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Among the varieties of daikon, you can choose early-ripening (40-50 days), mid-ripening (60-80 days) and late-ripening (90-120 or more days).
Daikon is sown in well-moistened soil, 2-3 seeds in each hole, which are dug at a distance from each other. After planting, the bed is mulched with peat. When shoots appear, they are thinned out, leaving the most developed sprout in each nest.
Planting: sowing seeds in open ground - in July or August; sowing seeds for seedlings - in the second half of March, planting seedlings in the garden - at the stage of formation of two pairs of true leaves.
Watering: regular and sufficient: the soil on the site must be kept slightly moist at all times. The first watering - after the emergence of shoots, then the soil is moistened once every five days, and even more often in dry times.
When two or four true leaves appear, daikon seedlings need to be thinned out. Leave the one strongest plant out of the three that have come up. The rest can be transplanted to another bed. Over the summer, the soil in rows and aisles will have to be loosened 2-3 times, starting from the moment the seedlings are thinned.