The friendship of a man with a carrot lasts more than one millennium. During this time, people have come up with not only a thousand and one ways how to make carrots, but also dozens of ways how to plant it.
How to choose a place for planting carrots?
For cultivation of carrots are suitable well-lit areas with sandy loamy soils, not subject to the danger of stagnation of groundwater. Do not put carrots on the same site for several years in a row. It is best to choose for her beds where cabbage, potatoes, garlic, cucumbers, onions, greens and tomatoes grew up before.
How to properly prepare the carrot seeds for planting?
Seeds of carrots have a fairly dense shell, due to what they spend a lot of time on germination. To accelerate this process, the carrot seeds should be pre-sown in warm water for two to three hours before sowing, and then put on a folded several times wet gauze. After swelling, carrot seeds are sent for 10 days to a cool dark place for hardening.
How to plant carrots with seeds?
To facilitate further care for carrot beds, it is very important to evenly distribute seeds along the bed during the sowing process. This is not easy, because the seeds are very small. But inventive truck farmers invented a variety of ways how to plant carrots with seeds evenly. The simplest of them is to mix the seeds with dry river sand and sow in pre-made grooves. It is also convenient to use ready-made granulated seeds - carrot seeds in a shell from a mixture of nutrients. But it is not always possible to buy granulated seeds of the desired variety. If desired, you can make a nutrient solution for the seeds yourself, by welding a jelly from starch and water with the addition of mineral fertilizers. When the jelly will cool down, seeds of carrots are added to it and distributed over the bed, pouring into a culinary syringe or a cut off bottle. But the most convenient way how to plant carrots with seeds is to plant them on a tape. In this case, the tape with the seeds glued on it is simply stretched over the bed and sprinkled a little on top of the ground. Over time, the ribbon decomposes, and the seeds sprout, forming a beautiful neat garden.
When to plant carrots?
Carrots are one of those crops that can be planted both in spring and winter. Choosing when to plant carrots - in the spring or for the winter - is necessary depending on when you want to harvest and how to plan to dispose of it. If carrots are planted for long winter storage, then it should be planted in the spring. Short-term storage is suitable for early ripening varieties of carrots, which must be planted in autumn. Autumn planting of carrots has a number of advantages. First, it releases part of the time, which is already in short supply in the spring. Secondly, seeds for autumn sowing must not be prepared beforehand.
When to plant carrots for the winter?
The time to plant carrots under winter comes in the first decade of November, when the ground has not frozen yet, but it's still warm enough to carry out planting works.
When to plant carrots in spring?
The timing of the spring planting of carrots depends on what type of carrots are sown. Early-ripening varieties of carrots begin to sow in early April, when there is no danger of recurrent frosts, and soil temperature does not drop below + 5 ° C. Carrots with an average maturity period are sown in late April-early May. The time to sow late varieties of carrots comes in early June.