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8 Vegetable
Root vegetables
Celery
No. of seeds per gram: 2,000-3,300
Seed quantity for sowing: 0.03-0.1 kg/ha = 1 g/100 m 2 (SEEDLING CULTIVA-
TION); 1.5 kg/ha (DIRECT SOWING)
Seed germinates:
20-25 days
Sowing time:
March-April (UNDER GLASS); May (OUTDOOR)
Transplanting time: May-June
Planting distance:
25-30 x 25-30 cm
Harvest time:
September-November
Content:
Essential oils, vitamins B
Good neighbours:
Beans, peas, brassicas (especially cauliflower), leek,
spinach, tomato, cucumbers, camomile
Therapeutic effects:
Beetroot
Has antibacterial and antifungal effects, eliminates digestive
problems, eliminates intestine laziness, disinfects the mucous
membrane, heals bladder infections and weakness, stimulates
the excretion of digestive juices from the mucous membrane
of the stomach, drains water from the body and helps losing
weight, strengthens the nervous system and soothes nerve
problems, takes care of healthy skin, eyes and hair.
Seed quantity for sowing: 12-20 kg/ha; 150-200 g/100 m 2
Seed germinates:
Sowing time:
Planting distance:
Harvest time:
Content:
Good neighbours:
Therapeutic effects:
Useful advice:
Radish
15 days
April-June
15 x 30 cm
July-October
Silicon, folic acid, betanin pigment (excretes with urine!)
Beans, brassicas, kohlrabi, garlic, onion, pumpkins, marrows
and squash, cucumbers, summer savoury, dill and cumin.
Builds connective tissues, has a positive effect on our wellbeing
(contributes to the feeling of happiness, optimism,
and courage), firms the skin, fingernails and hair, as well
as makes them shiny, neutralises and eliminates toxic
substances, stimulates cell growth, stimulates the creation
of red blood cells with which it improves the oxygen supply
of the cells, drains water and acids from the body, detoxicates
the intestines and diminishes constipation.
Young plants can be transplanted or cooked as vegetables
on butter. From September onwards, before the
cold, beetroot should be carefully plucked and stored in
the basement in moist sand with some leaf stems on. If
cooked, it can be preserved in vinegar or frozen in slices.
No. of seeds per gram: 100-160
Seed quantity for sowing: 50-80 kg/ha; 180-250 g/100 m 2
Seed germinates:
15 days
Sowing time:
January-April (HEATED GREENHOUSE), April-September
(OUTDOOR)
Planting distance:
Harvest time:
Good neighbours:
Content:
Therapeutic effects:
Useful advice:
5 x 15 cm
March-November
Beans, carrot, cress, lettuce, tomato, spinach, chard,
brassicas, kohlrabi, peas, cress.
Mustard oils, fibrins, folic acid, vitamin C, selenium.
It disinfects mucous membranes, prevents infections and
strengthens the immune system, protects the cells against
free radicals, is used as prevention against gallstones, as
well as against kidney and bladder stones, helps with constipation
and flatulence, lowers the quantity of fat and sugar in
blood, stimulates the nervous system and the brain, provides
nutritional substances for blood creation and cell growth.
Moist soil prevents hollowness, “lignification” and averts
pests. Radish does well in mixed crops, e.g., with a lettuce,
carrot, and cress, for garden bed borders and marked sowing
(with the carrot).
CROP ROTATION
225 - Celeriac Giant
Prague
The large bulbs are round
to flattened-round. The
flesh is creamy white and
tasty. Use the leaves and
bulbs. Can also be planted
on the edge of cucumber
beds.
CROP ROTATION IS ALTERNATING VEGETABLES IN TIME
SEQUENCES DURING A PERIOD OF SEVERAL YEARS.
With it, soil fertility and the health of our garden is
being preserved. In our home garden where there are
numerous vegetables and flowers planted on a smaller
area, we must rotate crops carefully and according to
the plan we have made. When rotating crops, the following
things should be taken into consideration: how
demanding certain vegetables are as to the usage of
nutritional substances from the soil (i.e., how heavily
certain vegetables exhaust the soil), how they are
affected by pests and diseases, how the vegetables
get along with each other (good neighbours vs. bad
neighbours) and how a certain vegetable gets along
with itself on the same garden bed (e.g., parsley
does not get along with itself so we must sow it on a
different garden bed every year, while a tomato prefers
growing on the same garden bed every year).
In the rough, the vegetables are distributed according
to their nutritional needs into three groups. In
the first group, there are very demanding vegetables
which need a lot of nutritional substances. Thus,
the garden beds in which they will grow well should
be well fertilised with solid dung or compost. These
vegetables are: almost all brassicas, cucumbers, marrows,
pumpkins, tomato, potato, leek, and celery. In
the second group, there belong demanding vegetables
which are the onion, garlic, carrot, beetroot, lettuce,
spinach, radishes, kohlrabi, pepper, melons, and sweet
corn. These vegetables need compost, particularly.
In the third group, there are modest vegetables like
beans, peas, corn salad, and most aromatic plants.
These should be fertilised extremely modestly.
257 - Beetroot
Agyptische
Plattrunde
Mid-early variety with
flattened-globe, dark red
root.
260 - Beetroot
Detroit 2
Mid-early variety with dark
red root for fresh market.
262 - Beetroot
Bikores
Medium-early, upright,
round, distinctly dark-red
beet for fresh use, preserving
and storing. Raw
beetroot juice is healthy!
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