Carrot plants almost every host on your plot. This undemanding plant, but it needs competent care. Proper planting carrots in open ground will provide the quantity and quality of the future harvest.
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Soil and site selection for planting
Beds for carrots cooked in the fall on a sunny open space. She loves loose and fertile soil. If the soil is heavy, it is necessary to add sand, it will make it breathable.
It is advisable to avoid those places where previously grown umbrella - dill, parsley, celery, sunflower. Ideal predecessors - potatoes, tomatoes, onions, garlic.
Flower bed dug to a depth of 30 cm, removing from it all weeds by the roots. After that, make humus and ash and again dug. Seedbed seeded green-manures - mustard and colza. They decompose in the soil, enriching it with microelements, humus, reduced fertility, air - and water permeability is not allowed to grow weeds. They do not like wireworms and nematodes.
Sowing the seeds of carrots and preparation
I sow carrots follows. In the spring, when the temperature rises to 15 degrees, and the night would not fall below 5 degrees, prepared fall beds with green-manures must be dug and smooth rake. For food it is necessary to sow the early varieties, and storage - middle and late.
To increase the germination rate, it is necessary to wash away essential oils, which are impregnated with the seeds. For this, their lowered into the fabric bag in a glass, pour hot water temperature 45-50 degrees and allowed to cool down completely. Drain the water and once again repeat this procedure. After that they poured on the cloth and allowed to dry. Before planting seed in the ground they are soaked in a solution of succinic acid for 12-24 hours. This will improve germination and improve the germination rate.
Carrot seeds from small, so it is better to stick to a thin (eg, toilet) paper using potato paste at a distance of not less than 2 cm from each other, allow to dry and fold the paper in roll. Before planting, they can be mixed with fine sand.
Now we sow the seeds in the ground. The beds need to make the longitudinal groove depth of 2-3 cm, the distance should be 20 cm therebetween. Before you spread out the seeds, the groove is well moistened, poured warm water and herbal or wood ash. In grooves with seeds every 50 cm seedlings planted onions. They germinate quickly, marking the rows, which will remove the weeds before. Seeds need to sprinkle fine humus or coconut substrate. Between the rows of carrots is good to sow lettuce, it will serve as a green manure - protect the soil from drying out, pests, weeds will not grow. When the carrots grow up, you need to cut the lettuce and arrange on a bed as a mulch.
After the sowing is over, a bed can be covered with foil. This will allow the seeds used to climb.
Next to the beds of carrots, it is desirable to plant a plant-backs: leeks, onion, lettuce, marigolds, basil.
Watering and fertilizing
Carrot watering is important for the entire time of its development. Moisten the soil to a depth of root or a little deeper.
During the season, the plants need two dressing liquid ash solution (2 cups of fertilizer on a bucket of water). The first - 20 days after planting, the second dressing is spent in two months.
In order to preserve the moisture, it is necessary to mulch the grass aisle.
Pest Control
When watering is necessary to sprinkle mulch ash tobacco or red pepper - it will protect carrots from pests.
Care of seedlings
The best care - is thinning carrots. When the first leaves on the plants is necessary to carry out thinning. The distance should not be less than 4.3 cm between them. After the appearance of another pair of leaves is carried out with the following decimation distance between plants 8-15 cm (depending on the variety).
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