Carrots are root crop which is grown up in any kitchen garden. The plant belongs to family of umbrella. It is one of the very first cultures which crops are made right after descent of snow and warming up of the soil up to the temperature plus 6 degrees. The unpretentious plant, at good leaving yields abundant harvest of the bright orange fruits used in many dishes.
It is required to you
- - seeds;
- - fertilizers;
- - sand.
Instruction
1. Carrots contain huge amount of the carotene which is transformed to vitamin A and also other vitamins and mineral substances. Well remains during the whole year. In the first year forms root crops, in the second – seed sockets. To grow up abundant harvest with large root crops, it is necessary to observe certain agrotechnology of landing and cultivation.
2. Sow carrots on the site where last year grew: onions, tomatoes, potatoes or cucumber are the best predecessors. Never use under crops of carrots sites on which umbrella cultures, such as grew: caraway seeds, parsley, parsnip, carrots. On the soil where beet, peas, haricot, cabbage grew, it is possible to grow up carrots, but it is undesirable.
3. Before crops deeply dig over the soil, remove all roots from weeds and carefully you razboronit rake that there were no lumps. You do not introduce fertilizer just before landing as it will lead to curvature of root crops. It is possible to bring organic or mineral fertilizing only in the fall, that is it is necessary to fertilize the site of crops before approach of steady frosts. The most suitable type of fertilizer, is organic or mineral with high content of salts and in addition introduce to the soil limy fertilizers with magnesium.
4. Sow seeds on the prepared beds. As seeds very small you can mix them with sand or the earth in equal quantities or to sow in pure form. To save seeds, it is possible to paste them on toilet paper ribbons and ready rolls to roll in grooves, but you make preparation of tapes in the winter. For this purpose just cut toilet paper on tapes 5 cm wide and paste seeds on paste, dry, contract, you store before crops. It considerably will save not only seeds, but also time.
5. Support the soil in damp state to the shoots. Depending on air temperature, carrots will ascend in 10-14 days. As soon as there were shoots, reduce waterings to 1-2 times a week. Excessive moistening will promote appearance of wreckers and diseases.
6. The first thinning you carry out in phase of 2-3 real leaflets at distance 2-3 cm. The second - as soon as carrots root crops, will reach thickness about finger. The second thinning produce 15-20 cm at distance. If it is bad to thin out carrots, then not to receive large root crops.
7. Leaving consists in watering, weeding. It is possible to loosen row-spacings, but it is undesirable as root crops can be bent or fork. Therefore you carry out loosening only if you have heavy clay soil.
8. You carry out harvesting to approach of steady frosts. You store carrots in cellar, having powdered with damp sand.