to a permanent place. There will be enough space in the beets between the bushes.
These cultures do not interfere with each other at all. And the efficiency of use of the greenhouse area is significantly increased. By the time the tomatoes have risen and begin to shade the beet plants, I am already harvesting it.
GROWING EARLY BEET - PLANTING AND CARE, ADVICE AND FEEDBACK
EARLY BEET - SOW IN JULY, REAP IN OCTOBER
Early or mid-ripening beets are sown not only in May, but also in June and July. And perfectly catches up with its weight and size to cold weather. This is my experience. Once I did not have time to sow in time, I had to postpone until July. And in October I had a great harvest.
It kept all winter.
When I started gardening, I sowed only Bordeaux and Cylinder varieties. The plot was huge, these two varieties just grow huge. Bordeaux is sometimes round, sometimes flat-round, maroon, and sometimes reaches 700-900 g in weight. The cylinder is long, maroon, the weight also exceeds 600 g. These are tasty and juicy root crops, perfectly stored in winter.
But how to deal with these dimensions? And in the kitchen out, and in storage. I stopped sowing when new varieties appeared.
PABLO PUSHED THE CYLINDER
In the 90s, when all the borders were opened, a friend gave me the seeds of the Dutch hybrid Pablo F1. Sowed. Shoots turned out friendly. Grow, grow, but never grow. After all, beetroot leaves usually look like burdock, but here some kind of small fry.
I called a friend: “Something beets are not growing well. Leaves are small. He advised to dig up the plant. Dug up. The root crop is burgundy with a reddish tint, round, weighing about 100 grams. Cooked. Sweet! Dark red in cut. Surprisingly - all the root-fruits are like a selection, of the same size. I fell in love with this hybrid. Keeps well in winter.
I have tried dozens of varieties. I will note two.
Detroit has a rounded shape, smooth skin, burgundy flesh, juicy and uniform in texture.
If almost all varieties of beets are afraid of return frosts, then Mulatto tolerates them perfectly. Root crops of the correct round shape, maroon color, the pulp is sweet and juicy.
GIVE THE BEET POTASSIUM
Not everyone knows that beets are a big lover of potassium. So, at the first symptoms of its lack (yellowing, drying out and death of the leaves), potassium top dressing is recommended. For example, shed a garden bed with a solution of potassium chloride - 30-40 g per 10 liters of water. Beetroot loves good hydration.
Beets are usually thinned into beam products. I sometimes thin out, sometimes I don't. She will still, though crowded, but she will grow perfectly.
HER WHAT'S IN THE CENTER, WHAT'S FROM THE EDGE
I tried to sow beets, as advised - along the edges of different beds. They say that it grows better in the neighborhood with other crops. But for me it grows in the same way, both in a separate bed, and along the edges of other cultures. I plant half the beds with flowers, the floor - beds with beets
© Author: Sakina Aitmukhametova
See also: Beetroot (not to thin)
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Beet root crops grew with white veins, and on the bag with seeds it was indicated that the vegetables should all be saturated burgundy. What happened
Ekaterina Ruzhanova, Smorgon
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- This happens if root crops do not have enough potassium, with an excess of nitrogen and scarce watering.
To prevent this from happening in the future, as soon as the shoots appear, water the beet beds at the rate of 10 l of water per 1 sq.m of plantings once a week. After a month, double the volume of the poured liquid. Stop 15 days before harvesting.
In the phase of the five true leaves, feed the beets with a solution of boric acid (5 g per 10 l of water per 1 sq. Beds). And after two weeks, pour the infusion of mullein (1: 10) at the rate of 10 l fertilizer on 3-4 linear meters of landings. During the formation of root crops, dilute in a bucket of water of 10 g potassium sulfate and water-soluble superphosphate, water the bed at the rate of 150-200 ml of composition for each plant. A week after top dressing, empty the ground with wood ash (150 g per 1 sq.m).
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Last year, the beets grew shallow, with a large number of small roots. What could be the reason?
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Most varieties of seeds (glomeruli) contain from 2 to 7 single-seeded fruitlets. Germinating, each of them gives life to a new plant. The “extras” have to be transplanted (beet, unlike carrots, survives well after transplantation and gives an excellent harvest).
In your case, the reason for getting ugly root crops, most likely, was a sloppy picking of seedlings. Severe damage to the root root or planting seedlings with a "twisted" root leads to the formation of deformed root crops covered with many small roots. Perhaps the breakthrough was carried out too late: when the plants form several real leaves, it is impossible to transplant them without damaging the main root. You can completely get rid of the breakthrough by planting beets of the Odno– Rostov variety. However, it is inferior in taste to most varieties of beetroot seedlings.
I. Shabalina, agronomist