REDIS

Redis are annual or biennial plants from the Radish genus of the Cabbage family. Radish from the point of view of classification - a group of varieties of the species Sowing radish

Radish is an edible plant and is grown as a vegetable in many countries around the world. Its name comes from lat. radix is ​​the root. Root vegetables are usually eaten, which have a diameter of 2.5 cm and are covered with thin skin painted in red, pink or white-pink. Radish root vegetables have a pungent taste. This typical radish flavor is due to the plant's mustard oil, which is converted to mustard oil glycoside under pressure.

By origin, there are European, Japanese and Chinese groups of varieties. According to the growing season, they are distinguished: Annual. Such a plant produces fruits and seeds in the year of sowing. Biennial. The plant produces a root crop in the year of sowing, and seeds only the next year. According to the sowing method, greenhouse and ridge (open ground) are distinguished. The shape of the root crop can be from flat-round to fusiform. The color of root crops can be pink, white, red, yellow, purple.

Radish is used as a vegetable crop almost everywhere. They eat both root vegetables (mainly in salads and okroshka) and foliage (in salads, okroshka, soups). Radish is valued as an early vegetable; in central and western Russia, it allows sowing in semi-warm greenhouses as early as March. In April, radishes can already be sown in the ground. Thus, the first harvest of greenhouse radish can be obtained already in April. The early ripening of radish fruits and the high content in it of a number of vitamins necessary for humans has led to the fact that radishes have become popular in those areas where people need to restore immunity after a fairly long winter. In addition, radishes tolerate transplanting well.

In addition to being eaten, radishes are also often used to mark the line of crops for other vegetable crops such as onions or carrots. Radish sprouts appear within 2-3 days, which allows the treatment of the beds even before the emergence of sprouts of other crops. Radish roots grow in 3-5 weeks.