Planting and caring for beets is important information that every gardener needs. Rules for thinning root crops Is it possible to transplant beets when thinning

Root crops have one feature: they form seeds so small that it is impossible to sow them with normal planting density (celery, parsley, radishes, carrots, and others) or form seedlings (beets), from which several sprouts of closely spaced plants grow. As a rule, dense plantings drastically reduce the quality, and hence the quantity, of the crop. Root crops are twisted, horned, small, often tasteless. For root crops important trick is the thinning of landings. But it cannot be done as and when necessary. It is timely and high-quality thinning that will allow you to get the desired full-fledged harvest.

General thinning rules

To obtain the required plant density, the seeding rate of root crops (involuntarily) is increased by 4-6 times. To create an optimal feeding area for plants, it is necessary to carry out 2-3, and sometimes 4 breakthroughs of seedlings and plants, in accordance with agrotechnical requirements.

• The first breakthrough is always done in the cotyledon leaflet phase or after the formation of the first true leaflet. If the shoots are uneven, then the first breakthrough is carried out in the phase of the cotyledon fork, without waiting for the formation of cotyledon leaves or a week after mass shoots. In order not to pull out extra seedlings, thinning is performed more often by pinching seedlings near the ground itself or using tweezers to remove them.
• The second breakthrough is usually carried out after 15-20-30 days or, according to the requirements of agricultural technology, in the appropriate phase. In this thinning, strong plants are left, and weak ones are removed. Between plants should remain 0.5-1.0-1.5 cm and no more, because due to different weather conditions, diseases, pest attacks, thinning can occur. With a sparse standing density, plants also form poor-quality root crops, and the yield decreases.
• The third breakthrough is actually the formation of the final (required) standing density. The distance between root crops is 4-6-8 cm. If agricultural technology provides for reusable harvesting (for example: on a bunch of carrots, young beet root crops), then the most developed plants are removed, the rest are left for growing.

The next breakthroughs are actually multiple selective harvesting.

Thinning individual crops

Thinning beetroot

When planting beets with seedlings, each forms 5-6 seedlings. The beets are thinned twice. Preliminary watering is carried out, which allows you to pull out the plant without damaging the root system next to the growing crop.

According to the cultivation technology, beets are thinned out during the growing season 2 times:

• the first breakthrough is carried out in the phase of 1-2 leaves, removing the weakest, underdeveloped plants from the sowing. Plants are left in a row after 3-4 cm. If the beets have sprouted unevenly, then thinning is transferred to a later time and performed in the phase of 2-3 leaves. These plants are excellent seedlings that often produce a higher quality crop than direct seeding. If there is no separate bed for this seedling, plant it along the edges of the beds with other crops (carrots, onions).
• The second thinning is carried out in the phase of 3-5 developed leaves. By this time, the root crop has a diameter of up to 3-5 cm and can be used as a young root crop of beam ripeness. When thinning, the tallest root crop is pulled out, and the small ones are left to grow for the next thinning or selective harvesting. When thinning, leave a distance of 6-8 cm, and late varieties(for bookmarking for storage) up to 10 cm in diameter.

thinning carrots

Capricious, but necessary in our menu, culture. Small seeds germinate for a long time. So that the seedlings do not turn out to be sparse, an increased seed rate is usually sown. Since carrots are sown in several terms with a run of 10-12 days, and thinning is one of the important agricultural practices, there is enough fuss with carrot beds in the summer. 3 thinnings are carried out on carrots, and with repeated selective harvesting, their number reaches 5-6.

• Carrots do not tolerate thickening, so the first thinning begins 1-2 weeks after receiving mass seedlings. In thickened places, several plants break through at once, leaving a distance of 1.0-2.0 cm no more in a row. Do not forget to carry out after a breakthrough, top dressing, watering plants and light hilling. They are necessary to protect plants from carrot flies.
• The second thinning is carried out when the root crop reaches a diameter of 1.5-2.0 cm (beam ripeness phase).
• The third breakthrough is final. By this time, the final standing density is formed on the carrots and the distance in the row is at least 6-8 cm. Root crops with a diameter of 5 cm are harvested. At a smaller distance, the root crops will be small. When breaking through, the largest root crops are harvested, since by the final harvest they are strongly outgrown, the flesh becomes coarse and not so sweet and tasty. The final cleaning is carried out in the third decade of September. Earlier final harvesting of carrots reduces its yield.

Thinning parsley

Favorite spicy-tasting and vegetable culture. Agrotechnics of sowing and thinning repeats carrots in everything. The difference is only in the timing of seedlings. If carrots sprout in 5-7 days, then parsley in 15-20, and in dry years - in 25 days. It is best to sow parsley in the form of compacted crops, mixing parsley seeds with radish or salad seeds. These cultures germinate in 3-7 days and serve as markers for sowing parsley. By their harvest, shoots of the main crop just appear.

On garden plots root and leaf varieties of this crop are usually grown. Both of them use the above-ground mass and the root crop, which is more pronounced in root parsley. Parsley is thinned and selectively harvested throughout the warm season as needed. By autumn, 5-8 cm are left between plants. With such a density of standing, the root crop of root parsley retains all its valuable qualities (sweet fragrant pulp, root crop without cracks, even shape).

Parsley plants, seeded or left unharvested for the winter, form young shoots and edible roots, which are also thinned out.

Radish thinning

Of the early root crops, the most common is the radish. Cold-resistant and early ripening, it provides the family with a fresh vitamin salad from early spring. It is sown at a temperature of +10..+11*C and harvested after 25-35 days. Like carrots, radishes are sown at several times (only during the cold period of time in spring and autumn) with a run-up of 5-7 days, which prolongs the time for obtaining fresh products.

Radish thinning is carried out twice::

• a week after mass shoots, underdeveloped, stunted plants or noticeable flower beds are pulled out. Leave a distance in the row of 1.5-2.0 cm.
• The second thinning is carried out with a root diameter of 4-5 cm and after a few days the root crops are harvested.

It is not possible to describe thinning periods for all vegetable crops grown through seed sowing. Above are the data of the most common vegetable and spice crops. Tentatively, all root crops are thinned out 2-3 times. The first breakthrough is carried out after mass shoots not earlier than 2-3 weeks. The second - during the formation of a root crop of beam ripeness used for food (radish). The third - if necessary, the final formation of the density of standing (carrots, beets). Moreover, the standing density depends on the size of the root crop of a standard size (for example, the diameter of carrots is 5-6 cm, beets 9-10 cm, radishes 2-3 cm).

Watering, which varieties are better to buy, how to store? Perhaps there is none holiday table where there would be no beetroot dish. And on weekdays, beetroot salad is constantly on the table.

In schools, kindergartens, hospitals, beets are necessarily included in the diet. Indeed, during cooking, long-term storage, it retains its healing properties. The whole technology of how to grow beets is described in this article.

Valuable are those varieties of table beets that have flesh and leaves of red-violet color.

Such beets contain the anthocyanin dye, which lowers the level of cholesterol in the blood, which is the prevention of atherosclerosis and is important in its treatment.

The universal favorite is different in shape: round, flat, oblong.

Table beet varieties: "Bordeaux 237", "Red Ball", "Gribovskaya", "Bravo", "Pablo", "Flat A-473", "Podzimnyaya", "Incomparable", "Egyptian Flat", "Cylinder".

Requirements for the planting site and soil for growing beets

Beets are afraid of shading.

It cannot be planted under apple trees, on the north side of climbing, corn, sunflowers.

Beets are demanding on the nutritional value of the soil.

Table beet is demanding on soil fertility, it uses a lot of nutrients for growth.

Do not put fresh manure under the beets.

It is better to plant without manure at all, using. On fresh manure beets will have many roots, not intense color, tasteless, it is more often affected by scab.

Do not plant red beets in low places.

She doesn't like waterlogging. If such a need arises, then make a high bed with deep furrows. On acidic floating soils, the root neck and roots can rot in beets.

Remember, beets love fertilized soil.

When choosing mineral fertilizers, it is better to use those that contain magnesium. Boron is a particularly important trace element. In the absence of this element, the beet stops growing, as the core leaves die off. Both boron and magnesium are found in the ash.

Beets are needed in in large numbers nitrogen and. While the leaves are growing, she uses nitrogen more, and at the end of the growing season - potassium. Phosphorus is absorbed evenly throughout the growing season.

Beets tolerate chlorine. The soil for table beets should be neutral. If the pH is below 6.5, then in the fall it is necessary to lime the bed. It is necessary to make 200 - 400 g of lime per 1 m 2. The amount depends on what acidity the soil has at the time of its deoxidation.

It is worth recalling here that excessive liming ( alkaline soil) leads to disease - scab. "Bordeaux", "Incomparable" are resistant to scab, and "Cylinder" has a delicate skin, so it gets sick more often.

A good beet harvest depends on predecessors.

If the predecessors were grown on manure, then beets can be sown immediately on this bed, of course, by digging it up in the fall. If we know that the soil is poor in organic matter, then in the fall, when digging, 5-6 kg of humus or mature compost can be added per 1 m 2.

Do not grow beets after spinach and chard. If possible, try not to plant it after root crops.

Good predecessors for beets are all types of salads, kohlrabi, onions, and colored.

Do not plant it for several years in the same place.

Planting beets

It is impossible to solve the question of how to grow beets without knowing the rules of planting. The timing of sowing beets is determined by local climatic conditions.

A good gardener should always have an insurance fund for seeds (not only beets, but also other crops). Having seeds, you can take a chance and sow some crops earlier optimal timing. Several rows of beets can be sown as early as April. Shelter will help protect her from frost, and there will be beets to the table in the middle of summer.

It is not necessary to sow a large bed of table beets in April. The fact is that frozen beets will “shoot”, and at a temperature of -3 - 4 ° C, they may die altogether.

And for winter storage it is best to sow it in late May - early June. On this ridge, before beets, you can grow any kind of lettuce, kohlrabi.

It is necessary to sow beets in rows (under a rope). The row spacing should be 30 cm. And lay out the seeds in 3 pieces in a nest after 10 - 15 cm. Plant beet seeds to a depth of 2 - 3 cm. After germination, thin out, leaving one plant in the nest. Don't procrastinate thinning. Do it when the height of the plants is about 5 cm.

Better yet, make a groove under the rope and spread out one grain at a time after 3-4 cm, and after germination, thin out. If you carefully remove the plants using a knife, then such beets can be planted on another bed.

Watering the beets

Often, gardeners make the following mistake: after sowing and at the beginning of the growing season in dry weather, they do not water the beet garden. Although beetroot tolerates short-term droughts, it needs watering:

1. At the stage of seed germination.

2. During the period when the root system is formed.

3. During the formation of root crops.

Without moisture, root crops lose their value and become woody.

Water stagnation is also harmful. You can make many holes deep into the beds with a pitchfork or a shovel. The water will run out faster.

Transplanting beet seedlings

Beets tolerate transplanting well. Be careful not to make mistakes when transplanting.

1. Lightly cut off the root of the transplanted plant.

2. Remember that beets with a height of 7-10 cm are best suited for transplanting. Very small, as well as overgrown plants, do not take root well.

3. Loosen the place where you will transplant the beets with a pitchfork.

4. Do not forget to loosen and weed the garden bed in time.

In the first month, beets grow slowly. Roots can take moisture and nutrition only from the upper layers of the soil. That is why top dressing with mullein infusion, ash or a ready-made set of mineral fertilizers for beets does not interfere. For top dressing, you can use mineral fertilizers with a high content of nitrogen and potassium.

Infusions can be used against aphids on beets onion peel, potato tops, dandelion leaves.

Sow dill in several places between the rows of beets (as well as carrots). They will live on dill beneficial insects that will destroy the aphids.

Ash and tobacco dust will scare away fleas from beets.

Some gardeners sow vegetables for the winter: carrots, parsley, radishes, parsnips, beets, lettuce, dill, onions (nigella). The beds are prepared in advance, and sowing is carried out when stable cold weather sets in.

You can also sow table beets for the winter. Only not all varieties are suitable for this, but special ones designed for this purpose: “Podzimnaya A - 474”, “Polar flat K-240”.

Beet storage

We must not only grow good beets but be able to keep it. When harvesting, you need to cut the leaves and do it carefully, without damaging the skin.

Vegetables such as beetroot, radish, daikon, black radish, parsnips, turnips, carrots must be dug up with a shovel when harvesting so as not to cut off the root, not to damage the skin, otherwise such a vegetable will be poorly stored.

You can store beets in pits along with potatoes, or in a cellar in small boxes of 10-20 kg, sprinkled with sand. Optimum temperature storage about 0 - 2 ° C, humidity 90 - 95%.

Good "keeping quality" of the table beet "Bordeaux 237", "Podzimnyaya A - 474", "Single-growth". If you properly store beets, then it retains juiciness and usefulness until the new harvest.

Growing beet seeds

How to grow beets without seeds is unrealistic. Everything starts with planting material. It happens that beets degenerate, turn white, lose their taste.

Do not leave such beets for seed production. For seeds, select such specimens that have clearly defined varietal properties.

When cut, the color should be a deep burgundy, and the shape should be appropriate for this variety. "Cylinder" - looks like a carrot, "Red Ball" - round like a ball, "Egyptian Flat" - flattened from the poles.

Select the seed plants in the fall. The vegetable should be 10 cm in diameter and weigh 200-400 g.

Don't plant seeds next to two different varieties. You can plant one variety, for example, Bordeaux 237, in one year, and the Red Ball in another. The germination of table beet lasts up to 4 years.

Seed planting dates different regions do not coincide: from mid-March to the end of April.

If the top of the beets is deeply buried during planting, the seedlings may die. It should be at ground level.

Loosen the soil around the seed plants, water, feed before flowering. When flower stalks appear, tie them to a support.

Often a gardener makes such a mistake when collecting seeds: he waits for all the seeds to ripen, as a result, some of the seeds crumble. So that the seeds do not crumble, the branch must be cut when most of the seeds turn brown.

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Beetroot is a biennial plant. In the first year after planting, the plant grows a root crop and a large rosette of leaves. And already in the second year, flower stems and seeds are formed in it.

The size, shape and weight of root crops can be different and depend on the growing conditions and variety. The shape can be round, conical and even spindle-shaped, and the skin and pulp can have different colors. On average, 3-4 kg of root crops can be harvested from 1 m2, but many vegetable growers achieve an increase in yield up to 4.5-6 kg per 1 m2.

With what neighbors to plant beets. It is believed that this root crop does not grow well next to corn. An increase in yield can be achieved if you plant it near the plantings of beans, tomatoes, potatoes and spinach. Beetroot planted next to lettuce, radish, radish, onion, kohlrabi and garlic also grows well.

Temperature regime

Seeds germinate at + 5 - 6 degrees, shoots at this temperature will appear in two weeks. They quite well withstand short-term cooling down to -2 degrees. And adult plants can withstand frosts down to -4 degrees. The optimum temperature for plant development is 18-20 degrees. But when the beets begin to form roots, the need for heat increases. During this period, the optimal air temperature is 20-25 ”C.

Where is the best place to plant? It is best to plant beets on loose, well-drained and aerated loamy soils with a low level of ground water. On alkaline and acidic soils, the plant gives a poor harvest.

Beet is a photophilous plant. With insufficient sunlight, the plants are stretched, its yield is reduced. Therefore, choose well-lit places for landing.

Planting beets video

Soil preparation. Apply organic fertilizer to the site selected for planting a year before. If you failed to do this, apply humus or compost immediately before sowing at the rate of 2-4 kg per 1 m2. If the soil in the area is acidic, add lime in the fall at the rate of 300-700 g per 1 m2. Mineral fertilizers add it in the fall too.

When to plant. Plant beets in the spring when the soil temperature rises to 5-6 °C. If you want to speed up the emergence of seedlings, pre-soak the seeds for one day in water, and then keep them at + 18-20 ° C until single seedlings appear. Dry the seeds slightly before planting.

If you want not only to reduce the germination time of seeds and increase their germination, but also to get in the future big harvest beets, carry out bubbling - saturation of seeds in water with oxygen for 12 hours.

In the garden, beets are planted in three lines.

How to plant. Plant beets in three rows on the beds, plant the seeds to a depth of 4-5 cm. If the soil in your area is heavy, plant the seeds to a depth of no more than 3 cm.

The beet harvest often depends on the weather. Sometimes crops of this plant freeze. If you have already encountered such a nuisance, plant beets in two terms: at the beginning and at the end of May. If the first crops freeze or start shooting, you will have the second ones, from which you are guaranteed to get a harvest.

Beet care

Caring for beets consists in thinning seedlings, loosening the soil, regular watering and fertilizing plants.

Planting thinning.

Thinning beets is carried out twice. Thin out plants for the first time in the 2 true leaf phase (7-10 days after emergence). The distance between the sprouts should be 3-4 cm. The second time, thin out in the phase of 3-4 true leaves. This time, make sure that the plants are at a distance of 8-10 cm from each other.

It is best to thin out in the evening after watering or rain: from wet soil the plant is easy to pull out. Although you can not pull it out, but just pinch at the soil level. This method eliminates damage to the root system of plants remaining in the garden.

If, when thinning, you pull out plants in order to transplant them to another bed, remember that varieties with an elongated root crop should not be dived. When transplanting such plants, their integrity is violated and, as a result, deformed and ugly root crops are formed. But the picking does not affect the quality of the round root crop.

How to plant beets video.

tillage

When caring for beets, pay great attention to loosening, do not allow the formation of a soil crust. At first, loosen the ground to a depth of 3-5 cm, gradually increase the loosening depth to 10 cm. If the root crops peek out of the ground, they should be piled up.

How to water

The most important thing in caring for any plant is regular watering. Beetroot is a moisture-loving plant. The beds should be well moistened before planting, and also watered immediately after sowing. Water regularly throughout the summer season. It is best to irrigate by sprinkling. During the formation and growth of root crops, do not allow long breaks between waterings. Watering should be stopped a month before harvest.

How to feed beets

Two to three feedings should be carried out during the season.

1. Perform the first immediately after thinning. For her, you will need nitrogen fertilizers at the rate of 10-15 g per 1 m2.
2. After the second thinning, apply to the soil ammonium nitrate(15 g per 1 m2).
3. After 15-20 days, when roots begin to form, superphosphate and potassium chloride (7.5-10 g per 1 m2).

Beets sprout and grow without problems even for beginner summer residents, but not everyone gets sweet and beautiful. True, those who have understood its requirements annually receive a harvest of high-quality root crops.

1. In order for beets to grow sweet, you need to choose the right variety. Domestic varieties have long taken root in our gardens Bordeaux, Incomparable, Red ball and etc.
2. Try to plant it in a well-lit garden bed. In the shade of trees, under the canopy of corn, sunflower roots grow unsweetened, poorly colored.
3. The plant is also demanding on soil fertility, although it should not be sown immediately after manure is applied: the formation of root crops will be delayed, and the quality will be low, as they say, neither taste nor appearance. In addition, on manured land, the plant is often affected by fungal diseases. But being sown after crops under which organic matter was introduced (cucumbers, cabbage), beets will form high-quality, tasty root crops.
4. Under the digging of the future beet garden, up to two tablespoons of superphosphate, 1-1.5 tablespoons of potassium sulfate or a tablespoon of nitrophoska and a glass of wood ash per square meter are added. m.
5. In order for the beets to gain “sweetness” and grow without defects, they are fed with fertilizers containing magnesium and boron, for example, magbor. In order for the beets not to lack other nutrients, they feed them at the beginning of the growing season. complex fertilizer(st. spoon per sq. m). Nitrogen is applied if the leaves grow weakly in spring: 2 teaspoons of urea per square meter. m. In the phase of the formation of root crops, top dressing is repeated with complex fertilizer.
6. At the end of the season, “for sweetness”, the beets are “salted”: they are fed with table salt (a teaspoon in a bucket of water).
7. Beautiful root crops cannot be grown without timely thinning of seedlings. This plant has the ability to sprout in bunches, even if you spread the glomerular seeds at the right distance when sowing. Therefore, at the stage of 2-3 true leaves, the seedlings are thinned out, increasing the distance between plants to 3-4 cm. After 2-3 weeks, another thinning is carried out - up to 6-7 cm. "Rare" is also not needed: root crops will grow too large , their quality will deteriorate.

As you can see, caring for beets is not much different from caring for all other root crops. If you follow all these not tricky recommendations in the fall, you will get an excellent harvest.

I eat beets with my family members all year round. Therefore, I definitely grow vegetables in their summer cottage. I always wanted to get large root crops, but instead shaggy, lopsided and small fruits grew. Even when I found out at what time and how to thin out the beets in the garden, I did not follow the recommendations.

She believed that this culture did not need special care. As a result, I received a small harvest, in the spring I had to buy more vegetables to cook my favorite vinaigrette or borscht.

I was proven wrong in the following years, when I began to follow the rules of vegetable crop farming. Mom told me that when planting from one seed, 2 and 3 sprouts grow. In order for all of them to develop fully and give large beets, you need to plant the extra ones on another bed.

There are varieties on sale, from the seed of which only one sprout grows, but we are adherents of Bordeaux. Thinning can be learned even by a beginner.

Friendly plant shoots are a joy for any gardener. The impetus for their development is fully given by thinning. After the procedure, the root crop develops without feeling the "shoulder" of the neighbor. From the soil, the plant receives good nutrition.

Bordeaux beets and other traditional varieties, as well as cylindrical ones, need agrotechnical reception. Feed varieties of root crops are also thinned out.

We live in the Moscow region. For the first time I thin out beets in the last decade of May. I plant seeds at the beginning of the month immediately in moist soil. If there is no precipitation for a long time, then I pre-soak the seeds. Usually there are no problems with germination, and by the end of May 3-4 leaves are formed on the bed.

I do without the second thinning, but it happened that I didn’t notice and left little space for the beets - for adult plants you need at least 6-8 centimeters. And also accidentally left undivided triple or double landings. Then the operation was carried out as needed during June.

In July and August, when the plants begin to form a root crop, it will begin to increase in size, I do not thin out. The root system becomes large and penetrates deep into the ground. When transplanting, its parts are injured, there is a high probability of pinching off the tail.

Adult specimens of the culture take root in a new place for a long time, get very sick and then form ugly root crops.

In any case, I transplant beets in the afternoon after 16 hours. The goal is to minimize stress on the crop and improve the adaptation of the transplanted plants to the new location.

Proper thinning of the plant

On the eve of the manipulations, I carefully shed the bed with seedlings in open ground. I carry out the procedure itself on cloudy days or midday hours, when it's cool. I draw attention to the fact that the soil on the new bed is moist.

I prepare a new bed in advance and introduce azofoska into the soil. I draw furrows on the ground for planting beets. I water the soil and make small indentations for the plants. Then I begin to plant the culture correctly.

1. At the first stage, I loosen the ground between the rows.
2. I place a special spatula with a sharp shape deep enough into the ground next to the seedlings, I lift the clod with sprouts according to the lever principle.
3. I carefully take out the plants and separate them. Sometimes it is possible to pull out two pieces, and one plant remains in its place.
4. I plant 2-3 plants at once, so that the beets almost instantly find themselves in the ground. If I have to delay with a transplant, then I keep the plants in the water. I choose shadow for this.
5. When planting, I leave a distance of 6-7 centimeters between plants.
6. I water the new bed with plantings abundantly with warm and settled water.
7. On the old bed I add humus, straighten the disturbed sprouts and also water with warm and settled water.

Any transplant of beets during thinning requires care and lack of haste.

I advise you to learn about growing and thinning beets on personal plot by watching the video:

If there is not enough space for all the plants on the new bed, then I plant the beets to other crops where there is free space. I planted it with carrots, potatoes, onions, greens. These cultures take root perfectly together and even help protect each other from harmful insects. Yes, and the root crop in the open grows large.

Caring for planted beets

It is not enough to plant beets according to the rules, you need to provide care for the vegetable. After transplantation the next day scorching sun I shade landings. To do this, I cut lilac branches with leaves, insert them next to the root crops. I water the plants in the evening if necessary.

• Two weeks after thinning, I sprinkle the beets with wood ash. Natural fertilizer provides plants with potassium and protects against pests.
• Responsive culture and to the introduction organic fertilizers. During the summer, I feed the plantings with a solution of horse manure or mullein.
• During night frosts, which occur in May and early June, I cover tender beet sprouts with covering material.

How to plant a vegetable so as not to thin out

When growing a crop seedling way thinning is carried out earlier by 3-4 weeks. Plants dive into separate containers, so that when planting in open ground, do not disturb the root system of the plant.

Does not require thinning the following varieties beets:

• Bordeaux single seed,
• Virovskaya one-seeded,
• Russian one-seeded,
• single-growth,
• Belarusian one-seeded,
• Lgovskaya,
• North Caucasian.

A seed contains one germ and produces one plant. In terms of ripening time and taste, the varieties do not differ from traditional ones that require thinning.

How to thin out carrots, beets, parsley

Many novice gardeners experience problems growing crops due to dense plantings in the beds. At first, the first shoots look cute and quite pretty, no worse than those of their neighbors. summer cottage. But as they grow, densely planted plants begin to press on each other, they have a real competition for survival, which negatively affects the yield and viability of most seedlings. In addition, in dense plantings, nitrates are most common.

What to do in this case? Of course, time to thin out the plants.

Thanks to timely and competent thinning, favorable factors are created for growing vegetables.

Thin out carrots - not a field to go

Many vegetable crops require double thinning, that is, the procedure should be repeated twice, combining it with weeding.


For the first time, seedlings are thinned out when they have 2-3 leaves, the second - 5-6 leaves. As a rule, between the first and second thinning procedures, on average, about four weeks pass.

When thinning seedlings, only the strongest and healthiest plants should be left in the garden, and their weaker counterparts should be removed without pity. Sometimes torn seedlings are used for subsequent planting on another bed.



During the first thinning, carrots and parsley leave about 1-2 cm, turnips and beets - 3 cm, radishes and radishes - 4 cm of distance between plants. At the second thinning, this distance is doubled.

How to thin out carrots

Carrots can be very difficult to thin out without damaging the seedlings. Therefore, to facilitate the work, we advise you to first shed the bed well, or thin out the carrots immediately after heavy rain. The best thing is to do this in cloudy weather, then after the manipulations the plants will be able to recover faster.





When thinning carrot seedlings, it is important to preserve their stems as much as possible, otherwise you can attract a carrot fly to the smell of the plant. After thinning, you can sprinkle the bed with ashes to scare away the pest.
There is still a month left before harvesting root crops. At this time, carrots can no longer be watered.

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If a distance of 8-10 centimeters is left between plants at this time, then large and medium-sized root crops are guaranteed. These already grown carrot roots are already used for cooking. During this period, loosening the soil is no longer mandatory in care. During the summer, carrots from the beds, of course, are constantly used as food. I have a rule about which carrots to pick from the ridge. I always take only those carrots that grow close to their neighbor. Even if it is not the largest, but it is "extra" in the garden. And therefore, I act according to the principle - although not the one that I would like, but such a choice will bring more benefits, in the end. If the carrots are not thinned out, then the growing carrots nearby turn out to be small and ugly.


Is it possible to transplant carrots and other crops

Many people ask - is it possible to transplant carrots? Beets, parsley, celery take root well after transplantation. There is no point in transplanting carrots, they immediately wither and do not recover. If you want to transplant torn seedlings to a new bed, then do it immediately in pre-dug holes, avoiding deformation and bending of the root rod. Otherwise, the plant will grow deformed. After that, the newly transplanted seedlings are watered abundantly.

Together with thinning, loosening and weeding are carried out, as well as watering and mulching the soil.