Sometimes we remember the taste of young carrots, which we tear from the ground with our own hands, sweet seeds in firm pods of fresh peas, or the herbal smell of chopped parsley leaves or chives on a slice of buttered bread.These and other delicacies are still within reach, but provided that we have a few square meters of beds in a sunny place and we devote enough time to growing vegetables
A day or two before the planned sowing or planting, dig the soil as deep as possible, adding coarsely sifted compost or purchased, humus-rich, organic fertilizer. When choosing vegetable varieties, we follow our own preferences, but when looking at the colorful bags with seeds, let's also pay attention to the short period of germination and disease resistance.
Radishes, carrots and onions
In the vegetable patch, radishes and radishes ripen first. Early radishes with round roots with a thin dark red skin or oblong and snow-white roots are sown directly in the flower bed from the end of March.In inspekt or under a fleece, sowing and harvesting can be accelerated by up to two or three weeks.Very early varieties are 'Marabelle' and 'Cherry Belle HS'.
They also show high resistance to cracking and chipping. It is worth to cover the flower bed immediately after sowing with a fine mesh screen to protect it from rutabaga cream. Carrots and onions are not only a matched pair in the kitchen.
They can protect each other against pests on the flower bed. Carrot polysnica, the larvae of which feed on the flesh of the roots, hate the smell of onions. On the other hand, the smell of carrot leaves effectively scares off onion creamThe first carrot leaves may appear only three weeks after sowing, so its seeds should be mixed with fennel or chervil seeds.
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Herbs sprout faster, clearly marking the rows. Now we can weed weeds easily so that the young carrots have no competitors in obtaining nutrients and light.
Onions can be sown or planted. Spring onions, i.e. the one-year-old onion for planting, are less resistant to cold and we start growing them only in April.To protect against fungal diseases, sprinkle the flower bed with a decoction of horsetail shoots before sowing or planting onions.Then we only water the plants during longer periods of drought.
