It is valuable every day in the spring therefore gardeners have thought up to put some cultures including carrots, towards the winter. Then the harvest will please earlier, than at spring landing. It is important to carry out sowing works to optimum time.
Not all gardeners know that carrot seeds can be sowed not only at the end of April – the beginning of May, but also towards the winter.
Why it is good to plant carrots towards the winter
On the site there are a lot of affairs in the spring therefore each hour is valuable. If there is opportunity, then it is good to postpone part of landing works to fall. At this time it is harvested, the earth is dug over, and there is time to plant carrots towards the winter.
One more reason concerns soil moisture. Carrots sprout long – 10-14 days. At this time it needs enough water which happens in the spring after snow thawing. But the soil at this time too crude therefore it is difficult to dig over it. If to plant seeds towards the winter, then in the spring redigging of the soil is not required. Besides "subwinter" carrot will receive enough moisture, and seeds will perfectly sprout.
Choice of day of landing
It is very important to inter seeds in time. If to try to make it too late in the fall, then with the frozen earth will work very difficult. If to begin works in early autumn, then till winter the seeds will sprout and will die from frosts. The period is optimum: the end of October – the beginning of November. Earlier at the beginning of November 30-degree frosts could be ferocious. There are no such early winters now and at the beginning of November it is quite possible to carry out these works. Landing terms in many respects depend on weather. November can be warm and snowless too. Then, the seeds planted at the end of October will sprout in thaw, and during frosts will die.
Carrots towards the winter are planted when the earth is chilled on 3 centimeters. It can be both at the beginning, and in the middle of November.
It is hard to dig over the frozen earth and plant seeds in already settled bed therefore it is prepared in advance - in October.
Bed and seeds for subwinter carrots
The bed has to be 15-20 high see below it it is impossible to do as spring melt waters will carry away with themselves the most part of seeds, and the harvest will be small. If to make it too high, then the winter will become fatal for seeds – part of snow can fall down because of wind, and they will freeze and will lose viability. Besides in the summer on very high ridge there is not enough moisture as it quickly evaporates under beams of the sun.
Towards the winter carrots need to be sowed by 1.5 times more often than in the spring as part of seeds can not ascend. Do grooves and plant dry seeds. From above grooves powder with peat layer in 1.5 cm.
In the spring in row-spacings it is necessary to podrykhlit the earth carefully. The carrots planted for the winter not only save time in the spring, but also give the chance earlier to regale on young sweet fruits.