2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Such a familiar carrot. It seems that there is nothing new to say about her. But, as they say, repetition is the mother of learning. Even if you do not find anything new for yourself in the article, make sure once again that the process of growing it on your beds is the most reliable and reliable, and you can safely rest "on your laurels", more precisely, on thick and juicy carrot tops
Perennial
The adjective "perennial" somehow does not sound next to the word carrot, because we are used to sowing it in the spring and putting it away in the bins in the fall. But this is done only by gardeners who use seeds from the store. Those who know a lot about gardening, grow carrots as a biennial plant. Then, in the second year of its existence, the carrot will release a flower stem with an umbrella of bisexual flowers. It is for the shape of the flower that carrots belong to the umbrella family.
The dry fruit with the name "two-seed" has a specific smell due to the content of essential oils. We collect seeds and sow the beds in the early spring of next year. You can sow them before winter, but for areas with little snow there is a risk of seeds freezing.
Sowing methods
The gardener's fantasy is inexhaustible. Tired of thinning the rows of sprouted carrots, he came up with many more economical planting options:
* On winter evenings, when the snow is blowing on the street, and on TV for the 357th time they show "Enjoy Your Bath", the tireless vegetable grower breeds cloister, takes a roll of toilet paper and carefully glues small seeds on the paper at the required interval. In the spring, all that remains is to lay the paper strips into the prepared moist grooves.
* Whoever has other things to do in winter, proceed as follows. They boil liquid starch jelly, pour it into a teapot for brewing, pour seeds there, stir and spill grooves through the spout of the teapot, after spilling them thoroughly with water.
Since the seeds pierce the soil with their sprouts for a long time (two to three weeks), for faster germination, some experts suggest pre-processing the seeds. But to me personally, such procedures seem time consuming and unnecessary. Even when sown in June, carrots have time to ripen by September, and to prepare food in the country in the summer, you can slowly dig in it, using young leaves.
Soil for carrots
If you want long, even roots, the soil in the bed should be loose and fertilized. In clay soil, the root crop has to be very virtuoso to make its way. As a result of such refinements, instead of the usual form, the gardener digs up all kinds of monsters that are not suitable for food, if only because they cannot be economically cleaned. But you can take part in some wonderful exhibition.
Fertile loams, light sandy loam are best suited for carrots. When digging the beds in the fall, humus is introduced into the soil. Spring application of manure is contraindicated. It leads to the branching of the root crop, that is, the cultivation of monsters. If the soil is acidic (pH less than 5, 5), add lime, since carrots do not like very acidic soils.
It is better to change the place of growth of carrots from year to year. The best predecessors for it are cucumbers, cabbage, tomatoes, that is, fertilized soils. But beans, parsley and last year's planting site have already depleted the required set of trace elements and accumulated pests. So, get away from them.
Carrot care
Carrots are not afraid not only of freezing, but also of drought. This does not mean that in dry season it does not need to be watered.
If the seedlings have sprouted densely, they should be mercilessly thinned out, although it is a pity to do this. But pity in this case will backfire with small and crooked root crops. For powerful growth, the root crop needs free space, then the harvest will be both quantitative and qualitative. At first, weeds must be removed, later they will not appear, the overgrown carrots will not let them into their territory by themselves.
A couple of times a season, you can feed the carrots a little with urea, superphosphate, potassium salt.
In addition to people, the umbrella moth, the carrot fly, and the pale meadow moth love to feast on carrots. In addition, it can be affected by diseases: dry and black rot, powdery and downy mildew, phomosis and leaf blight. The gardener's enemies do not sleep, attracting your attention and strength.
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