When growing sugar beet as a re-crop after winter wheat harvest, seed wetting and encapsulation ensures even seedlings. And also, mineral fertilizers have a positive effect on the growth and development of plants. In the variant where sugar beet seeds after wetting were encapsulated with a mixture of 75% vermicompost and 25% soil with the use of mineral fertilizers at a rate of N200P150K200 kg/ha, the accumulation of dry matter, the number of seedlings and green mass was the highest.