How to plant radishes

Radishes, before other vegetables, add variety to a menu that is sometimes boring during the winter. Who wouldn’t be happy to see juicy and crispy radishes on the table? It is good on its own and great for spring salads.

If you grow radishes on your own plot of land, you can pamper yourself with this vegetable almost all summer. And with a warm spring, the first harvest can be harvested at the end of April. But first you should learn how to plant radishes.

Radish seeds can be sown as early as the end of March. Here it is important to choose a garden plot with well-fertilized soil in a place warmed by the sun. Loose soil is suitable for radishes, so it is recommended to loosen it well and mix it with sand or peat. At the site of the future beds, shallow holes are made, watered with water, sowed and lightly sprinkled with a soil-sand mixture.

Knowing how to plant radishes, you must not forget about caring for them, which boils down to protecting the plant from the cruciferous flea beetle. By attacking newly emerged sprouts, this pest is capable of destroying them completely. And nothing can save the plant. You can repel the cruciferous flea beetle using wood ash. You need to sprinkle the beds with it several times a week from the very beginning of sowing the seeds. In addition, ash is a good natural fertilizer.

To ensure that the radish is not tough and its flesh remains sweetish, the plant should be well watered. To obtain large root crops, it is necessary to carry out timely thinning of young plants.

It is convenient to sow radish seeds in different beds with an interval of 10-15 days.And then it will be possible to harvest several crops during the planting season.