2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Many vegetable growers use radish as a root vegetable in winter for cough treatment, as an additive to salads. It turns out that there are other varieties of useful crops. In Asian countries, it is widely used as a leafy green. Let's take a closer look at a wonderful vegetable
Value
Leaf radish belongs to the Chinese oilseed species. Usually it is used in our area as a green manure or fodder crop.
She has many valuable qualities:
1. Contains proteins, sugars, minerals, phytonutrients, vitamins (up to 50 mg of vitamin C per 100 g of leaves), potassium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, sulfur.
2. It is a powerful antioxidant.
3. Retains its nutritional properties for a long period.
4. Possesses bactericidal, choleretic substances.
5. Promotes active juicing in the pancreas.
6. Cleans the human body from harmful bacteria, toxins.
A quick return of the crop in a short time allows you to grow a vegetable in several steps per year. In winter in heated greenhouses using hydroponic and conventional methods, in spring and summer in open field.
Biological features
Long-day annual culture. With an increase in the lighting time for more than 15 hours, it sweeps out peduncles faster, to the detriment of the green mass.
A powerful taproot goes to great depths, extracting all the necessary elements for nutrition. In salad varieties, it remains thin, does not form thickenings. In the upper part, it ends with a rosette of leaves in the amount of 5-16 pieces. Height with petioles reaches 25-30cm. The shape is elongated and oblong. The plate is smooth, without noticeable pubescence.
Inflorescence raceme with small, white or slightly pinkish petals. The fruit is a pod with light brown, large seeds inside. 1 gram contains about 80-100 seeds.
Preferences
Grows on any soil. The greatest yield is obtained on sandy loam soils or light loams enriched with humus with a neutral reaction of the environment. In the crop rotation it comes after potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, legumes, carrots.
It responds well to watering. Does not tolerate stagnation of water in the area of / u200b / u200bthe roots, which causes rot. In dry weather, flower stalks form faster. Loves sunny areas. Cold resistant. Withstands short-term frosts up to -2 degrees.
Varieties
In the State Register for Russia in 2003, one early-ripening Eastern Express variety was registered. The readiness of leaves from germination to harvesting is 20 days. The rosette contains 4-7 light green leaf plates 35-43 cm long, together with petioles. The marginal form is weakly toothed, obovate structure, without villi, smooth. The structure is tender, crispy and juicy. The bitterness content is insignificant, a large amount of vitamin C - 53 mg per 100 grams of product. Productivity up to 3, 9kg per square meter. Possesses relative resistance to early steming.
There are 2 varieties of Korean selection common in Russia, Darang, Idoren. They are successfully grown in our climatic conditions.
Agrotechnics
Leaf radish is sown at several times:
• winter greenhouses - from November to March;
• open ground - from late April to 20 May and late July;
• film shelters - all April, end of August.
Before sowing, the seeds are kept for several hours in a warm solution of medium concentration of potassium permanganate. Dried to a state of flowability.
The bed is dug onto the bayonet of the shovel. Grooves are cut through 25 cm, 1 cm deep, compacting the bottom. Spill a tablespoon with a solution of complex fertilizer "Zdraven" on a bucket of liquid. Spread the seeds every 5-10 cm in a row. Fall asleep with soil, compacting the surface with your hand.
In warm weather, the first shoots appear in 4-7 days. In dry weather, watered in moderation. In the phase of 3-4 leaves, 1 plant is thinned to the norm per 10 linear centimeters of a row.
Loosening after watering, destroying the soil crust. Remove weeds as they appear. The salad culture does not need additional dressing.
Protect crops from cruciferous flea beetles by dusting the leaves after watering with ash. It is not recommended to use chemical means of control, due to the short time from processing to eating the product.
After 25-30 days, selective harvesting begins, finishing it before the formation of flower shoots. The leaves are stored in bags on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for 1-2 weeks.
Leaf radish is still not widespread in Russia as a vegetable crop. You should pay attention to it as a valuable plant that carries many elements useful for the body.
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