Gardeners believe that growing beets is a thankless task, and that you won’t get a good harvest.
To avoid obvious mistakes when caring for beets, you need to follow simple rules.
How to prepare beets for planting
The beetroot care scheme, which will allow you to harvest a rich harvest of tasty root vegetables, is simple:
- soak the seeds so that the beets sprout faster;
- we prepare the beds: we make furrows, water the soil;
- We sow beets, wait for shoots to emerge, thin them out, water them, loosen the soil, and feed the beets.
It would seem that there is nothing complicated about this, but you need to pay attention to the nuances.
How to sow beets correctly
The depth of seed placement is no more than 3–4 cm, the distance between rows is 30–40 cm.
What fertilizer to choose for beets
Potassium fertilizers are one of the best options. We feed beets with potassium sulfate or potassium salt.
What to put in the holes when planting beets
We enter into each square:
- 3 kg of compost, 500 g of wood ash, 40 g of superphosphate, 20 g of ammonium nitrate, we dig.
How to speed up the growth of beets
We apply fertilizers according to the following scheme:
- in the phases of 9-10 leaves, row closure and inter-row closure.
