In article good advice allowing the truck farmer is given and in the autumn to be glad to a crop of fresh greens and tasty root crops.
SUMMER LANDING
The vegetable bed already presented us with the first long-awaited greens – fragrant branches of fennel and parsley, the curative lettuce leaves, a crackling garden radish. It is a high time to think of that also in the autumn could be glad the crop of fresh greens and tasty root crops. Besides summer repeated crops will allow to use more productively each plot of land on a site.
After cleaning of early culture on the site which has been taken away under repeated crops, carry out the corresponding processing of the soil: dig over it on depth of 12 – 15 cm and surely level a rake. At once after that sow or land repeated cultures. At summer term of crops (from the middle of June to the middle of July), seeds close up to the soil on 1 – 1,5 cm deeper, than in the spring as the soil during this period dries up quicker.
Those areas which were occupied with a garden radish, spinach, fennel, salad, are suitable for landing of sprouts of mid-season grades of belokochanny cabbage. On the site which has been well filled with organic and mineral fertilizers, after early green it is possible to plant 22 – 25-day sprouts of the cucumbers which have been grown up in pots. After cleaning of early kochanny cabbage – to land a summer cauliflower. A table beet, poseyanny to the damp soil the let germinate seeds can be the second culture after cleaning of winter onions.
The most tested culture of repeated crops – a garden radish. Sow early ripening varieties after cleaning of early potatoes or green vegetables. In cloudy not hot weather the garden radish is possible as well as possible. During its such time it is possible podsevat every week. After cleaning of early culture repeated crops of a garden radish carry out in the I decade of June, and green (salad, fennel, spinach) can be sowed and in later terms. Seeds for crops choose large, fresh. The garden radish is exclusively sensitive to light. On open solar sites root crops turn out juicy, gentle, and in a shadow vegetable gives a dlinyony tops of vegetable, but production – bad quality. At repeated crops of a garden radish it is necessary to consider that light day shouldn’t be too long, differently the plant will quickly pass to flowering. That it didn’t occur, a garden radish pritenyayut, using the demountable framework fitted by an opaque material, for example, by roofing felt. Framework put in 8 h of evening, and remove in 7 h of morning next day to provide to plants 13-hour day.
It is a high time to think of, how zapastis a radish for the winter. Sow a radish nests, in each pole put on two seeds. Crops make at the end of June – the beginning of July, and clean selectively. The last root crops can be cleaned, when already the frost will beat leaves of plants. Don’t forget and about turnip as for winter storage root crops from summer crops – since the end of June till the end of July are suitable only. It is thus better to sow seeds on the solar, not shaded place. July crops are harmed less by an earth flea. In 50 – 60 days the new crop of root crops will be ready. Turnip perfectly transfers early frosts. To clean it it is possible even at the end of October, before frosts.
The end of June and the beginning of July – is a high time for daikon crops. This surprising culture will please you in the autumn with an unknown crop and remarkable taste. High-grade root crops give the majority of grades of daikon only at crops in the second half of summer when light day decreases. Shoots of daikon appear on 5 – the 7th day after crops, and it is possible to sow since the end of June to the I decade of August. Top yields receive at crops in the first half of July.
Sectional haricot is suitable as the second culture after all vegetables cleaned prior to the beginning of July. It is best of all to carry out crops each two weeks continuously to clean green beans. However it is necessary to mean that a deadline of crops of haricot, at which else it is possible to receive a crop – on July 15. For late crops it is necessary to use only early ripening varieties.
To create the green conveyor, spinach is sowed by each two weeks, since early spring and till the end of August. For autumn consumption this culture sow in June-July to receive greens in the early spring, sow in August, under winter. For summer crops use late-ripening grades as at early grades in warm weather the premature steblevaniye begins, quality of a crop decreases.
The winter onions – one more vegetable rarity which will allow raznoobrazit your spring menu but to take care of it it is necessary just now, in the summer. One of the most important conditions of hoyoroshy rewintering of crops of winter onions is crops time. Before leaving in winter (the end of November) plants should form 4 – 5 leaves, and the neck should be on the average in the thickness about a pencil. Only such plants can well transfer frosts, and in the spring quickly grow. It is possible to consider as optimum terms of sowing I-II decade of August. Also it is very important, that in the soil there was enough moisture for amicable shoots. In the spring the wintered plants quickly go to growth and already by the end of May form a commodity bulb in mass of 100 – 150 g.
Razyolichny types of salad are suitable for summer crops: sheet, koyochanny and salad romaine. Summer grades of salad aren’t afraid of hot weather and don’t suffer an early steblevaniye. Sheet salad clean early, in a phase 5 – the 7th leaf. At later age flavoring advantages of a plant umenshayutsya. Salad grows coarse, appears cvetuxa. Sheet salad sow ranks, otstoyashchy from each other on 8 – 10 see Kochanny salad well grows at plentiful lighting and moderate summer temperatures. In a heat and a drought heads of cabbage turn out friable and weak. Summer grades of kochanny salad are neutral to a longitude of day. Sow vegetable during the whole vegetative period with row-spacings 25 – 30 see Simeon zadelyvayut almost superficially, at droughty weather – is slightly deeper, to 1,5 see. When plants will develop the 3rd leaf, zagushchenny crops thin out. This operation repeat and later, two weeks later. The chosen plants use in food as sheet salad.
In the II decade of July yet late to sow and salad romaine. It will give an oblong friable head of cabbage. And the plant doesn’t twist a head of cabbage, it do artificially, connecting leaves over the center ovoshha. The connected leaves, being bleached, become unusually gentle and juicy. Seeds sow in soil, distance between ranks – 30 – 45 see.
The Chinese (Beijing) cabbage – early culture which as well as possible is suitable for cultivation at the end of summer and in the autumn. At spring landings it badly increases vegetayotivny weight and quickly passes to a tsveyoteniye. Five-week sprouts vysazhivayut from the II decade of July to the I decade of August inclusive. In food the Chinese cabbage is suitable in 20 – 30 days after sprouts disembarkation. This unpretentious culture gives big crops even in cold and rainy weather, perenosit autumn frosts to-8 °C.
It is necessary to take care now and of crops of perennials: sorrel, onions-batuna, shnitt-onions. For early autumn consumption in the middle of July – the beginning of August sow fennel.
Don’t forget vyseyat borago (an ogurechyony grass). This wonderful plant is rich with silicon without which neither the person, nor plants can’t exist. At summer updating of crops borago consider features of this culture: in hot weather it place on pritenenny to an uchayostka, and in moderately warm – on a solar, fertile bed. Here borago gives juicy, gentle escapes.
As repeated culture also vikoovsyany mix, a rye on green top dressing or siderat can serve. Except traditional sideralny cultures, for green fertilizer it is possible vyseyat the remains of seeds of vegetable bean cultures – peas, haricot, beans, lentil, nuta. Certainly, they won’t give a crop, but will create big green material which will serve as fertilizer for other vegetables the next year. The released bed is desirable for digging over, and then ranks or randomly to sow seeds of the bean. The norm of crops should be increased, that plants on a bed stood closely to each other and weeds had less chances to occupy the place in the sun.
(On Ogorodnik magazine materials).