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GROWING TURP - VARIETIES, PLANTING AND CARE

There are vegetables that should be sown in the second half of the season and harvested in the fall. And just then it will be perfect - juicy vitamin and tasty. Such is the turnip, which has many varieties and forms, sometimes known to gardeners only by hearsay.

TURP IN THE AFTER HALF OF SUMMER

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I never had enough space for turnips in the spring, I had to sow it on the remaining "objects" last. The result was sad - the harvest did not please with the quality, until the idea came to transfer the cultivation to the second half of the summer - on a waning day, because the long one provokes the rapid stalking of plants. So I found out that the best time for sowing turnips is from St. Peter's Day (July 12) until early August. The ridges were just being freed from winter garlic and early greenery.

By re-sowing, it turned out to kill two birds with one stone: to prevent the empty land from overgrowing and to meet autumn with a new harvest.

And how! After all, why are root crops of the second half of the season much better than during spring sowing? The rest of the summer and almost half of autumn, plants accumulate a lot of useful substances. Due to the moderate sun and more rainfall, they are juicier and more tender and, moreover, are less damaged by insects.

Although from cruciferous fleas I still use ash and tobacco dust. In addition, you can freely experiment with different varieties.

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TURP - EUROPEAN AND JAPANESE VARIETIES

I plant turnips with a variety of root colors - both classic and "avant-garde". And all are good in their own way!

The old Petrovskaya 1 with yellow dense pulp is still popular, although today Golden Ball, Luna, Golden Ball, etc. have been added to it. The varieties with pink and light purple skin of root crops are interesting for their unusual color: Milanese pink, Vnuchka, Purple with a white tip, Comet. But our family especially liked the varieties in the milk range White Night, Orbita, Snow White, Snow Globe due to their tender pulp and low content of mustard oil.

In addition to the turnip of the European type, the most common in our latitudes, lettuce, bred in Japan as a result of crossing the Far Eastern and European, has taken root in my beds. Her root crops are juicy and sweet, without the characteristic rare taste inherent in European varieties, and the leaves are more tender. The main feature of salad varieties is that the whole plants are edible - both the leaves and the root crop.

Very good varieties from the group kabu (more about it at the link) with root crops reaching 12-20 cm in diameter, in the Snow Maiden they are white, in the F1 hybrid Red Sun - pink crimson.

У cocabu varieties smaller root crops (the prefix ko just indicates a small size): Geisha has a diameter of 4-5 cm, Kanamachi has a diameter of 8 cm. Both varieties are white.

A variety of lettuce turnip - cabuna. It is purely leafy and does not form a root crop at all. The best varieties are Sapphire, Tokyo, Selecta, Turquoise, Komatsuna. They eat only leaves (in fresh salads and on sandwiches), which are characterized by a high content of ascorbic acid, beta-carotene and calcium. I recommend it to grow lovers of fresh herbs.

Such an appetizer strengthens bones, has a beneficial effect on the liver and circulatory system.

How to plant turnips in open ground with seeds when planting

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WHAT FEEDINGS DO RIPES NEED?

The optimum temperature for the formation and development of root crops is 15-20°. A good harvest can only be obtained on fertile neutral light loams and sandy loams. On acidic soils, turnips are affected by clubroot, in which case liming is necessary. So that the root crops do not turn out ugly, you can not fertilize the ridges with fresh manure - for digging I only bring in humus or rotted compost.

It is convenient to sow turnips in rows with a distance of 30-35 cm between them, deepening the seeds by about 0 cm. Since they are small, I mix them with sand for even distribution. Shoots with two real leaves must be thinned out at a distance of 5 cm from each other. With the beginning of the formation of the root crop (after about 3-2 weeks), a second thinning is required, already at a distance of 3-7 cm.

On poor soils, in order to obtain larger root crops, crops must be fed 1-2 times with mineral fertilizers. Turnip does not react well to chlorine in the soil, so potassium chloride should not be applied. Top dressing with microelements (1 - 2 per season) increase resistance to diseases, increase sugar content and vitamin content in root crops. Repeboric fertilizers are especially useful.

In hot, dry weather, plantings should be watered regularly and moderately. With a lack of moisture, root crops grow bitter, but too abundant uneven watering leads to their cracking. I regularly cut off yellowed leaves to improve the illumination of plants.

Root crops ripen in 40-50 days, and wild boar leaves - in 25-30 days. If you are late, both become hard and stringy. Because of its uneven readiness, I harvest selectively, not at once. The beds should be completely vacated in September - early October, before the onset of frost.

Root crops with a diameter of about 5 cm are the most juicy and tasty, overgrown specimens often turn out to be wadded. A young crispy turnip just from the garden goes with a bang in its raw form, I also add it all autumn to vegetable stews, enriching their taste. And I put the leaves in soups instead of cabbage.

I dry the turnips selected for storage, cut off the tops and lay them in layers in buckets, sprinkled with sand. So it can lie in the basement at a temperature of 2-3 ° until the New Year.

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