How to Grow Large and Tasty Radishes: All Garden Secrets

You can grow large and tasty radishes without much effort and expense, knowing just a few gardening secrets.

We offer gardeners a choice of two methods - planting in prepared soil and for those who did not have time to plan a bed for radishes at the end of last season.

Method 1: prepared soil

In this case, radishes can be planted without additional feeding. But for this, in the fall, 1-1.5 buckets of compost or humus, 1 liter of ash and 50 grams of superphosphate per 1 square meter of soil had to be added to the prepared bed.

Alternatively, you can dig up the bed (not deep – a shovel blade deep), add 1 bucket of humus, 25-30 g of nitrogen fertilizer, 45-55 g of superphosphate and 20-30 g of potassium salt.

Another way: add 6-10 kg of humus and 70-100 g of azophoska (or ammophoska or nitrophoska) to the same area. Dig everything up.

Method 2: Spring planting

If time is lost, then in the spring, while the soil in the garden is still damp, we add mulch between the rows (humus or compost) from the first fertilizers. Then we use complex mineral fertilizers.

A week after sowing, we apply potassium fertilizer with a water-soluble fertilizer (for example, Agricola).

If you don’t like mineral compositions, you can prepare a fertilizer based on:

chicken manure and water - 1:3 and leave for 3 days, then drain the infusion, add fresh water, leave for another day - the finished infusion is diluted in 10 liters of water and used for watering;

yeast and sugar - 10 g of dry yeast is dissolved in 10 liters of warm water, 100 g of sugar is added, left for 3 hours, diluted with clean water 1:5 and the bed is watered;

ash left over from burning grass and leaves (or tops) - 300-350 g per 10 liters of water, leave for a day, water at the root.

All that remains is to water the radishes in a timely manner and harvest the crop on time.

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• 2 February 2023

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