Carrots - the most popular crop on beds. It is used for cooking various dishes and preparations, eaten fresh. Despite the long history of cultivation and a large range of varieties to grow high-quality root crops can not please everyone.
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secrets
Growing carrots begins its sowing. To get good germination, experienced gardeners use some secrets:
- By sowing the early summer harvest and consumption begin as soon as the ground thaws and it can be loosened. Carrots germinate for a long time and is resistant to cooling and freezing. For pipping seeds need plenty of water, which remains in the soil only in the early spring. Often the seeds sown even in the winter to spring, they began to germinate as soon as possible.
- If carrots sown at a later date (for winter storage, since mid-May), is to enrich the soil moisture before planting the most thoroughly watered every furrow. At 1 meter with 10 liters of water consume.
- Slow and disjointed carrot seed germination due to the presence of the essential oil coated seeds. To remove it, and make the appearance of germs mass, before sowing grain soak in hot water (+50... + 60 ° C). On the selection of ester shows strong flavor. Withstand the seeds in water takes about 20 minutes and then dry them, returning the flowability. Such seeds can not be stored, and the processing is carried out directly before sowing.
- Small seeds are difficult to sow evenly. To make things easier, the seeds are mixed with sand in a ratio of 1: 2. Sprinkle their furrows need Sol finger movements, prisypaya wet ground with a thin layer of sand with seeds. Then close up the furrow with soil to 1 cm. Watering from above it is not necessary: soil moisture is sufficient to pipping, and watering will create a crust through which germs will be harder to break.
Care
Under the carrot beds withdrawn place where humus or manure was introduced 1-2 years ago. For fresh organic culture reacts negatively, giving branched low-quality root vegetables. To carrots grew large and flat, the soil should be dug carefully, giving it to the looseness a minimum depth of 25 cm and make a complex mineral fertilizer for root crops for instructions the drug.
Caring for carrots after emergence is watering and thinning. Even with the use of sand at sowing of the seed falls too tightly. When the shoots appear 3-4 true leaves, some bushes must be removed, leaving a 2-3 cm between them.
A second decimation is performed, when the thickness of carrot root crops reach 1 cm. These vegetables can already be used in food. Thinning is carried out, leaving between the bushes of 5-6 cm. For large-late-varieties (Red giant and its hybrids Queen fall and so on.) Can be left up to 7 cm.
Thinning is carried out after a heavy rain or abundant watering, to injure smaller clumps which are left in the garden. If damaged central carrot root grows "horny".
You can not leave plucked carrot bushes in the garden: the fragrance of foliage and root crops will attract many pests (carrot fly, slugs, etc.). Tops carry a compost heap in the garden. It is also possible to feed domestic animals or birds, young greens dried and used as a condiment.
To repel pests planting carrots "enclose" low-growing marigolds, calendula, peppermint. If the autumn is exposed at the tip of the root vegetables, sprinkle it with soil, so that the slugs do not damage the crop for storing.
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