If you want to grow radish in a pot instead of planting it in the garden. You should definitely try this easy method. Horticulture Department official Sanjay Bhagat has explained the best way to prepare radish in pots. Which variety of radish should you buy? In how many days should irrigation be done? You will also be able to see the method of treating diseases biologically in the video.
Experts of the Horticulture Department have told that there are many varieties of radish. In which many leafy varieties live. There are varieties with many tubers. The entire process from soil preparation to tuber extraction has been explained by the expert in the video.
soil preparation
Soil will have to be filled in the pot in 3 parts, in which one part will be soil. One part will be cow dung or compost and one part will be light sand. If you fill the pot with loamy soil, you can grow radish by mixing it with cow dung manure. After the soil is prepared, radish seeds have to be sown 1-1.5 cm inside the soil.
Radish variety
Among radish varieties, Ushachetaki and Nirmalshed spinach leaves, these two varieties are being planted more these days. Whereas Nirmalset comes in two varieties with DRD 45 and 48, 48 is for tubers and 45 can be used for vegetables.
how to irrigate
After the preparation of the soil, the seeds should be sown, immediately after this, water will have to be carefully poured from the Hazara. While irrigating water, you will have to take care that the seeds should not come on top of the soil, you will have to irrigate with light hands with the help of Hazara. Water irrigation will have to be done at an interval of 8-10 days.
sunlight is necessary
Radish cultivation is mostly done during extremely cold days. For which you have to keep in mind that radish gets sunlight for at least 5 to 6 hours. So that the radish plant can make its own food.
How to treat diseases
Horticulture Department official Sanjay Bhagat said that growing radish in small quantities mostly does not cause diseases, he advised that most pesticides should not be used, but diseases should be treated organically. Organic treatments like neem oil, turmeric water should be adopted.
Tuber is formed in one and a half months
The official of the Horticulture Department said that it takes about one and a half month for radish to be ready, but you can eat both the tuber and the vegetable together within 20 to 25 days. But the tuber can grow completely only in a month and a half.
