2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Daikon is a rather peculiar overseas visitor from distant Japan. Unfortunately, the attempts of many summer residents to grow this culture on the site fail one after another, and this is not surprising, because it is extremely difficult for the daikon to adapt to the new climate. Nevertheless, nothing is impossible - with the necessary knowledge and a certain amount of perseverance, you can grow a magnificent daikon
Choosing varieties
In order for the daikon to quickly take root on the site, it is necessary to carefully select the most suitable variety. On light soils, it will not be difficult to grow daikon of the Ninengo and Nerrima varieties, on loams, the Tokinashi and Miyashige varieties will please the harvest, and on heavy and clayey areas, the Shogoin or Shiroagari varieties feel best. As for the quality of the soil, the daikon is completely unpretentious to it.
How to avoid shooting?
Despite the fact that breeders have bred a number of varieties perfectly adapted to long daylight hours (which is very important for our latitudes) daikon, from time to time this culture begins to shoot. The Sasha variety is considered the most resistant to unwanted shooting, but in practice it was noticed that occasionally arrows are formed on such a daikon. But this variety is truly incredible early maturity.
In order not to encounter arrowing, daikon seeds are ideally planted either at the very end of summer or with the onset of early spring. True, in a number of regions, during spring planting, the daikon immediately blooms and, as a result, does not give the long-awaited root crops.
Spring planting
Spring sowing of capricious daikon for seedlings in central Russia is usually done in early April. And after about a month, the grown seedlings are planted under long film tunnels in carefully insulated greenhouses. If it is planned to grow this culture in the open field, then the boxes with seedlings on warm days are recommended to be taken out to the glazed loggia.
As soon as the spring frosts pass, all seedlings begin to be transplanted into the beds. And since the daikon is a very thermophilic culture, as soon as the thermometer drops below ten degrees, it should be covered with a special covering material or film.
If you want to grow a rich harvest, you need to provide future root crops with sufficient area for their full development. Regardless of whether the culture will grow in open or in closed ground, a distance of twenty to twenty-five centimeters between plants must be maintained, and between rows - from sixty to seventy centimeters.
Since daikon roots go very deep into the ground, it should be dug to a depth of at least twenty-five centimeters. And when forming the beds, it does not hurt to add complex fertilizers or compost, and lime is additionally added to acidic soils.
In order to facilitate the growth and development of each plant, it is necessary to make holes for all root crops, without exception, with a drill (later they are filled with fertile soil). The depth of these holes must be at least half a meter. Also, before planting the daikon, all the beds should be thoroughly moistened.
In the event that it is planned to grow several specimens for seeds, it is important to make sure that no other cruciferous crops grow nearby - if suddenly they are accidentally pollinated, then there is a great risk of getting a rather strange hybrid instead of daikon.
Autumn planting
This landing has both certain advantages and some disadvantages. The advantages are that the daikon planted in the fall never blooms, and also that for its planting it is quite permissible to occupy the soil freed up after harvesting other crops. And the main disadvantage of autumn planting is considered to be a decrease in yield, since the cherished root crops simply do not have time to reach their maximum dimensions.
In central Russia, it is important to complete the autumn planting before the second decade of August. And the preparation of the beds in this case is completely identical to the preparation of the beds for spring planting. True, more phosphorus and nitrogen-containing fertilizers will need to be added to the soil depleted by early crops.
When planting seeds, two or three seeds are immediately placed on the beds in each hole, no more. With the appearance of real leaves, all surplus seedlings are removed - it is important that one single seedling remains in each hole. And after thorough thinning, all vegetation is fed with pre-prepared complex fertilizers.
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