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Vegetable culture in the form of turnips has been known in Russia since ancient times. It appeared in the gardens of summer residents and farmers even before potatoes were brought to Russia. In general, turnip was a very popular and demanded vegetable until the seventeenth century. In those days, the average person's diet necessarily included this vegetable
Turnip fruits had a lot of useful properties and had a positive effect on the body. Therefore, such a product was steamed, baked, stewed and tormented. Throughout the year, the tables of the Russian people were filled with turnip dishes.
Turnip benefits
Glucoraphanin is one of the main components found in turnips. Such a substance can be found very rarely in products. But it has a unique effect - the prevention of the formation of cancer cells in the body, as well as the implementation of their neutralization. A lot of vitamins are found in the composition of turnip vegetables. Also, other useful substances in the form of potassium, magnesium, sodium have a positive effect on the body. In general, turnips are recommended to be eaten by people who suffer from diabetes mellitus. Often, turnips are eaten by those categories of people who are fans of healthy eating.
What are the varieties of turnip?
Turnip belongs to a two-year type of vegetable crops. In the first year of its development, the plant forms a root crop, which has a crown of a rosette consisting of leaves. In the second year, you can see the formation of seeds and leaves. Usually only a root vegetable is used in food, and only recently have turnip leaves been crumbled into salads to give dishes a special taste. Now a huge number of varieties of such a culture as turnip are known. They have many differences from each other, which lie in the appearance, taste and characteristics of cultivation. The shape of turnip fruits can be round, oval or oblong. In lettuce varieties of turnips, the rosette of leaves has a non-fluffy appearance and has a pleasant taste.
In terms of leaving, turnips can be considered an unpretentious plant. In addition, it tolerates low temperatures and small frosts. The ripening time of the fruits is usually very fast, which allows you to get two harvests in one summer season - in summer and autumn. If you want to get tasty and healthy root vegetables in the summer, then you should give preference to such varieties as Petrovskaya-1, May yellow. To please yourself with turnips in the autumn season, varieties Orbita, Luna or Namangan should be planted on the site. There are also individual salad varieties of kakabu. These include Snowball, Snow Maiden and Geisha.
How to prepare the soil for turnips?
Despite the fact that growing turnips is not considered very difficult, beginners do not always succeed in getting the desired result from the first harvest. Usually, getting an irregular shape or a bad taste of root crops has a reason in the form of improper soil preparation for planting turnips. You cannot plant this vegetable crop in places where cabbage or radishes were previously grown. Turnip feels much better in the beds after cucumbers or tomatoes. Also, before growing turnips, it is better to process the soil with a special method.
To do this, you need to dig up a bed for planting turnips in the autumn season, and then a mixture of humus and sand must be added to the loamy soil, which can be replaced with sawdust. If the soil is of a sandy type, then only humus can be added to it. The calculation of the proportions of the component is eight kilograms per square meter of the plot. Sawdust should be applied in the amount of half a bucket per square meter. Humus is often replaced with manure, but lime is added to it. In such a situation, summer residents often also use soil fertilization with mineral agents. They can be potassium chloride, superphosphate or urea. In order for a turnip not to be damaged by such a harmful insect as a cruciferous flea, three hundred grams of ash per square meter should be added to the soil.
How to sow turnips?
Turnip tolerates frost very firmly and efficiently, up to two degrees. However, planting a vegetable too early is still not worth it, since in this case a peduncle is formed on the plant instead of a root crop. Thus, the optimal time for planting turnips is the end of April. The sowing of turnips is carried out using the line method - a furrow with a depth of three centimeters. The distance between the rows should be thirty centimeters.
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