Detroit beet variety - mid-season and very productive
Detroit beets, bred in Italy, have a very high yield and excellent taste. Root vegetables have a lot useful properties.
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Description of Detroit beet variety
Beet has smooth round crimson roots, with a short and thin axial root, no rings are visible. Its mass is on average 100-200 grams.
It is quite juicy and very sweet.
Detroit beets are eaten fresh and canned. Its composition: dry matter - 17.6-20.4%, total sugar 12.3-14.2%. It is harvested at 350-600 kg per hundred square meters, that is, it has a higher yield than the Bordeaux 250 variety.
Her harvest is stable, the roots themselves look similar to each other. Has good immunity to various diseases, perfectly tolerates frost and cold spring. This is a mid-season variety, that is, the time from germination to harvest is about 110 days.
Growing conditions
The soil must be dug up in advance to a depth of 25 cm, humus or rotted manure must be added. If you plant beets in the soil, which has increased acidity, then add ash, dolomite flour or lime to the ground. The plant grows poorly on soils where it used to grow cabbage or carrot, but feels great in the ground where he grew up before potato, cucumbers, onion.
The plant grows well both outdoors and in greenhouses.
Beets are planted in April. Deepen it in ordinary soils by 3 cm, and in peat by 5 cm. The most optimal temperature for it is 15-20 ° C. You need to carefully shed the grooves, taking 10 buckets of water for 20 m.If you are sowing on a flat surface, then you need to make two-line ribbons.
You need to choose a place that is sunny, but with good humidity. The soil can be black soil or loam, but the soil should not be acidic, but neutral.
Reproduction
Beets are planted seeds or seedlings, but if planted with seedlings, then it is more often sick and more sensitive to temperature fluctuations.
Seed preparation options:
- Soak the seeds in warm water for a day, the water must be replaced 2-3 times. After the seeds are dried.
- A rag soaked in water is placed in a saucer in two rows. Place 50-100 seeds on it, cover them with another damp cloth. The saucer is placed in a warm place, the air temperature should be 18-25 ° C. The rags should be damp. After 4 days, the seeds are planted in well-shed soil.
- Seeds for vernalization, put in an enamel pan 3-4 cm and pour them 50 g of water, and after 32 hours add another 50 g. After the seeds should germinate at a temperature of 15-20 ° C, they are covered with a damp cloth so that it does not touch them and mix. So they are left for 2-4 days. Then the seeds are poured into a box in a layer up to 3 cm and placed in a cold room for 10 days.
- It is necessary to make grooves with a distance of 20-25 cm.
- The seeds are stuck in after 15 cm.
- Watered and covered with soil by 3 cm.
- Then mulch peat or vermiculite.
- The first shoots rise in 5-6 days at an air temperature of 4-5 ° C.
It is recommended to mix beet seeds with spinach seeds when sowing, as many weeds can grow, which will inhibit the growth of beets. When the first shoots of beets appear, the spinach is removed or left for a month. After it is collected.
Care Tips
Until the roots are formed, the beets are watered very intensively, and then - once a week. During the formation of root crops, it is watered at the rate: 15 liters of water per 1 sq. m. After glaze the earth is loosened. Care must be taken that the ground is not very dry and not excessively wet.
A month before harvesting, they stop moistening the earth.
Beet feeding Detroit:
- Potassium is fed once every 2 weeks.
- At the second feeding contribute to 1 sq. m potash fertilizers 16-20 g.
- Nitrogen is fed after thinning 1-2 times. It is recommended to sprinkle the beds with ash.
The first thinning is done after 2 leaves have grown, the grass and weak shoots are removed by 1-2 centimeters. The second time is thinned out after the formation of 4 leaves. After the last thinning in August, the distance in the row between the beets should be 8-10 cm. So timely removal weedsKeeping the soil moist and loose is the key to a great harvest.
More information can be found in the video.