For early spring and winter sowing, Podzimnaya beet is ideal. This is a cold-resistant mid-early variety that bears fruit maroon root crops without rings. They have excellent taste and are great for heat treatment, as they persistently maintain their pleasant color.
Winter beet A 474
Winter beet A 474 has juicy sweet pulp
Winter beet A 474 tolerates frosts well
Grade description
Beet Podzimnaya A 474 bred at the All-Russian Research Institute of Selection and Seed Production of Vegetable Crops. Since 1952, the variety is recommended for cultivation in several regions:
- Northwest;
- Central;
- Volga-Vyatka;
- Central Black Earth;
- Middle Volga.
Culture is valued for its taste and marketability. More details about its characteristics can be found in the following table:
Parameter | Description |
Ripening time | The variety is medium early - from the first seedlings to technical ripeness, 55-101 days pass. |
Leaf plate outlet | The bushes are semi-persistent and powerful. The leaves themselves are heart-shaped, have an elongated shape and a dark green color, pigmentation appears on them by autumn. Petioles in length reach 25-35 cm and acquire a deep pink-red color. |
Roots | Podzimnaya beet at the end of the growing season forms small heads with the following parameters:
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Appointment | The variety is recommended for cultivation in early spring and winter crops. It is advisable to use mature table root vegetables in cooking for processing and canning. After heat treatment, they do not lose their original color. |
Keepiness | Podzimnaya beets can be grown for long-term storage. In favorable conditions, the heads can lie until the next season, and without spoiling the taste and marketability. |
Productivity | The variety is valued for high productivity - 1 sq. Km. m beds will be able to collect up to 6.5-7 kg of fruit. |
Sustainability | The culture is cold-resistant, therefore it tolerates frosts and low temperatures. The variety also exhibits relative resistance to cercosporosis and flowering. Root crops themselves are not susceptible to cracking. |
Briefly about the characteristics of the variety the representative of the AgroMERA laboratory tells in the video below:
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety
Podzimnaya beets - one of the best options for sowing in the fall. It has the following advantages:
- It eliminates the need to pre-soak the seeds, as well as to carry out other manipulations for their pre-sowing treatment - pickle with special preparations and dry for a long time. The fact is that a cold-resistant culture undergoes natural hardening right in the ground during the winter months. Thanks to this, young sprouts stably tolerate possible spring frosts, and also become immune to diseases and lack of watering.
- Gives an earlier harvest than varieties planted in the spring after frost. During wintering, the dense shell swells faster at the seeds, due to which germination is much more active. This provides earlier emergence of seedlings.
- It develops in any weather, therefore, the sowing dates do not have to be postponed, as is the case with varieties for spring cultivation, seedlings of which can lag behind in growth due to cold weather.
- With autumn sowing, it allows you to unload the spring period in order to devote more time to other vegetable crops.
There were no deficiencies in the variety, therefore, many gardeners choose it for sowing in their personal plot.
Sowing dates
Podzimnaya beet seeds can be sown open twice a year:
- Fall. Sowing work should be carried out at a soil temperature of -4 ... -2ºC. At this point, the air temperature may drop to 0ºC. As a rule, similar conditions are established in late October - mid-November. In early spring, when the frost recedes, and the temperature warms up to 10ºC, the seeds sown before winter will give the first seedlings. Early production can be collected at the end of June.
- In the spring. Given the cold resistance of the culture, gardeners sow seeds in early spring - from late April to early May. By this time, the soil should warm up to + 8 ... + 10ºC. You can sow beets immediately after carrots.
Podzimnaya beets can be grown through seedlings to accelerate the production of mature root crops for 2-3 weeks. In this case, seeds should be sown at the end of April in order to transplant hardened seedlings into open ground in a month.
Agricultural technology
Compliance with the simple rules of agricultural technology will allow you to successfully grow maroon root crops of beet Podzimney:
- Sowing seeds is best on rich, fertile soils with a slightly acidic or neutral reaction. The best option is loam and clay areas. On heavy soils, the vegetable should be grown on beds.
- It is better to cultivate beets in areas where such crops grew last season:
- early potatoes;
- cucumbers
- zucchini;
- onion;
- pumpkin.
- The site for sowing beets needs to be prepared in advance: dig in the autumn, add humus and lime if necessary, and in the spring - feed with complex mineral fertilizers.
- To powder the grooves with seeds, prepare in advance nutrient soil with a loose structure. A well-proven mixture of garden soil, sand and rotted compost. It is worth preparing peat in advance, which is useful for mulch beds. It must be collected in bags or buckets and hidden in a shelter with soil for planting beets.
Sowing pattern and depth
At pre-established dates, you need to conduct sowing events, following the following instructions:
- Level the surface of the beds. If the first snow lies in the garden, be sure to clear it with a hard broom.
- Prepare grooves with a length of about 20 cm without leaving the edges of the beds, otherwise they may be destroyed by possible rainfall. Here is the optimal sowing pattern:
- intervals between grooves in a row - 8-10 cm;
- row spacing - 25-30 cm;
- sowing depth - 2-4 cm.
- Throw seeds into the grooves and fill them with pre-prepared nutrient soil.
- Tamp the ground thoroughly and level, and then mulch with peat. The optimal layer of mulch is about 4 cm.
When winter sowing, the beds should be covered so that the seeds do not freeze in the winter. For these purposes, you can use needles, leaves or sawdust.
Landing care
Podzimnaya beets do not belong to the whimsical varieties, therefore it is enough to organize basic care for it in compliance with the following rules:
- in the spring, when the snow begins to fall from the garden, remove the shelter from improvised materials so that the fragile sprouts that appear can fully emerge and develop;
- after frosts, loosen the top layer of the earth and apply nitrogen-rich fertilizer, and then cover the bed with a film that needs to be removed as seedlings appear;
- with the development of 2 pairs of true leaves, conduct the first thinning of the seedlings, and when root crops reach a diameter of 2-3 cm - the second, increasing the distance between the bushes to 8-10 cm;
- as a dry crust forms, the bed should be watered, loosened and cleaned of weed vegetation.
Harvesting
When the tops of the plant wither and turn yellow, and the fruits gain the mass declared by the manufacturer, you can begin harvesting. This is a simple procedure, as root crops are only half submerged in the soil. It is enough to pull them out with your hands, after digging them up with a shovel. Harvested root crops should be dried in the open air, and then used as directed or put away for storage.
Grade Reviews
Anastasia Dmitrievna, 48 years old. I choose this variety only for planting in the winter, although it can still be grown in the spring. Root crops sprout perfectly, does not require special care. The main thing is to water and loosen the bed in time. The beets are maroon and devoid of rings. To taste it is very sweet and juicy, suitable for consumption for any purpose.
Margarita Ivanovna, 54 years old. To prepare a salad for the winter, I grow Podzimnaya beets. It does not lose color after heat treatment, but it also pleasantly reveals a sweet taste. Growing root crops is not difficult, but it is important not to miscalculate with the timing of sowing.
Irina Petrovna, 51 years old. Podzimnaya beets contain an increased amount of betaine, which helps lower blood pressure and improves fat metabolism. For this quality and give preference to this grade. Productivity pleases every year - from 1 square. m beds stably collect 5 kg of fruits that do not crack.
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Beet Podzimnaya A 474 is appreciated by gardeners for its quick ripening, cold resistance, high palatability and resistance to major diseases. It can be planted in early spring and before winter, and then provide basic care, so that approximately 100 days after the emergence of seedlings to collect dark red root crops of universal purpose.