An experienced gardener told how to use salt to achieve an enviable harvest of beets

Fertilizer for beets It plays a crucial role in shaping the size, quality and taste of root vegetables. In order for the dining beet to grow large, juicy and sweet, the bed should be properly processed and fed. How to do this, today will tell the editors "Site".



It should be remembered that beets prefer to grow on neutral soil, then its root vegetables are characterized by increased sweetness. It is necessary to reduce the acidity of the soil from autumn, bringing lime into the ground by spraying its powder at the rate of 300-500 g per square meter. Then the bed is dug up for the winter. The effect of lime persists for 6-8 years.



In autumn, before plowing the soil, it is recommended to fertilize the beds under the table beet with intermittent manure or compost. Applying fresh manure as fertilizer is contraindicated, because it will negatively affect the harvest.

What kind of fertilizer for beets is used to get a rich harvest?

1. 15 days after sowing, the first fertilizer for beets is prepared: 2 cups of wood ash are diluted in 10 liters of heated water. This solution moistens the beds. To saturate the soil with sodium, 1 tsp of ordinary or sea salt is added to the water.
2. Organic ash can fertilize beds, sprinkling them with the earth at the rate of 0.5 cups per square meter. Then the soil is loosened and generously watered with water.
   
   
   
   
3. After the first thinning, the shoots are watered with heated water, dissolving 10 g of potassium salt and 5 g of superphosphate in it. The resulting solution of fertilizers is irrigated between rows.
4. At the stage of plant development in 4-5 leaves, beds with beets are watered with a mixture of boric acid in combination with potassium permanganate. 1 tsp of each drug is dissolved in 10 liters of settled water, and then watered it between rows, using up to two liters of liquid per linear meter. In August, watering with boric acid and permanganate should be repeated.
   
   
   
   
5. In July, beets are recommended to be fed with nitroammopho. For this purpose, 50 g of fertilizer is dissolved in 10 liters of warm water, and then poured it between rows. The gardens are then filled with water.

Fertilizer for beets As a natural fertilizer, bird droppings are used. First, it is insisted on water in a proportion of 1 to 2, and then diluted 100 ml of weight in 10 liters of water and moisten it between rows. Prepare organic fertilizer for beets from crushed remains of cultivated plants and weeds. They are put in a barrel and one part of water is added to two parts of plant waste. Then the container is covered with a lid and left for two weeks so that the plants decompose. For fertilization, 1 liter of the formed tincture is added to a bucket of water and the soil is watered with this liquid.



Fertilize the garden with infusion of cow manure. The ripened manure is poured with water and allowed to infuse. One glass of prepared liquid is added to a bucket of water and the soil between rows is watered with a solution.

With any method of feeding, you should know the measure and observe the proportions. From an excess of fertilizer plants can suffer and even die. To achieve a good harvest, you need to adhere to the principle of crop rotation. At the same place, dining beets are sown after 3-4 years.



Suitable precursors for beets are: potatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, legumes and cereals. Do not advise her to plant after rapeseed, sunflower, sugar and fodder beets.

Try to maximize the use of organic fertilizers when growing table beets (and other vegetables), then you will collect a rich harvest from the beds, the quality and benefits of which do not have to doubt.