It is difficult to provide kitchen garden without carrot. This root crop is grown up by both experienced gardeners and the beginning summer residents. Problem of each of them - to grow up and reap crop.
On the one hand, cultivation of carrots does not seem very much difficult: has seeded, has watered several times, has weeded and it is possible to reap crop. With another, for increase in quantity and quality of harvest it is necessary to implement certain recommendations.
Choice of seeds
Getting bags of seeds, it is worth paying attention to terms of maturing of carrots. Early will be suitable for regions with cool climate or in the short summer better. And here for long storage it is better to stop the choice on the grades ripening longer. It increases the probability that the root crop will not deteriorate during the winter.
Processing of seeds
To exclude possibility of bad viability and repeated landing, seeds of any grades need to be filled in with water of room temperature and to leave for the night. In 8-10 hours all seed illiquid asset will emerge, and at the bottom of capacity there will be only seeds, suitable for landing. It is necessary to remove the emerged sunflower seeds, and the others, together with water, to cast away through rag and to leave wrapped up in fabric in the warm place for day. It will accelerate germination of seeds and the subsequent viability.
Choice of the place
It is impossible to plant carrots on one place several years in a row as the soil is exhausted, and the productivity sharply falls. It is not desirable that parsley, fennel, celery and parsnip were predecessors on bed. For carrot cucumbers and tomatoes, onions and garlic, cabbage and potatoes are considered as excellent predecessors. By the way, carrot allotment it is better to have on the solar site, grown up in shadow it loses the tastes.
Planting of seeds
Starting landing of carrots, at first do grooves, their depth has to be about 2-3 cm, distance between them 10-12 cm. Then, the soil it is necessary to humidify and start landing of carrot. Sunflower seeds have to be located at distance of 1.5-2 cm from each other.
Weeding of carrots
It is necessary to delete weeds from carrot allotments at once, after their emergence. The weeds deprive carrots of nutrients and slow down its growth. Perhaps, the first weeding is required even before emergence of the first shoots.
Watering of root crop
It is necessary to water carrots throughout the entire period of growth and maturing. Lack of moisture - the reason of small, not juicy and sluggish carrots.