Carrots are the most popular vegetable in our country after potatoes. And not for nothing that people love him. In carrots is a huge amount of trace elements and vitamins. There is no need to list them. But in our time, not everything that is sold in stores can be called useful and tasty. Quality assurance can only give your own garden. How to grow carrots on your site so that it delights the owner and surprises others?
The technology of growing vegetables is not classified as high. Everything has been worked out for centuries. But there are many tricks that allow you to increase the yield. How to plant carrots correctly? You need to start by choosing a place for the garden. The plot where you decided to plant carrots should not be near trees. This vegetable needs adequate lighting - this time. The close arrangement of large trees will suppress root crops, they will turn out thin, with serious defects - two. Carrots love fertilized soil, but cannot tolerate fresh manure - three. Therefore, humus must be added to the soil. In arid areas, the bed needs to be done with the sides, this will hold moisture. In the northern latitudes, where summers are often rainy, it is better to make them high so that excess water leaves. Well, the place has been prepared.
How to grow carrots sweet and healthy? In many respects it depends on the seeds. Now they offer many varieties. How to sort out this abundance? Generally,
The answer is simple: buy a carrot of your choice and grow the seeds yourself. This is not difficult. In March, stick the root crop in a pot of earth, at the end of May it can be planted in the ground. By fall, you will have your seeds. Part can be left for landing, part can be sold or used as medicine. Carrot seeds help with cystitis, female diseases, they will improve digestion in a small child. Before landing they need to be prepared. Seeds should be soaked. Unprofitable will emerge, they can be thrown away, there will be no sense from them. The remaining 5-6 hours should lie in the water, then they should be dried. There is another option: wrap the seeds in a damp cloth, so leave for several days. Tiny seedlings will appear. But working with them is difficult, it requires some skill and patience.
Continuing the operation, codenamed "How to Grow a Carrot." The next stage is landing. Gardeners are constantly trying to modernize this process. Stick seeds on strips, use various markings. But practice shows that in such modernization the preparatory part often takes considerable time. It is better to be patient and plant in the old fashioned way: a groove, and seeds are distributed over it at a distance of 3 cm. The bed needs to be shed in advance
well with water, cover the seeds from above with dry earth and mulch. Doing this is pretty boring. But in the future, the carrots will not need to be thinned out, it will have optimal conditions for development. If the root crops sit densely, they will be thin, small, underdeveloped, if very rare - the plant will begin to branch. Dates of landing may be different. Early varieties are sown in late April, for winter storage - in the middle, and possibly in the third decade of May.
How to grow tasty and beautiful carrots? It will depend on the care. When the seedlings get stronger, they can begin to feed. Of course, it is advisable to do this with organic fertilizers, but if there is no possibility, you will have to use "chemistry". Carrots must be loosened, the root crop needs oxygen. Watering should be plentiful. Well, that’s all, in the fall you can deservedly enjoy the harvest.