We grow daikon. Storage and laid before winter

Daikon - a radish, only the Japanese, which means "big root". This culture was less plant gardeners, and it is not as common as the black radish. And in vain. Daikon makes no first frost, which is easy to damage the roots, particularly the upper portion, and they may result in rotting.

Description

Presented in the form of a long cylindrical shape it resembles something carrots. The dimensions are just huge. The taste of sweet, bitter, and no sharpness (in radish it is). In horticultural stores a large selection of seeds and varieties of daikon.

What good is this vegetable

This vegetable is low in calories, most of who are dieting, versatile in cooking. It can fry, extinguish, or consume food in its raw form, as a rule, make salads. It is useful for those who have problems with the gastrointestinal tract, from the antiseptic nature, cleanses the liver and kidneys. This vegetable can provide for his family for the whole winter, if properly stored.

planting time

It is better to put it in the middle of summer, like a radish. If the seeds are planted early, it will give the arrow, as is the culture of short days. ripening period, daikon about 70-80 days (in middle-grades).

How to plant and care

Partly Sunny selected for planting. In the flower bed you need to make a few buckets of compost and a little ash. Razravnyat dig and rake. The distance between seeds is - 5 cm. Row spacing - 30 cm. After planting a flower bed should be well watered. After the seedlings can be thinned them, that was not gelled. Culture does not like waterlogged, so in the future you need to follow a moderate watering. As a top dressing is applied green manure. The main enemy of daikon - a cruciferous flea. She eats leaves. Against it works well ashes to be sprinkled on the wet ground in the garden.

Cleaning

All varieties are cleaned in cold dry weather, but before frosts. So be aware of weather forecasts. Until the end of October, you need to harvest daikon. If the temperature is below zero, the roots become damaged.

Daikon slightly undermines shovel, and then removed his hands adhering earth. For a while he had to lie in the sun to the earth remaining on the roots dried up. Then cut off the tops, decomposed into boxes and filled with sand. For storage in the basement are taken only intact roots.

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