Harvest radishes at home. How to grow root vegetables in an apartment?

Everyone who prefers vegetables, thinks about his garden on the loggia. After all, it is great to have a crop year round, but growing radishes requires certain rules. Following some instructions, you can find the first fruits in about a month.

Did you know. In a salad, radishes quickly react with oxygen, while losing half of the nutrients. The best option is to eat them in their entirety.

Is it possible to plant a radish at home?

The answer is yes. Subject to certain rules:

1. True lighting.
2. Maintain the required temperature.
3. High fertility soil.
4. Ideal humidity of air and soil.

Growing Features

• Radish also grows at lower temperatures, which is why the home atmosphere is perfect for growing it. It will be cozy to the plant at a temperature of +20 ° C.

  To remove excess bitterness, it is necessary to water the radish more often during ripening.

  At higher temperatures, the vegetable becomes tasteless and lethargic, the plant itself lengthens and takes on an irregular shape.

• A more suitable time to start planting a root crop for growing a house is winter. To ripen it, you need very little time, perhaps even harvest twice.
• The quality of the radish is affected by the duration of daylight hours. It is necessary to highlight it for 10-12 hours, so the root crop will become large and juicy.

Differences from cultivation in the greenhouse and on the street

• Fruits grown at home or in greenhouse conditions are distinguished by a shortened growing season and their high productivity.
• Plants in closed soil are much less likely to be damaged by pests. And an important factor is that the cultivation process can be made uninterrupted, picking fruits all year round than on the street.

Landing time

Plant root crops, possibly at any time of the year. April 13-15 is the best time to plant in the room. And about two days after the emergence of the seedlings, it is necessary to send them to the closed balcony.

Germinate seeds must be on a damp cloth or on a paper handkerchief without flooding.

The best varieties

Carefully approach the choice of the root variety. Choose should be more resistant to lack of lighting and drought. Consider the most appropriate in the table:

Choosing a place in the apartment

Before emergence, it is better to put the boxes on the windowsill at room temperature. When the first leaflet appears, it is worth moving to a room with a temperate climate + 18 + 20 ° C.

In the cold season, it is better not to put it on the windowsill, there, from working batteries, the soil will constantly dry up, leading to elongation of seedlings, and as a result you will get a hollow and sluggish radish. So that in winter, it is best to place containers with radishes on the insulated balconybut not heated. And adjust the temperature with lighting using fluorescent lamps and heaters.

Step-by-step instructions for growing root crops

In order for the radish to rise well and go quickly, you will need the right choice of soil and capacity. And in the future, correct care for the root crop, while maintaining the necessary microclimate.

Seed treatment

1. Seeds must be sorted. If they have a stale look and have a brown tint, then they are old and need to get rid of them.You can check them by lowering them into the water - suitable ones will remain at the bottom, and empty ones will emerge.
2. Next, soak the seeds a day before the intended planting in cold water.
3. We place it in a liquid with the addition of potassium permanganate for 2-3 hours and immediately plant it.

Preparatory work

Required Inventory

• Soaking vessel.
• Wooden stick for diving.
• Vessel for planting seeds.
• Crushed stone, broken brick or expanded clay.
• Priming.
• Water.
• Seeds
• Potassium permanganate.

Capacity preparation

Egg cartridges are the most affordable and hygienic way:

1. Wipe the cells from under the eggs with alcohol.
2. Trim the bottom to form a hole.
3. In a container of plastic with holes, we place drainage and a moistened substrate.
4. Press cells into the ground.
5. Dip a seed in each slot, sprinkle sand on top and water.
6. Before the seed shoots, set in a warm place, and create a greenhouse effect, and then do the hardening of the plant.

How to plant?

1. Shake the prepared soil in a container and compact the soil.
2. We make small hollows in the ground, 1.5 cm deep. If the cells are not separated, then the distance between them should be at least 11 cm.
3. Add a little warm water to the recesses.
4. Place the seeds in the hollows and bury. After that, water a little.
5. We cover seedlings with a plastic film. After the appearance of the first shoots, remove.

The first care of a young plant

Care consists of:

• weeding;
• watering;
• thinning;
• loosening;
• pest control.

1. Overmoistening is not allowed, watering should be done as the soil dries and it must be done with warm water in the evening. So, seedlings better tolerate night frosts. After two weeks, you can water with plain water.
2. It is worth feeding with infusions of sage, rosemary herbs or ash solution. So the plant will be protected from fungal diseases, snails and slugs.
3. Care will be easier if you mulch the beds with peat, compost or small cut grass. So, the moisture will last longer, it will not be necessary to water often, it will relieve the weed and loosen it less often.

Common mistakes

1. Seeds are incorrectly picked. Not all varieties can take root at home.
2. The soil is improperly prepared for planting. It is better to get soil in a specialized store.
3. Wrong place for seedlings. You need to provide a sufficient amount of light.
4. Radishes should not be distributed close to each other and too deep.

Diseases and Pests

A radish disease completely precludes a quick ripening period. Incorrect care and the presence of viruses in the soil can contribute to the development of diseases.

• White rust. The stems and leaves are covered with a white oily coating, and gradually become brown and die.
• Kila. The roots of the plant are affected by growths, slowly leading to decay and death of the root crop.
• Mosaic. Destroys radish crops in the vicinity of ornamental plants.
• Powdery Mildew There is a white coating on the leaves.

It is quite easy to grow radishes at home at any time of the year. The main thing is to choose the temperature regime and the optimal place. Do not forget about watering and harvest in time. Follow the recommendations and the result will not be long in coming.

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