Beetroot planting and care in the open field before winter

Sowing beets in spring is quite common for most gardeners, and usually does not raise questions, but planting beets before winter is not so common. Meanwhile, podwinter sowing has many advantages over spring sowing. Maybe you will like this option more?

Winter planting of beets - where to start?

Pros of planting beets before winter:

In regions with short summers, sowing beets in winter is the best option.

• in the winter months, beet seeds are provided with natural hardening, which will have a beneficial effect on their viability - the seeds are more resistant to diseases, lack of watering and to spring frosts;
• beets are distinguished by extended germination periods, and during wintering, a dense shell swells faster in seeds, and germination is much better;
• beet shoots appear early, which means that the harvest can be harvested much earlier (just when last year's beet stocks come to an end);
• beets sown before winter develops regardless of the weather - if the spring sowing has to be postponed due to cold weather, then the seedlings of winter sowing will continue to grow;
• having carried out all the planting work in the fall, you will noticeably relieve yourself of the spring period and will be able to devote more time to the rest of the gardening business.

In regions with short summers, sowing of beets in winter becomes the most optimal option, since with normal planting, the roots simply do not have time to fully ripen. The ground warms up late, sometimes it is necessary to sow beets in the ground in early June, in addition, after the obligatory thinning, plant growth slows down until the roots are restored. As a result, before the autumn frosts, root crops do not always grow to the required size, and there is no way to accelerate the development of beets. Therefore, in order not to be left completely without a crop, it is safer to sow beets before winter.

Video about growing beets

In order for the seeds to withstand the autumn low temperatures well and do not give many flower arrows instead of root crops, you need to choose varieties that are suitable for winter sowing. The best are the mid-season varieties Cold-resistant-19 and Podzimnyaya-474. These varieties are specially designed for autumn planting - they are characterized by increased cold resistance and are not prone to shooting.

Much also depends on the correctly chosen place for the garden: good, intensely colored root crops are obtained in illuminated areas with deep groundwater. If the waters come close, form beds with a height of at least 25 cm. Also, the soil in the selected area should not be clayey and too acidic.Excess acidity can be eliminated by liming the earth during digging with dolomite flour, chalk, lime or wood ash.

Much also depends on the correctly chosen place for the garden.

It is recommended to grow beets after tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, cucumbers and onions. You should not sow seeds after carrots, cabbage, and also cultivate beets in the same place, otherwise the land will be greatly depleted, and pathogens and pests will accumulate in it.

Having bought the seeds of the desired variety, and having chosen the best place for the garden, proceed to seedbed preparation:

• prudently remove all roots of perennial weeds from the ground, otherwise they will prevent beet seedlings from growing normally in spring;
• dig up the soil 25 cm and apply phosphorus-potassium fertilizers, as well as humus and ash;
• form a bed, level its surface with a rake;
• cut grooves 3 centimeters deep at intervals of 20 cm, without bringing them to the edge of the bed, otherwise it will wash out the rows with melt water.

In addition, prepare a nutritious loose soil with which you will fill the seeds. The composition may contain garden soil, sand and rotted compost in equal proportions. Store this mixture under a shed or in a shed before planting so that the soil remains dry so it will not freeze. Peat, which is necessary for mulching the beds, must also be stored in a dry place.

In addition, prepare a nutritious loose soil with which you will fill the seeds

Instructions on how to plant beets before winter

You can start sowing beets in winter from the beginning of November. Focus on the temperature: when it gets colder to 0 degrees, and the soil temperature drops to -4 degrees, you can start planting. There is no need to rush too much, since during the autumn warming, the seeds can germinate, and then, with the onset of regular frosts, all the seedlings will die.

Some gardeners start sowing beets in winter according to popular belief - after the leaves fall from the cherry.

The main rule for podzimny sowing - dry seeds are planted in dry soil. If the bed is already covered with snow, sweep it away with a broom. Spread the seeds into grooves, leaving 10 cm between them. Sprinkle the rows with the prepared nutrient mixture on top and mulch with peat in a layer of 3 cm. Watering the beets during winter sowing is not necessary.

To guarantee protection of plantings from winter frosts, you can additionally cover them for the winter with fallen leaves, needles or sawdust, and sprinkle them with snow on top.

You can start sowing beets in winter from the beginning of November.

Important nuances for winter sowing

In the spring, immediately after the snow melts in the beds, the shelter of the beets from sawdust and needles will need to be removed so that the sprouts will sprout better. Lightly loosen the top layer of the soil, apply nitrogen fertilizer for the rapid growth of beets and cover the bed with a film - this way you will speed up the ripening of the crop for another week. But do not forget to remove the film as soon as single shoots appear.

Regardless of the sowing time and how many seeds you sow, the beet seedlings will need to be thinned out a week after they emerge. This is especially necessary if you have sown more seeds for greater confidence. The fact is that more than one sprout usually emerges from each seed, and in order to prevent crowding in the garden, only the strongest plants are left.

Otherwise, the care for the beets sown in the fall will be exactly the same as for the table beets, which were planted in the spring. It is very important to regularly water the plantings so that the roots do not crack from lack of moisture, and from time to time to loosen the ground, eliminating weeds.

Video about growing beets along the edge of the garden

Keep in mind that beets planted before winter are not intended for long-term storage. It is grown for the purpose of consumption in the summer, when the root crops of spring sowing have not yet had time to ripen.

You can determine that the time has come to harvest the beets by the main features characteristic of this culture: wilted and yellowed tops, as well as root crops that have reached the size characteristic of the variety.

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What can a summer resident do in the garden in the fall? Plant the next harvest! October - November are the optimal months for sowing vegetables before winter in the Moscow region. What are the advantages of such a landing? By sowing seeds in late autumn, you get a harvest two to three weeks earlier than the rest of the lazy summer residents! Planting beets before winter is no exception. In addition, you significantly reduce the spring work time. And the simplicity of the agrotechnical conditions for growing beets helps you with this.

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Benefits of sowing beet seeds for the winter

• The seeds are naturally hardened in the soil during the winter period.
• They are more resistant to frost that occurs in early spring.
• Also, such seeds are less susceptible to disease.
• The ripening time of the root crop will seem to you less long, since in winter you do not think about your plantings.
• There is no need to pickle seeds, soak them in advance. They are sown dry.
• Don't worry about dry and warm spring. The snow during the melting period will do everything for you.

Beet harvest in early spring

It is important to know 5 rules for planting beets before winter

1. You are choosing the right sowing time. The end of October - the beginning of November is a good choice!
2. The air temperature reaches minus two - four degrees Celsius - plant it boldly even if there is snow.
3. Soil temperature: plus two to four degrees.
4. The number of sown seeds will be 25-30% more than for the spring one.
5. Preferred varieties of beets for winter planting are cold-resistant early maturing, resistant to the formation of arrows.

Remember: beets planted in the fall will not last long.. Therefore, plant spring varieties for long-term keeping vegetables in a cellar or basement in winter. They are more resistant to prolonged storage.

Autumn beets are useful as an early harvest for salads, dressings, soups. It is preserved for the winter. You will be able to save time when harvesting and preserving the main harvest in the fall. You did everything in the early summer. Read also the article: → “How to plant beets before winter? Terms, features of care for different regions (Urals, Siberia, Southern region, Moscow region) ".

Preparing the soil for sowing autumn beets

It is important to understand that spring sowing differs from autumn sowing in three main principles:

• sowing is carried out mainly in warm beds
• we plant seeds in dry soil without pre-treatment
• we make a film shelter

Choosing a place for planting beets

First of all, you need to choose the right spot in your garden for planting beets.

• This vegetable should be sown in a well-lit area. In the shade, the root crop is formed much worse. The light also contributes to the intense coloring of the beets themselves.
• When choosing a site, it is worth remembering the crop rotation.Growing the same crop in one place dramatically depletes the soil. In such a land pests and diseases accumulate.

Tip # 1. It is correct to plant beets after onions, cucumbers, potatoes or tomatoes. But after the cabbage and the beets themselves, it is not recommended to plant it.

Instructions for making warm beds for sowing beets for winter in open ground

What needs to be done in order for your venture to succeed?

1. Decide on the place of the future warm garden. Make the markup. Dig a flat rectangular hole around the perimeter for the bayonet of the shovel. Install the side of the bed. This can be done from old boards, slate or other available material.
2. Observe the height of the wall from thirty to forty centimeters. Measure this distance from the edge of the pit. Install the wall supports in the form of fifty by fifty centimeters pegs.
3. The bottom of the pit must first be covered with cardboard. Then lay the cut branches of trees, old fallen leaves collected in the fall from the garden, the remaining grass, you can add compost.
4. Next, fill your hole with the first layer of earth. We spill each layer with a solution using water and Baikal Em1 and sugar.

The composition of the nutrient solution for watering the layers of a warm bed:

1. We take a two hundred liter barrel filled with warm water.
2. We pour in one hundred fifty - one hundred eighty milliliters of Baikal Em1.
3. Pour in two tablespoons of refined granulated sugar.

Spilled with a solution, again brought in withered leaves, sawdust, small twigs. The second layer of earth with the addition of ash and dolomite flour, which will cover the entire contents, must again be spilled with an aqueous nutrient solution. The penultimate layer consists of straw.

Lay it on the garden bed thirty centimeters high. Cover with earth. Shed. Tamp. After applying the last layer of earth, in the amount of thirty to forty centimeters, there is no need to spill the garden bed.

A warm bed is ready. Now she needs time to settle down, warm up with the last rays of the sun. In time, this process will take a week and a half.

It is not recommended to use the remains of cultivated plants from your garden for warm beds. They contain bacteria and pests, which will adversely affect the further yield of the crops planted here.

Alternative to warm beds when sowing beets

If you do not want to use warm beds on your site, plant beets before winter in regular ones. The first step is to dig the ground in the fall (September is ideal) to a depth of thirty-five to forty centimeters. This is necessary so that the beet root does not rest on a lump of earth or in hard soil that has not been dug. This will help you avoid gnarled root crops in the future.

The second step is to add dolomite flour in the amount of two hundred grams per square meter. Dolomite flour or lime is a soil deoxidizer. Why bring it in in the fall, you ask? The answer is simple: in acidic soil, the fruits will be small, they will not ripen to their size and mass.

Functions of dolomite flour: improves the structure of the fertile soil layer, normalizes acidity, reduces the number of weeds, saturates the soil with microelements.

Beets need neutral soil. And since all heavy calcium carbonates work for a very long time, you will get the desired result by the spring. If you deacidify the soil in the fall, then in the spring you already have a neutral pH soil for beets, carrots, cabbage, tomatoes and other vegetables that do not tolerate high acidity.

Then it is worth adding mustard cake. He copes well with the wireworm, and therefore with other underground inhabitants wintering in the soil. The amount of fertilizer applied is equal to the previous one. Functions of mustard cake: improves the structure of the earth and salt regime, activates biochemical processes, scares off mice, cleans the soil from wireworms, root rot.

Take the time, effort and money to make this top dressing. Mustard cake is the remnants of stems, seeds of a plant that will play the role of an excellent orderly for your garden.Remember, beets don't like chlorine! Therefore, potash fertilizers containing chlorine must not be used!Read also the article: → "Fertilizer for beets: when planting, in spring, in autumn," Bordeaux ".

It is recommended to dig up the fertilized soil with a pitchfork to the entire possible depth to the cutting. Know that when you dig deep, you are devastating all bacterial and pest communities. And at zero or negative air temperatures at night at this time of the year, they die.

Features of sowing seeds before winter

We level the dug soil with a rake and cut strips every thirty centimeters. They should be deeper than in spring sowing. The depth used is five centimeters. By the time of sowing, the soil will be slightly compacted and the depth of the grooves will be three to four centimeters.

Applying grooves according to the scheme

The beds prepared in this way remain in this position until the onset of frost. To prevent the furrows from being washed out by precipitation, cover the bed with a medium-density film and press it from the ends with stones or bricks.

Tip # 2. At the same time, consider preparing the soil in order to fill the furrows after sowing. It is better to store the earth in a warm room.

Choose your seeds wisely!

Autumn planting beets before harvest

After preparing your open field beds, you should consider choosing beet seeds to sow before winter. The varieties of varieties proposed below have already been tested by experienced summer residents. It is important to sow seeds of really proven varieties before winter, and not your own. When purchasing seeds, remember about pelleted ones. They are equipped with additional protection. Such a moment reduces the risk of poor germination and seed death.

Consider several options for varieties and their characteristics:

Variety name	Variety characteristics
Podzimnyaya - А474	Early ripe variety, rounded root crop, dark red color. Weight 220-330 grams. The pulp is smooth, juicy, without visible ring outlines. The variety is resistant to cracking, to the formation of peduncles and zirkoporosis. Ripens 60-90 days after germination. It is appreciated for its taste.
Cold resistant - 19	Medium ripe variety. The ripening period of the root crop is 65-75 days, weight 150-210 grams, smooth, dark red color. Resistant to frost and bloom.
Egyptian flat ( gardeners reviews)	Medium ripe variety. From germination to harvest - 95-115 days. The shape of the root crop is rounded - flattened. Distributed everywhere. The variety is successful for planting in the suburbs. Also not prone to the formation of peduncles and the formation of arrows.
Bordeaux ( gardeners reviews)	Root weight 110-210 grams with a diameter of 12-15 centimeters. Resistant to diseases, to the formation of arrows, to cold. The shape is rounded, red. The period of technical ripeness reaches 80-95 days. The variety is medium early, high-yielding. Resistant to drought and high temperatures.
Detroit ( gardeners reviews)	The shape of the root crop is round, the color is red, and the weight is 110-200 grams. Resistant to diseases, shooting and flowering. Frost resistant.
Polar flat Outdoor furniture-249	The variety is intended for sowing in the northern regions. The formation of root crops occurs on the 60 - 80th day of the field of the first shoots. Pest resistant, cold resistant. Beet shape - round - flattened, reminiscent of an ellipse.

The first snow outside the window - it's time to go to the beds

The last cherry leaves fell, the first ice crunched underfoot. It's minus two degrees outside. The time has come for sowing beet seeds. The main rule of winter sowing: dry seeds - in dry land.

Beet seeds before planting in the ground

Open the film, put it aside - it will still come in handy. Place the seeds in the prepared grooves according to the scheme. The distance between the rows should be at least thirty centimeters. Seven, and preferably eight centimeters, should recede between the seeds in the groove.

What are the advantages of such a landing?

1. Plants do not have to be thinned out and thereby injured.
2. Beets prefer airing.The distance you choose will allow air to flow naturally between the foliage.
3. Due to the natural breeze, the soil does not sour, the roots do not rot.
4. Parasites and ground pests will no longer spoil your tops, again due to the absence of excess moisture and the process of plant decay.
5. Weeding and loosening the beds while the beets are growing will not be so difficult.

Do not water! Cover the seed furrows with warm, pre-prepared loose soil. Then the soil is lightly tamped and mulched with dry peat. The filling layer should be about three centimeters. Cover the entire bed with plastic again and press down with something heavy. Such a simple method will allow you to protect the seeds from freezing during persistent frosts. Read also the article: → "Growing beets in the country."

The film will create a greenhouse effect on the garden bed and contribute to the natural accumulation of moisture. Another point: your shelter will not allow the snow to compact the ground too much. By the spring it will remain as lush as during the spring digging.

Tip # 3. Another option to protect the seeds from freezing is to cover the garden with pine needles or a thick layer of sawdust. This airbag also exists.

When the first shoots appear in the spring, do not forget to remove the film from the garden. Loose the soil between the rows. Apply a nitrogen-rich fertilizer. Such actions will help plants in their further growth and development. And then everything is as usual: observe the irrigation regime, regularly weed the beets and loosen the soil to enrich it with oxygen. You will be delighted with the harvest of autumn beets, rest assured!

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Foreword

Planting beets before winter has a number of advantages that distinguish it favorably from the traditional method. Why this is so and how to do the work correctly, we will talk below.

Why should you try planting before winter?

Beets are a very common vegetable in our area, which can be found in almost every summer cottage. This root vegetable has many useful properties and serves as an indispensable ingredient for the preparation of various dishes. There are two options for planting beets - in spring or before winter. The first method is well known and very popular, but the second raises many questions among novice gardeners.

Popular root vegetable in our area

The presented planting method guarantees earlier growth of crops and, accordingly, harvesting. And experienced gardeners say that by covering the seedlings with plastic wrap, the ripening period of the root crop can be accelerated by another couple of weeks! Also, when sowing beets in the winter, the problem of recurrent cold weather, which is dangerous during spring sowing, disappears. With this planting, the seeds become more resilient. They are less susceptible to various diseases, the effects of spring frosts or summer droughts.

If you organize the planting of beets for the winter, this greatly facilitates the work of the gardener in the spring. The presence of seeds in the soil during cold months promotes softening of the shell and ensures uniform germination and growth of crops. This method is ideal for areas with short and cool summers, where a root crop, planted using the traditional method (in spring), may simply not have time to form and produce a harvest.

Planting beets for the winter

When planting beets in winter, the seedlings feel comfortable and germinate regardless of weather conditions and temperature extremes. And the gardener himself can avoid lengthy preparation, which consists in soaking, drying and dressing the seeds. Beet varieties intended for winter crops are very unpretentious. They give good yields even when planted on clay and sandy loam soils.

When sowing beets before winter, you don't have to worry about a possible dry spring. Indeed, as the snow begins to melt, the seeds begin to swell and germinate using this natural moisture.Spring seedlings are often attacked by pests such as the cruciferous flea or carrot fly. And by organizing the planting of beets in the fall, you can protect the plant from such misfortunes, because during the germination of seedlings, these insects are still in seasonal hibernation.

What are the best varieties to sow?

We know about the advantages of the method, but do gardeners plant all kinds of beets before winter? It turns out that in order to get a favorable result, you need to decide on the variety of the planted crop. After all, some seeds, when they stay in the soil for a long time, form flower arrows and do not give any harvest, so let's find out what kind of beets can be planted before winter.

These are varieties specially developed for such sowing, and the most popular are the following: Podzimnyaya-474, Krasny Shar, Detroit, Gaspadynya, and Cold-resistant-19. The presented seeds are characterized by increased cold resistance, do not have a tendency to shoot arrows, tolerate frost well and have an excellent taste. For regions with harsh winters, special frost-resistant beet varieties are suitable, for example, Polar flat K-249 would be an ideal option in this case.

Frost-resistant vegetable varieties

When planning such a bed, the summer resident should know some more features. The beets sown in the fall are meant to be eaten in the summer and have a great taste, but such varieties are not subject to long-term storage. But you can always make preparations for the winter. Harvesting is recommended in dry weather, since root crops, when wet, can begin to rot and quickly deteriorate. You can determine that the beets have reached their maturity by the size of the root crop, yellowed and wilted leaves of the tops. Planting beets in the snow is a great option for gardeners looking to save time and ensure an early harvest.

What will be required of us in the fall?

Now it's time to figure out how to plant cold-tolerant beets before winter. The preparation consists of several key points. First you need to choose the most suitable place for crops. This business also has its own subtleties. Beetroot is considered a light-loving plant, so the place for planting this crop should be sufficiently sunny. In addition, intense exposure to ultraviolet rays will make the fruit more juicy and more vibrant in color.

Choosing a landing site

Also, when choosing a place for a future beet plantation, it is necessary to focus on the composition of the soil. Overly acidic or clayey soil is not recommended for planting. The occurrence of groundwater must be deep enough, otherwise it will be necessary to make high fill beds. You can plant beet seeds where cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes or onions previously grew. But the soil in which cabbage, carrots or beets themselves grew before is not recommended for such purposes.

When preparing the bed, it is necessary to thoroughly weed the area, clearing it of weeds. You can get rid of the acidity of the soil with the help of chalk, dolomite flour, wood ash or lime. After that, dig up the site of the future plantation to a depth of 20-25 centimeters. Then the soil should be well fertilized. For these purposes, it is recommended to use ash, organic humus, as well as special fertilizers with a high content of phosphorus and potassium. At the end of the preparatory treatment of the soil, level the surface with a rake.

Preparing the beds for sowing

Now it remains to find out how to plant beet seeds before winter. To do this, soak them for a day in a superphosphate solution (in a ratio of 1 tsp fertilizer per liter of water). When the indicated time has passed, remove the seeds, rinse them thoroughly and wrap them in a piece of damp gauze cloth. Place the resulting knot in a warm place and periodically moisten it with water. In a few days, the seeds will be ready to plant!

Learning to plant winter beets correctly

It remains to find out when to sow beet seeds before winter in order to calculate the timing of the preparatory measures described. Planting is done in mid to late November. In this case, one should be guided by the weather conditions. The optimum soil temperature for planting a seed is 3-4 degrees below 0. There is also a popular omen according to which the sowing of beets should be done after the leaves fall from the cherry trees.

Sowing beets before winter

Sowing seeds can only be done in dry soil. To begin with, form future beds and carefully level their surface. Then make grooves 3-4 cm deep. The distance between them should be about 20 cm. Sow the beet seeds into the furrows, covering them with a layer of loose soil, which you can make yourself by mixing garden soil, sand and compost. Then compact the soil well.

To protect the seeds from severe frosts, it is recommended to cover the beds with fallen leaves, sawdust and pine needles. From above, you can sprinkle the plantation with loose snow. The seeds do not need watering. This completes the landing!

What to do when spring comes?

Spring care for beets planted before winter is quite simple and consists of the following. As soon as the snow covers the soil, it will be necessary to remove the protective carpet of foliage, sawdust and coniferous branches from the beet beds. After that, slightly loosen the top layers of the soil and season it with nitrogen fertilizer. Then cover the plantations with plastic wrap. It is believed that this manipulation will not only protect the plant from external influences, but also accelerate its growth and emergence of seedlings. The cover is removed at the first shoots.

Covering the plantation with plastic wrap

When all the sprouts are born, it will be necessary to thin out the beds, leaving the strongest and strongest seedlings. The subsequent care of beets planted before winter is absolutely similar to the maintenance of this crop, but sown in the spring. To get a good harvest, you will need to take care of the plant, water the beds in a timely manner, weed them from weeds, periodically loosen the soil, and also protect the beets from garden pests.

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Those gardeners who believe that beets are thermophilic and can only be sown in spring have been misled. Beets are classified as cold-resistant crops that germinate at a temperature of 5-60 degrees Celsius, so it is quite possible to plant beets before winter, choosing the right varieties and sowing dates.

With this method of planting in spring, beets will not be afraid of recurrent frosts, will give more friendly shoots, they are not so afraid of summer drought. In addition, early shoots are protected from the attack of carrot flies and fleas, since at the time of beet growth the pests are still dormant.

The process of planting beet seeds for the winter

They begin to prepare the beds with the expectation that by the end of November or the beginning of December they are suitable for use:

1. They try to arrange the beds on a hill protected from the wind, towards the south and with a slight southern slope, so they will be better warmed up by the sun and dried.
2. Digging into a shovel bayonet, 4-6 kg / m2 of compost or rotted manure is simultaneously introduced, adding 70 g of potassium sulfate and 50 g of superphosphate. Fresh manure for this crop is not applied.
3. The site is leveled, breaking clods and mixing fertilizers, forming beds, making holes up to 4 cm deep. After soil shrinkage, the grooves will become shallower.
4. Before the onset of stable frosts, the beds are covered with a film or covering material to protect them from rain and snow, and they wait for the moment when it will be possible to plant beets before winter.

It has been experimentally established that an increased yield is produced by beets scattered in the already frozen ground.In the meantime, dry loose soil is harvested, which needs to be sprinkled on crops.

How to set the dates for winter sowing of beets?

If the seeds are sown ahead of time, cold-resistant varieties will germinate, and after the onset of frost they will die. Choosing the right time is probably the hardest part of sowing in the winter. Depending on the regions, the dates stretch from late October to mid-December.

Experienced gardeners are guided by the following signs: when the temperature drops to - 4-5 degrees at night, the soil freezes, and during the day it can rise to 0 - plus 10 and thaws a little, it's time to sow. But, to be sure, you can wait two weeks.

Seeds must be sown dry, covered with pre-prepared loose fertile soil, slightly compacted, a layer of sawdust, fallen leaves, needles is poured on top. Planting of beets in the fall before winter is completed.

Beet varieties suitable for sowing in the fall

So that the work of the gardener does not turn out to be in vain, it is important to choose seeds that, under the influence of cold temperatures, will be resistant to shooting (there is no ejection of peduncles at all or its percentage is very low, single specimens), the varieties must be early maturing, frost-resistant.

What are they, the best varieties of beets for planting in the fall before winter? Some of them:

Cold resistant 19 - an early variety that can withstand recurrent frosts, ripening period up to 100 days, high taste, fruitful;

Bordeaux 237 - mid-season, 80-90 days pass before selective harvesting, full harvesting can be started after 120 days after germination, the variety is slightly prone to shooting;

Podzimnyaya A-474 - mid-early, technical ripeness of fruits occurs 100-105 days after germination, is famous for good keeping quality during storage, good taste;

Pablo F - mid-early hybrid, selectively the fruits can be selected 65-70 days after germination, is characterized by high keeping quality, excellent taste, with red-burgundy sweet pulp;

Egyptian flat - medium ripening period, appreciated for stable yield, good taste, resistance to shooting;

Polar flat K-249 - specially selected for regions with a cold climate, it is characterized by stable resistance to cold weather, shooting, pest rootworm.

The degree of maturity of the beets is determined by the size of the root crop, the lower leaves of the tops wither and dry out. In this state, beets are pulled from the beds, eaten or used for processing.

Features of planting beets in the fall

Seeds for podzimnogo sowing try to choose the largest, crops are made more thickened: it is better to pull out excess seedlings in the spring than to fiddle with half-empty beds.

Beet varieties for planting before winter do not have such a long storage period as in spring sowing, they provide an opportunity to consume vegetables at an earlier date and are suitable for processing and canning.

The distance between the rows should be 20 cm, at least, in a row per linear meter, up to 2 g of seeds are needed. It is better to remove the shelter from the beds before the snow completely melts, so that the seeds can be sufficiently saturated with moisture. If you put arcs on the garden in advance, sprinkle the snow with ash or potassium permanganate in spring to speed up its melting, then cover the planting with a film, the harvest can be obtained another 10 days earlier.

Video about sowing beets for the winter

If you still have doubts and questions, watch this video, which tells about planting beets in the fall: