Some of the most popular root crops on kitchen garden can call carrots. That root crops have turned out beautiful, equal and tasty, it is necessary to follow certain rules when leaving.
Before planting carrots on ridges, it is necessary to decide on eerazmeshcheniye. It is necessary to choose sites with good lighting. At cultivation in shadow its productivity suffers a little, and tastes considerably worsen.
Garlic or onions, tomatoes or cucumbers, cabbage or potatoes can be predecessors of carrots on bed. It is undesirable to plant carrots after celery, parsnip, fennel and parsley.
The correct sowing time is important – the harvest directly depends on it. Planning when to plant carrots, it is recommended to be guided by terms in which you would like to receive harvest also. For receiving early carrots carry out crops of early ripening varieties, they can be spring or subwinter. But not in all regions such options because of difference in climate are possible. If the winter is especially severe, seeds are capable to freeze also under thick layers of ukryvny materials. Therefore preference is given generally to the crops which are carried out in the early spring – it is possible to carry out them immediately after warming up of top layers of soil.
It must be kept in mind that at cold snaps "lezhkost" of root crops can worsen. Sometimes in large number arrows on greens are formed. But it is not reflected in beam products badly, and sowing can be carried out early enough.
Carrots with the long term of maturing will be suitable for laying on storage. Vyseivaniye needs to see off when on the street there is stable temperature in 15 degrees of heat.
To accelerate germination and to remove seeds with defects, seeds in 10 hours prior to landing should be filled in with warm water. Then remove that emerge. The rest can be landed.
Before jumping of carrots in ridges for seeds on earth surface do furrows and well spill them water. It is not necessary to do them very small – wind can carry on the site only the seeded seeds. In deep furrows it will be difficult to them to sprout. It is better to carry out seal at depth of 2-3 cm. Between furrows do distance of 15 cm, between sunflower seeds – 2 cm.
When seeds arise and to surface there will be green tops of vegetable, it is required to look after bed. Timely weeding, loosening of surface, thinning of shoots is surely provided. The taste and fortress of root crops depend on regularity of waterings.
Fertilizing of carrots during the season is carried out twice. The first time of fertilizer should be brought month later from germination of greens, then to repeat approximately in 6 weeks. For fertilizing prepare liquid solution: on water bucket couple of glasses of ashes, or mix from 20 g of potash saltpeter, double superphosphate of 15 g, urea of 15 g.