2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The life of gardeners begins long before the arrival of summer. Having celebrated the numerous New Year holidays, they begin to audit seed stocks, check them for germination, buy something in order to start the seedling stage of gardening in March-April, or even in February. For all ideas, there is often not enough window sill area, and therefore appetites have to be pacified and limited. But, there are vegetables that can be sown in open ground in the midst of the summer period, which will save the energy and time of gardeners, and even at the same time make full reserves of vitamins for the winter
To maintain the body with vitamins in winter and early spring, vegetables that have been tested by the centuries-old experience of the Russian peasantry are perfect. Such, partially forgotten, faithful friends of man, like Rutabaga, Turnip and Radish, sown in the summer, will successfully bring their root crops to full maturity, ahead of the arrival of autumn frosts. In addition, a later harvest will shorten the storage time of vegetables in the bins, more effectively conserving the vitamins they contain.
To be healthy in winter, you need to plant Rutabaga
To provide the gardener with high-quality root crops with a delicate vitamin pulp, Rutabaga takes three to four months from the moment of germination. So, the July sowing of seeds will have time to yield a harvest for winter meals with the participation of rutabaga dishes in the menu.
Typically, July is the hottest month, drying up the soil, and the Rutabaga plant loves moist soil. This obliges the gardener, after digging up the land fertilized with ammonium nitrate, potassium salt and superphosphate (at the rate of thirty grams of each mineral fertilizer per square meter), to carry out generous pre-sowing watering. The soil should be sandy, light and permeable to moisture, since Rutabaga does not tolerate stagnant water. To better retain moisture in the soil, crops are mulched.
In order for the size of root crops to be decent, the distance between rows and individual shoots in a row should not be less than twenty centimeters. Harvesting of root crops is carried out before the expected frost. The best suited for winter storage is the Rutabaga variety called "Krasnoselskaya".
Let the yellow-faced turnip grow and be strong
The peculiar taste of turnip, combining sweetness with bitterness, is familiar to many from childhood. The period of plant development in the Turnip is even shorter than that of the turnip, some two or two and a half months. Therefore, the time for sowing seeds can even be postponed to August if it is planned to leave root crops for winter storage.
Growing conditions for Turnip are similar to growing conditions for Rutabaga. But the distance between individual shoots can be made smaller, from eight to ten centimeters, because the size of the turnip roots is slightly inferior to the size of the turnip roots. The Turnip variety called "Petrovskaya" is best suited for winter storage.
If the appetite is "lame", the radish immediately helps out
An honorable vegetable of Russian gardens is a radish, which has the ability to improve the digestion process, regain lost appetite, fight tubercle bacillus and kidney stones, can give two harvests per summer season. To do this, the seeds are first betrayed to the soil in early spring, so that root crops can be used to diversify the summer diet, and the second sowing is carried out at the end of the first month of summer, June.
If in early spring there is enough moisture in the soil, then by July moisture becomes deficient, and therefore, to prepare the beds for Radish, you should follow the same procedure as described above, when preparing the soil for sowing Rutabaga (including the addition of mineral fertilizers). By the way, many gardeners do not make special beds for Radish, but sow it together with onions, cucumbers and other vegetable crops (except for plants belonging to the Cruciferous family). For winter storage, special varieties have been developed, which are distinguished by enviable keeping quality, in the name of which there is the adjective "winter". For example, "Winter round white", "Winter round black" …
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