Thinning of carrots - business the tiresome and laborious, demanding many forces and time. However if not to carry out this work, then it is possible to forget about good harvest of carrots. It is necessary to weed and thin out saplings in certain terms when plants reach the necessary sizes.
Each gardener planting at himself on the site carrots usually sows it quite densely. It is explained by the fact that the viability of seeds is rather low. Not only that not everyone sunflower seed sprouts, and few what sprout manages to break through through thick crust on the surface of the soil. And these plants at the necessary distance from each other do not allow to plant too small seeds. Though some gardeners also use method of tape landing or plant seeds with impurity of paste or sand, however in most cases all the same they should thin out carrots.
In general, for what thin out carrots? Naturally in order that plants had enough place and power supply for the growth, they did not shade each other. If to ignore thinning, then many plants will die, and other vegetables will be clumsy, eaten by insects.
So, what requires thinning - have understood, now it is necessary to find out when and as it is correct to thin out carrots. The first thinning becomes on achievement of saplings of two-three present sheets. Usually such criteria are reached by saplings after 4-5 weeks after landing. The second thinning is made two-three weeks later after the first when plants have already about five-six real leaflets. As for rules of thinning, they are painted below:
- it is possible to thin out carrots only on the damp soil, for this purpose landings need previously to be watered, and two-three hours later it is possible to get to work;
- it is necessary to delete the smallest saplings, the weakest, therefore, to leave - the strongest and large;
- at the first thinning the distance between saplings has to make 2-3 cm, at the second - 5-6;
- at wrest of sprouts the earth around saplings it is necessary to adhere, and it is necessary to pull plants up, but not in the parties.
There is such opinion that wrest of saplings of carrots from the earth has negative effect on the remained plants therefore many gardeners prefer not to pull out and to shear unnecessary sprouts. However It should be noted that at sostriganiye of tops the underground part remains in the earth and in most cases begins to decay. If there were a few sheared plants, then, perhaps, it would not affect health of the remained saplings in any way, however in the earth thus there is set of backs which at the same time begin to decay, and it leads to rotting and healthy plants.