BUSINESS IS GOOD AND SUCCESSFUL

For some, horseradish is a weed that they struggle with painfully for almost the entire season, and for someone it is a source of income. If you handle it correctly, it will only please and benefit your health and wallet.

My small business is growing horseradish for sale: both roots and leaves in spice sets for canning, and ready-made snacks - grated vegetables in jars.

I’ll make a reservation right away, everything is the old fashioned way for me - manual labor, the local population of horseradish, only organic fertilizers, timely watering. This is important for the quality and flavor of the roots. I tried to grow katran, but the taste is still not the same. If you simultaneously offer to try the preparation of horseradish and katran, everyone invariably prefers horseradish. Without any additives, it goes well with jelly, aspic, hot smoked meats, boiled meat and fish.

horseradish plantation

Horseradish is a perennial with a powerful tap root. It is propagated mainly by root cuttings, it is faster and more convenient. It seems that the process is known to everyone, but there are subtleties, without which many cannot get a full-fledged harvest.

The place for the plant is chosen both sunny and in partial shade. In my experience, partial shade is better, so I took a strip of land along the fence and a row of fruit trees for horseradish. It is separate, outside the crop rotation, so that horseradish does not clog the useful garden area with rhizomes, which are then difficult to get rid of.

Fertile light loamy soils with a reaction close to neutral are considered the best for it. Heavy clay and swampy lands are unsuitable. I have a medium loam, well-manured before planting and dug up for 2 bayonets of a shovel.

The sharp taste of horseradish is due to the presence of synegrin glycoside. Thanks to sulfur-containing essential oils, horseradish has healing properties: it stimulates appetite, improves digestion of food, and activates blood circulation.

HORSERADISH PLANTING

In autumn, while digging up rhizomes for sale, I prepare planting material - segments of annual roots 15-20 cm long and 1-1,5 cm in diameter. them upon landing. I dry the roots a little in the shade and store until spring in two le, a cellar in wet sand or moss.

Immediately before planting, I take the cuttings out of storage, sort them out and wipe them with a hard burlap to remove excess buds. They are left only at the ends.

I plant horseradish on a flat surface, although it is possible on ridges, I cut furrows about 25 cm deep at a distance of 60 cm from each other. I lay the roots in them obliquely, at an angle of 30-45 °, after 25-30 cm. The top should be covered with soil by 3-4 cm. I compact the earth a little from above.

Leaves and pieces of roots are used as bactericidal pads for short-term storage of various products, for example, on a hike.

---

See also: Alternative horseradish - katran (photo) planting and care

---

HORSERADISH: LEAVING

When the first leaves grow, I feed the plants with mullein infusion, then I do it every month. Watering - as needed, with a lack of moisture, the yield decreases.

Peduncles should be cut off immediately after their appearance, so as not to deplete the plants. True, they do not always appear. In the second half of summer, I rake the earth a little from the roots and remove numerous lateral roots from the upper part, and then I fall asleep it back. This is necessary in order to grow thick, high-quality roots. J After this operation ; The plantation must be watered.

COLLECTION

Horseradish can be harvested in the year of planting, in late autumn, or in the second year of life, also in autumn. In the latter case, the harvest is much higher, and the costs are less: horseradish can not be dug all at once, but as needed, which I do, since demand appears in August. I immediately cut off the leaves, wipe the roots with burlap and transfer to a cool place for storage.

After a complete cleaning, you have to dig the site again and carefully select all the remaining roots and their trimmings so as not to clog the site.

Long-term cultivation of horseradish in one place is unjustified: the yield is rapidly decreasing, the roots become smaller, lose their smoothness and shape.

There is an opinion that horseradish does not bloom, and, accordingly, does not produce seeds, but this is not so. If it is not dug up for 2-3 years and the leaves are not plucked, a peduncle appears, and in autumn - small greenish-brown balls of seeds. But it is troublesome and time-consuming to propagate them, and a full-fledged crop is harvested only in the third year.

LANDING HORSERADISH - A SIMPLE AND RELIABLE METHOD ON VIDEO

REALIZATION - HORSERADISH FOR SALE

Bundle goods. Horseradish for sale should be fresh, elastic and attractive in appearance, without lignified areas. Uniform, undivided roots 20-30 cm long are preferred. However, of course, you can’t do without small defects, cracks and tears in the skin, here is the question of their selling price.

I tie the roots in neat bundles of 5 pieces.

Seasoning jars. For preparations, I grind horseradish on a grater (large or medium) or pass it through a Soviet meat grinder. I tried to use a blender, but the roots are hard, and it is difficult to get a homogeneous product, and this is important.

I put the grated horseradish into hot sterilized jars with a capacity of 200-250 ml and close it with boiled lids. It can be stored in the refrigerator or cellar for a year.

I sell horseradish in my own juice, I have many regular customers, the demand for it does not decrease. But just in case, I always take with me printouts of recipes for delicious horseradish-based sauces, the so-called horseradish.

Canning kit. It includes large horseradish leaves from the middle part of the plant, half-ripened dill umbrellas, healthy blackcurrant and cherry leaves. All 10 pieces, as well as 3-5 young garlic bulbs.

From one hundred square meters of plantation every autumn I help out up to 70000 rubles. After deducting the cost of packaging (jars and transparent packaging for flowers), a good increase in pension is obtained.

SPICY TOMATO SAUCE WITH HORSERADISE

Pass through a meat grinder 2 kg of ripe red tomatoes, peeled, 250 g of horseradish roots, 150 g of garlic cloves, salt to taste. Arrange in sterilized jars and close with boiled lids. Store in a cool place.

---

Reference by topic: Propagation of horseradish by rhizomes and how to prevent it from growing (Krasnodar)

---

© Author: P. SAVLUKOV Smolensk

ORDER QUALITY AND CHEAP SEEDS AND OTHER PRODUCTS FOR HOME AND COTTAGE. PRICES ARE BOTTLE. CHECKED! JUST LOOK FOR YOURSELF AND BE AMAZED. THERE ARE REVIEWS. GO >>>

Below other entries on the topic "Dacha and garden - with their own hands"

---

Subscribe to updates in our groups and share.

Let's be friends!