Carrots are indispensable in the kitchen. The unique color and flavor of this vegetable decorate any dish. And about the benefits of nothing to say: Orange beauty - a real storehouse of vitamins.
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Carrots grow uneasy. You need to take care of the plants from the time of sowing to harvest. Too frequent shoots necessarily thin ridge, or grow vegetables in small and ugly. In addition, it is important to properly prepare the ground. The intricacies of growing carrots is to understand in more detail.
Prepare beds for carrots
The process of planting carrot seeds rarely can be called pleasant. The seed is small and requires patience, care in this painstaking work. But experienced gardeners share their secrets, how fast, convenient and easy to grow this vegetable in their own beds.
The most common method of planting is considered to be spring. Carrot loves the heat and fear of frost, so the best time for planting work - mid-May. As with growing any other crop, it is important to observe rotation.
The best preceding deemed tomatoes, cabbage, onions, parsley, dill, basil, lettuce and cucumbers.
To roots were as the selection smooth and sleek, well-recommended to loosen the soil and enrich it with nutrients. Good use for this purpose sand, rotted manure, compost or sawdust. All thoroughly mixed, and then proceed to the formation of the beds.
For convenience hereinafter care hostess select the most acceptable to the width of the ridge itself. The average value is 80-90 cm. Forming grooves on a bed depth of 3.5 cm at a distance of 20 cm from each other. Then disinfected and warms the earth, watering it with boiling water.
When the soil has cooled slightly, the time comes for the most interesting - unusual way of sowing carrots to coffee.
Sow carrots with coffee
Immediately it should be noted that in the instant drink granules for sowing carrot fit only as a fertilizer. Experienced gardeners recommend the use of residues svezheperemolotyh grains after the coffee is drunk. And take the best cake finely ground.
We mix and sow carrots with coffee prepared grooves. The main advantage of the method lies in the fact that the carrot seeds fall to the ground is not too close to each other, and therefore, when the sprouts hatch, they will need to thin out less.
Plus, coffee increases the yield of vegetable, because it is a good fertilizer and discourages its aroma of various pests. After this treatment, the plant is not afraid of any wireworms or slugs.
Further care for culture
The plant needs to amend the soil nutrients. But fertilizing should be done correctly, otherwise you can hurt vegetables.
The first rule - never to make fresh manure. From this root can grow irregularly shaped.
All you need to culture - a little peremelotogo coffee, fertilizers and well-rotted humus. You can also add peat litter.
Over the summer the plant should be fertilized twice. First fertilizing 2 weeks after germination. Making potassium nitrate (20 g), triple superphosphate and urea (15 g). Then another 2 weeks added potassium chloride and mineral fertilizers on a bucket 20 g of pure water defended. This amount is sufficient to treat 2 m² bed.
The harvest will be more, and root will remain longer if a month before the collection of vegetables to feed the culture of potassium chloride.
When growing carrots is not recommended to abuse of nitrogen fertilizers. Such feeding can reduce shelf life, reducing its keeping quality.
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