At any time of the year gardeners and gardeners are not asleep and do what they love, no matter how hard it takes.
That's just not every season has to grow plants, because, in addition to the warm summer, there are more unfavorable times for this activity. Bring with the weather can even spring, especially early. How to plant radishes in a greenhouse in early spring?
Early sowing of radish is a simple thing, but it requires patience and diligence. Usually early sowing begins in the first months of spring.
Can I start planting radishes in March?
Basically, Early sowing of radish can now be started even in winter if you know how to do it right. However, the most common month of early radish planting is March, in particular, its beginning. Despite the thermophilicity of this culture, with proper care, it will rise by May.
How to choose a grade and why?
Not every radish is suitable for planting in early spring. Among all varieties should choose the so-called early varieties. These varieties of radish have greater resistance to cold, easier tolerance of some severities of spring weather, resistance to stress and other qualities that are sure to help when planting in the cold season. Among these varieties can be called.
Greenhouse
This variety of radish is optimal for growing in early spring. in central Russia. It is resistant to bolting, hence germination will be much more.
Dawn
Radish "Dawn" refers to stress-resistant varieties. It also differs in precocity - usually this radish ripens in just thirty days. The root crop begins to form at a temperature of between twelve and fourteen degrees Celsius. In addition, he has a taste advantage: he has almost no bitterness.
Heat
One of the rather popular varieties. It is steady against tsvetushnosti, has high commodity qualities. Disease resistance and good taste guaranteed this radish popularity on the shelves. Due to its speeding, you can get several harvests per season. In addition, "Heat" is suitable not only for spring sowing, but also for the podzimny. This variety is ideal for early forcing.
Sachs
Again speedy variety. From sowing seeds to harvest usually takes less than a month. Radish "Sachs" very unpretentious. Resistant to tsvetushnosti. It tolerates drought and low temperatures. It has a refined sweet-spicy taste, thanks to which it is often used fresh in cooking.
Early red
The “early red” variety of radish was bred specifically for growing in winter greenhouses, so he will not complain about low temperatures, although it will grow well in the heat under the conditions of a long day. It has high germination of seeds, relative resistance to disease and stalk.
Where can I buy seeds?
Radish seeds - inexpensive pleasure. You can buy them in almost any hypermarket or in specialized gardening shops.
- In Moscow, for example, you can buy seeds in the well-known network of Auchan hypermarkets, at the Bejo seed shop (for example, near the Kolomenskaya metro station) or at Semko Junior on Riga Passage.
- In St. Petersburg, this is all the same "Auchan", "Variety Semovosch" or "House of Seeds".
- In absolutely any city you can buy radish seeds in online stores.
Prices for radish seeds vary widely - from four rubles for popular and common varieties to ninety for novelties and rarities. Also, the price strongly depends on the supplier and the store itself.
Seed preparation for sowing
A special role in the cultivation of radish is the preparation of seeds. Properly prepared for planting seeds will have greater germination, hence the harvest will be greater.
To get a good crop of radish, seeds are usually sifted or sieved through a two-millimeter sieve. Only large, selective seeds are allowed for sowing. The fact is that good and friendly shoots of radish give only full-fledged, large seeds of about three millimeters in diameter and more. Smaller or older seeds form a lot of flowering and have low germination. Selective seeds are pre-held in a damp cloth to make them slip.
To protect against dry rot and better germination, seeds are heated in hot water at a temperature of about forty-five degrees Celsius for fifteen to twenty minutes. It is also helpful to treat the seeds with potassium permanganate. This will reduce the likelihood of illness.
How to sow?
When the seeds are ready, you can begin sowing:
A week or two before planting it is worth putting in order a greenhouse in which it is planned to plant radishes:- clean off the snow;
- repair if necessary;
- pull the film.
This will help the soil to thaw faster. You can start planting when the top three to five centimeters of soil become soft. Sowing is done manually.
- Radishes are sown dry in a moist soil. Soil for the soil must be neutral. Radish starts to ache in acidic soil.
- It is important to observe the distance. Between seeds, it should be about one to two centimeters, between rows - somewhere between six and eight centimeters. It is impossible to sow radish thicker than the specified distance, as this may lead to early planting of plants. The more evenly the seeds are located, the less time you will have to devote to thinning.
- The embedding depth should not exceed one centimeter.
A week or two before planting it is worth putting in order a greenhouse in which it is planned to plant radishes:How to grow?
For vegetables such as radishes, an optimal temperature and humidity regime is required. At the time of germination, the temperature should be between sixteen and eighteen degrees Celsius, but with the emergence of mass shoots, the temperature should be lowered to six to eight degrees Celsius. This will prevent the emergence of seedlings. At this temperature, the sprouts hold for three to four days, after which the optimum temperature for radish becomes fifteen to twenty degrees Celsius during the day and from eight to ten degrees Celsius at night.
For radish, freezing is not dangerous if the temperature does not fall below minus five degrees Celsius.
If the shoots are too thick, they must be thinned. In crowded and shading, the root crop will not grow and will remain small.
Watering of radish is carried out as the soil dries out, usually once every two or three days, although it will be necessary to water in the heat every day. Spill ten to fifteen centimeters in depth.
Radish is extremely sensitive to the regularity of watering. If you don’t water it for a long time, it will dry out and become rude, and if you immediately pour water over it, then the root crop will crack. When watering is one or two times to enter nitrogen fertilizer at the rate of twenty to thirty grams per square meter. The space between the rows should be weeded and loosened as necessary.
After watering the greenhouse should be well ventilated. Due to excessive air humidity radish can get a black leg.
Possible difficulties
Of course planting radishes in the greenhouse in early spring, it is impossible not to face any difficulties and nuances. For example, what to do if there is no heating in the greenhouse, and there is still severe cold outside? Unfortunately, in this case, you will have to wait patiently until the ground warms up. Otherwise there is a risk of losing the entire crop.
However, in greenhouses made of polycarbonate will not have to wait. Even in the cold you can grow a wonderful radish. You only need to moisten the soil with warm water, regularly spud and apply the necessary fertilizers.
Radish - a source of vitamins needed by the human body. Besides, it's just a very tasty root vegetable. Growing it in a greenhouse will allow you to enjoy it at any time of the year: at least in the hot summer, at least in the cold winter.
