What beet likes and dislikes. How to fertilize. disease

Beetroot - a favorite vegetable among many farmers. In this case, use a food not only roots, but also tops, from which it is possible to cook soup and make the filling for pies.

Also beet it is used as a therapeutic agent for anemia, intestinal disease, raw vegetable juice rinse sore throat.

Features of culture. The feed

Beet loves light and fertile soil, especially potassium rich. But on clay lands it will grow if the soil is cultivated and well dug. Excess organic beet dislikes, nitrogen in the soil should be moderate, and nitrogen fertilizers to make a better fertilizing to form root.

When planting root crops is very desirable making natural fertilizer - ash. Other fertilizers can be used potassium sulfate. Of organic beetroot loves humus and compost. As a dressing, you can use the infusion of mullein, or green manure.

Beet need abundant watering. At 1 m must pour 10-15 liters of water. Recommended planting mulch to retain moisture.

Due to lack of boron in the soil beet rotting from the inside (where the core), poorly developed root. Therefore, the plant responds well to foliage spraying boric acid solution (half a teaspoon of 10 liters of water). As a result, beet will vary with quality products, increased sugar content and keeping quality.

disease

cercosporosis

It appears in the form of brown specks and rounded with red-brown edged with white dot in the center on the tops. The disease is a fungal infection. It appears in poor air circulation, poor drainage, high humidity and condensed with crops.

The spores overwinter on dead plant debris left after harvesting. By late spring the fungus actively beginning to spread.

Shortage of crop from the disease can be as high as 70 percent. Root crops are obtained twisted, small, skukozhennymi.

As preventive measures to protect the culture should be planted on the sunny areas to dig deep soil in autumn, to comply with crop rotation, do not make fresh manure, use of resistant varieties to cercosporosis.

Against the disease is actively fighting Bacillus subtilis as a drug "fitosporin". Chemical means better not to use, or use not later phase of closing of rows topper, when the first signs of the disease. This Bordeaux mixture (1 gram per 10 liters of water) and HOM, thiophene.

Please note that the roots have the ability to accumulate heavy metals in itself, after the application of pesticides.

Scab

It is the formation of nodules on korneklubnyah. Scab is divided into ordinary and wrinkled. It strikes inside the root, which is black, and it is poorly kept. Guard against this bacterial disease can help the same biological drug "fitosporin" and "Trihodermin". Prophylactic treatment of these funds will protect your landing against infection.

Crop rotation

As a precaution, return to the place of sugar beet cultivation should take place no earlier than 3 years, you need to follow the rotation. The best precursors for this culture - onions, cabbage, cucumbers and potatoes.

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