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High summer. All the sowing and planting has already been completed, the time has come to create conditions for the plants to harvest. If it is impossible to do without treatments against pests and diseases in large-scale farms, environmentally friendly products can be obtained in private farms. How to grow beets so that both its tops and roots are healing? How to care for beets in July and later? How to get tasty healthy root vegetables? The answers to these questions are.
What does a plant need and signs of starvation
At different periods of growth, beets need different dishes on the menu. Permanent requirements will be watering and loosening the soil. In a well-filled ground, top dressing may have a corrective role. But if the vegetable is planted in an acidic soil with a dense layer, constant monitoring and adjustment of development will be required.
Proceed from the fact that in July, the plant should form a rosette of leaves and lay the beginning of the filling of the root. August is considered the final month of the formation of the fruiting body and the accumulation of useful substances in it.
During the cultivation of beets, it requires fertilizing with table salt or sodium nitrate. In this case, the root becomes sweet.
But at any time the plant should not need nutrition. The condition of the plant will show signs of ailments, and how to deal with them is well known.
- If the beets have yellow spots on the tops of the beets, this may indicate a lack of potassium. It should be watered under the root, spreading a glass of lime and 4 spoons of potassium chloride in 10 liters of water.
- The plant has reddened, which means a lack of sodium. Requires watering beets with salt water. Dilute a tablespoon of salt in a watering can and gently pour it under the root. And then sprinkle the ground with ashes.
- Small leaves and weak growth of tops - it's time to give a nitrogen fertilizer. If the earth is acidic, then natural root infusions of chicken or cow dung at the beginning of development can save the root.
In addition to local supplements used as needed, you must include mandatory supplements in the maintenance of beetroot in July. These include two supplements in July with nitrogen-potassium fertilizers. Between them it is necessary to perform foliar feeding with microelements in the complex. For the formation of sugars and chlorophyll in the leaves need iron and magnesium. Sulfur is a component of proteins, boron prevents the formation of voids and decay. Molybdenum prevents the accumulation of nitrates in the root, and copper and zinc are involved in photosynthesis and protect the root from diseases.
To obtain the full range of the necessary elements, you can use special fertilizer mixtures - Agricola-4, Mortar or trace elements in tablets. Usually in the finished mixtures there is no boron and molybdenum, they need to be included additionally.
Comprehensive introduction of these elements is necessary in July and August. Separately, it is required to spray plants with boric acid two or two times 2-3 times per season. It is important that the last processing took place in the first half of August. This will allow us to assimilate the microelement and ensure the safety of the roots.
How to fertilize beets in July is decided depending on the soil on which the crop grows. Fertile soil will require a small adjustment of the soil composition, applying Kemir wagon fertilizer or beetroot Kemira, which is simply scattered in the aisle and closed up when loosening. Wood ash can be used at any stage of plant development. It repels insects and adds trace elements and potassium to the soil.
If the soil is poor, then use the composition of ammonium nitrate( 7-9 g) and potassium sulfate( 5-7 g) per square meter. But after it requires abundant watering, 20 liters per unit area. You can use the infusion kuryak in the ratio of 1:10, but pour only in the grooves, not touching the roots.
Watering beets in open ground should ensure constant soil moisture and water consumption increases with the development of the leaf apparatus. By the end of July, the root crop should be the size of a walnut. At this time, excess plants are removed and 10 cm are left between the roots.
Beet care in August
August is the final month of beet bed care and the most crucial period for the accumulation of nutrients in the root. This month is fertilized with phosphate and potash fertilizers. Knowing that a month before the harvesting of root crops, any feeding and watering stop, you need to calculate the time of the last action.
In early August, it is obligatory to feed plants with trace elements on a green leaf. At the same time, you need to scatter a glass of ash and a spoonful of salt per square into the furrows, loosen the soil to a depth of 7 cm. After this, perform a deep watering. Ash fertilizer will supply the plant with potassium in the desired form for quick absorption.
The resulting power and water-charging irrigation should provide a filling of the root. The use of nitrogen fertilizers during this period will lead to the accumulation of nitrates and worsen winter storage. It is necessary to clean the beets with the onset of frost. Root crops without light rings and the size of a golf ball are considered optimal in taste.
The smallest amount of nitrates is found in conical root vegetables. Most of the nitrogenous substances near the rosette of leaves. When eating round beets should be cut to 1/3 of the top.
So, the main nutrients for plant development are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. At the same time, during the season, the following amount of fertilizers is applied in total per square meter of soil:
| Soil type | Nitrogen, g | Phosphorus, g | Potassium, g |
| Sod-podzol. | 12-15 | 6-8 | 15-18 |
| Floodplaces | 22-30 |
On the basis of the initial refueling of the soil, it is possible to calculate how much fertilizer needs to be applied during summer dressing for the crop.
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