How to grow carrots correctly a few tips?

What is good for growing and getting a good harvest of carrots

Even the smallest and most modest vegetable garden is hard to imagine without carrots. But the trouble is, raising this beautiful girl is not easy. I almost saw it - and instead of slender roots from the ground, many-legged orange monsters appear. To prevent this from happening, heed the advice of a reader who knows almost everything about carrots.

Soil for carrots

Carrots need very loose soil. On solid ground, crooked-legged freaks will grow. I dig a bed for carrots deep (on the bayonet of a shovel) in the fall. In the spring, I don't dig this bed, but only shallowly loosen it with a flat cutter. Carrots require, although deeply cultivated, already settled soil.

Seeds

I will make a reservation in advance if you buy bad carrot seeds, then all your work will go down the drain and then you can not even read. Carrot seeds germinate even at low temperatures. To get early roots, I germinate the seeds in the ground at a depth of about 10 cm in a damp cloth, which I put in a jar.

I cover the greenhouse early with foil, in which the onions were bridged on the greens in the fall. Here in this greenhouse I bury a jar of seeds. I sow seeds (usually already germinated) in 10-12 days.

First, I cover the bed with a film, then after a few days I remove the film.
By the way, I somehow sowed the carrots with dry seeds, because of the soil crust it did not sprout until after a month. A neighbor joked: "She's like a hen on eggs - she sits just as long."

Carrot beds

I grow carrots only in rows, not randomly.

In the spring I sprinkle the bed with ashes and flat cutter Fokina I loosen shallowly. Then, with a board 8 cm wide, I mark the rows, walking along it back and forth. I sow seeds into this groove, where they lay thickly - I spread them with a brush.

I water the furrow well beforehand, after sowing I cover it with earth.
The advantage of early sowing is also that in cool weather the sprout will deepen and develop its root, and the leaves are in no hurry to develop, but in the heat it turns out on the contrary - the violent development of tops to the detriment of the root crop.

As you know, the harvest begins with a seed, so I check the seeds for germination even in winter. For a garden bed with late sowing, I stick the seeds on toilet paper, while when I brew the paste, I add fertilizer to the water so that the seed has something to eat. I make rows along the garden bed, across a row I plant onions. Carrots grow best on the edge. When I remove the onion, I water the carrots well.
And yet, I almost forgot: to designate rows with carrots as a lighthouse culture, occasionally, not thickly, I throw radish seeds, it rises quickly, and it will be possible to loosen and weed the aisles.

Carrot pest prevention

Carrot fly larvae leave tunnels, excrement, bacteria and other products of their vital activity in the root crop. Carrots go bad.
Moreover, the fight against the fly must be carried out constantly. Here are the main tricks:

• every year we sow in a new place;
• a bed with carrots is well lit by the sun and blown by the wind;
• the soil is constantly loosened - in dense soil, the fly loves to lay eggs;
• we huddle the rows after each thinning - the heads will not be green;
• we spray every 3 days with an infusion of marigolds or needles;
• we cover the place of the pulled out carrot with earth;
• cover the bed with non-woven material;
• after loosening and removing weeds, sprinkle the aisles with ash, celandine powder, chamomile.

I personally try not to use chemicals.

Brand secrets

If the seeds are not glued on toilet paper, then before sowing I germinate them, so to speak, at the heart.

To do this, I wrap them in a damp cotton cloth, then in polyethylene, put them in a cloth bag and hang them on a string around my neck.

Instead of sticking on strips of toilet paper, I want to make dragee balls this year. To do this, glue the seed on a piece of paper, roll it into a ball, dry it and put it in a jar until spring.

You don't need to water the carrots - let the root grow deeper and deeper in search of moisture. But if you water it, then it is very abundant, since freaks grow due to surface watering.

Carrot wonders

Carrots are one of the most common root crops for us. It is one of the basic vegetables you always have in the fridge. And all because it is tasty, sweet, juicy, very healthy and not too whimsical! It is these qualities that made carrots one of the traditional, and therefore essential, vegetables in our garden.

IMPORTANT DETAILS

But no matter how unpretentious the carrots are, they grow really tasty and beautiful only with a certain amount of care. The quality of the soil is very important for this root crop. Carrots love loose and fertile.

Therefore, if there is clay soil on your site, carefully dig up the future bed with the addition of rotted sawdust. Then, as the carrots grow, the soil will also need to be loosened regularly, especially after rain, so that an earthen crust does not form.

If the soil on your plot is loose, it is enough to dig up the garden bed a month before sowing and add compost (5 kg per 1 sq. M) and wood ash (300 g per 1 sq. M) to it. Immediately before sowing (and sowing carrots is best in late April - early May), you need to dig up the garden bed again, remove weeds and make shallow grooves at a distance of 20-25 cm from each other.

Then you should sow the seeds, lightly sprinkle them with earth, compact it (it is convenient to do this with a small piece of board with a handle on top).After that, you need to water the carrots with warm water (a watering can must be provided with a sprinkler so that the seeds are not washed out with a stream of water).

FROM CROP TO HARVEST

The first shoots appear, as a rule, in 10-15 days. When they grow up a little, they must be carefully thinned out (so as not to injure neighboring plants, you can simply pinch the extra specimens at the root). Further care for carrots is quite simple: you need to loosen the soil in the aisles, remove weeds and water the plantings in a timely manner.

About a month after planting, the carrots need to be fed. To do this, add 20 g of potassium nitrate, 20 g of nitrophosphate, 15 g of superphosphate, 10 g of urea to 10 liters of water. Mix everything well and pour the garden over with the solution.

The second time the carrots need to be fed in another month. You can use the same solution.

Carrots should be harvested as they ripen - usually this is determined visually, by the size of the top of the root crop sticking out from the ground. Early ripening varieties can be harvested in July, but late ripening varieties are usually pulled out in September. For long-term storage, root crops must be shaken off the ground, but not washed. Store in a refrigerator or cellar.

USE-WAGON!

Carrots have anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, analgesic properties, regulate metabolism and enhance immunity. Also, the use of carrots increases hemoglobin, treats cardiovascular diseases, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, and much more.

• In case of sore throat, 50 ml of carrot juice should be diluted with 50 ml of water, add 10 g of honey and mix. The resulting mixture should be gargled 3 times a day.
• With inflammation of the lungs and bronchi, 50 ml of carrot juice should be diluted in 50 ml of hot milk and add 10 g of honey. Stir and drink 3 times a day.
• As an antihelminthic agent, you should drink 100 ml of carrot juice in the morning before meals.
• For the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, it is recommended to consume 25 ml of carrot juice 3 times a day.
• For diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, it is useful to drink a mixture of 30 ml of carrot juice, 30 ml of beet juice and 30 ml of cucumber juice. It is better to drink this vegetable shake 3 times a day before meals.
• For constipation, it is recommended to eat 10 g of carrot seeds with water before meals.
• In case of kidney inflammation, 30 g of carrot seeds should be poured with 800 ml of boiling water, closed with a lid and insisted for 8 hours. Then strain and drink 200 ml 4 times a day.
• In case of inflammation of the genitourinary system, 20 g of carrot tops should be poured with 300 ml of boiling water, closed with a lid and insisted for about 1 hour. Then strain the infusion and drink 100 ml 3 times a day before meals.

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What is good for growing and getting a good harvest of carrots

Even the smallest and most modest vegetable garden is hard to imagine without carrots. But the trouble is, raising this beautiful girl is not easy. I almost caught sight - and instead of slender roots from the ground, many-legged orange monsters appear. To prevent this from happening, heed the advice of a reader who knows almost everything about carrots.

Soil for carrots
Carrots need very loose soil. On solid ground, crooked-legged freaks will grow. I dig a bed for carrots deeply (on the bayonet of a shovel) in the fall.In the spring, I don't dig this bed, but only shallowly loosen it with a flat cutter. Carrots require, although deeply cultivated, already settled soil.

Seeds

I will make a reservation in advance if you buy bad carrot seeds, then all your work will go down the drain and then you can not even read. Carrot seeds germinate even at low temperatures. To get early roots, I germinate the seeds in the ground at a depth of about 10 cm in a wet cloth, which I put in a jar.

I cover the greenhouse with foil early, in which the onions were planted on the greens by the bridge method in the fall. Here in this greenhouse I bury a jar of seeds. I sow seeds (usually already germinated) in 10-12 days.

First, I cover the bed with a film, then after a few days I remove the film.
By the way, I somehow sowed the carrots with dry seeds, because of the soil crust it did not sprout until after a month. A neighbor joked: "She's like a hen on eggs - she sits just as long."

Carrot beds

I grow carrots only in rows, not randomly.

In the spring, I sprinkle the bed with ash and a Fokin's flat cutter shallowly loosen. Then, with a board 8 cm wide, I mark the rows, walking along it back and forth. I sow seeds into this groove, where they lay thickly - I spread them with a brush.

I water the furrow well beforehand, after sowing I cover it with earth.
The advantage of early sowing is also that in cool weather the sprout will deepen and develop its root, and the leaves are in no hurry to develop, but in the heat it turns out on the contrary - the violent development of tops to the detriment of the root crop.

As you know, the harvest begins with a seed, so I check the seeds for germination even in winter. For a garden bed with late sowing, I stick the seeds on toilet paper, while when I brew the paste, I add fertilizer to the water so that the seed has something to eat. I make rows along the garden bed, across a row I plant onions. Carrots grow best on the edge. When I remove the onion, I water the carrots well.
And yet, I almost forgot: to designate rows with carrots as a lighthouse culture, occasionally, not thickly, I throw radish seeds, it rises quickly, and it will be possible to loosen and weed the aisles.

Carrot pest prevention

Carrot fly larvae leave tunnels, excrement, bacteria and other products of their vital activity in the root crop. Carrots go bad.
Moreover, the fight against the fly must be carried out constantly. Here are the main tricks:

• every year we sow in a new place;
• a bed with carrots is well lit by the sun and blown by the wind;
• the soil is constantly loosened - in dense soil, the fly loves to lay eggs;
• we huddle the rows after each thinning - the heads will not be green;
• we spray every 3 days with an infusion of marigolds or needles;
• we cover the place of the pulled out carrot with earth;
• cover the bed with non-woven material;
• after loosening and removing weeds, sprinkle the aisles with ash, celandine powder, chamomile.

I personally try not to use chemicals.

Brand secrets

If the seeds are not glued on toilet paper, then before sowing I germinate them, so to speak, at the heart.

To do this, I wrap them in a damp cotton cloth, then in polyethylene, put them in a cloth bag and hang them on a string around my neck.

Instead of sticking on strips of toilet paper, I want to make dragee balls this year. To do this, glue the seed on a piece of paper, roll it into a ball, dry it and put it in a jar until spring.

You don't need to water the carrots - let the root grow deeper and deeper in search of moisture. But if you water it, then it is very abundant, since freaks grow due to surface watering.

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Sergey NIKITIN, Lipetsk
12/02/2016 (18:50) #

Carrots - in bunches!
Carrots grown in the first half of summer are also called bunch carrots. Delicate root vegetables are usually not stored, but used for the preparation of vitamin salads.Due to the unpredictability of our climate, sowing carrots in winter is a risky business. But early sowing, on the contrary, gives good results.
Already in the middle of March, I start preparing the seeds. I put 2 kg of river sand into a linen bag (to avoid diseases, I wash it, and then bake it in the oven for 1 hour), add 2 tbsp. l. seeds and mix.
I bury the bag of seeds in the largest snowdrift that I can find on the site, deeper. Carrot seeds have a hard shell impregnated with essential oils. Melt water is excellent
dissolve it, and the seeds swell. At the same time, the temperature in the snowdrift is too low for germination.
I prepare the garden in advance. I add a liter can of dried chicken manure to a bucket of wood ash. I sprinkle this nutrient mixture on top, then scoop up the rest of the snow and cover the bed with black foil. The film retains heat, and the melt water saturates the soil, dissolving the fertilizer.
In early April, I dig up a garden bed and sow seeds along with sand. So that they are evenly distributed, I go through the crops with a rake. Sprinkle on top of 2-3 cm with loose soil.
Seedlings rise amicably after the onset of warmth. So the neighbors are coming to me for a bundle carrot!

It is imperative to dig a bed for carrots deeper. I only dig with a pitchfork, when I have time, I even dig for two bayonets. Then the carrots grow very long and even.
I must check the seeds for germination, then I glue them on toilet paper every 2 cm. I thin out the seedlings, do not be afraid, they will not be rare anyway. And after planting, be sure to sprinkle the tape with seeds with earth and cover it with a film. I scare off a carrot fly by placing jars of whiteness (it smells of bleach). I plant carrots in two passes: in May. when the soil warms up, and at the beginning of June. Last summer the harvest from the second sowing was just wonderful, and the first was in full bloom and the carrots were hairy. I really liked the carrots of the Nantes 4 variety - sweet and even. The Cardinal variety is slightly affected by the carrot fly, but I did not like the taste.

Tatiana STRELTSOVA, Penza
22/09/2015 (19:26) #

Carrots a month ahead of schedule!
Sweet, large and juicy carrots are the dream of any summer resident. Sowing carrots in winter will allow you to harvest a month earlier than early ripening varieties!
Before digging up the soil in the fall, apply humus. Cut the bed into grooves approximately every 1S-20 cm. They should be deeper than during spring sowing. For carrots, 2-3 cm is enough.
Choose pelleted seeds for planting - a special protective shell is applied to them, consisting of fertilizers and growth stimulants. They are also easy to sow. In addition, nutrients are delivered to each seed "targeted", so the seedlings will be friendly.
After planting the seeds, cover them with soil and mulch (peat, humus) with a layer of 3 cm. In the spring, cover the bed with non-woven material until the frost has passed. Carrots can be harvested at the end of June.

Reader
22/09/2013 (07:38) #

Carrots should not be planted in beds fertilized in the same way as other vegetables. Carrots are very sensitive to soil composition. I got used to these whims, and orange roots grow better every year. Take on board my feeding scheme.
Carrots grow well in places where there were legumes, cabbage, tomatoes or potatoes before it. Since autumn, I have been digging a suitable bed on the bayonet of a shovel. I don’t break lumps - it’s better for moisture in the ground to accumulate over the winter. Since my earth is acidic, I add another glass of dolomite flour per 1 sq. m, on normal soil half a glass is enough. In the spring, I fertilize the garden 2-3 days before sowing. I sprinkle it on 1 sq. m 3-5 kg ​​of humus, a bucket of sod land, 5 kg of coarse river sand, 1 tsp. sodium mud
tra (urea can be used), 1 tbsp. l. superphosphate and potassium chloride. Then I carefully dig everything up to a depth of 20-30 cm, level and compact the earth. The next day I spill the ridge with a special solution: 1 tsp.copper sulfate and a glass of mullein on a bucket of water. For each square. m of the beds I pour out 2 liters of this liquid, after which I cover the bed with plastic wrap. After 1-2 days I plant carrot seeds. On enriched soil, root crops immediately begin to grow by leaps and bounds.
Irina MIGOVA, Kursk

carrots are soot in the fall, then there are no problems at all due to the lack of moisture in the spring or untimely sowing. Again, if suddenly the seeds were not germinating, there is always the opportunity to have time to plant in the spring!

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Root crops are smooth, large, conical in shapeTheir fruits are not very sweet, storage is short-lived. If the seeds are not glued on toilet paper, then before sowing I germinate them, so to speak, at the heart.Even the smallest and most modest vegetable garden is hard to imagine without carrots. But the trouble is, raising this beautiful girl is not easy. I almost saw it - and instead of slender roots from the ground, many-legged orange monsters appear. To prevent this from happening, heed the advice of a reader who knows almost everything about carrots.

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Key features

Instead of sticking on strips of toilet paper, I want to make dragee balls this year. To do this, glue the seed on a piece of paper, roll it into a ball, dry it and put it in a jar until spring.

Carrots need very loose soil. On solid ground, crooked-legged freaks will grow. I dig a bed for carrots deeply (on the bayonet of a shovel) in the fall. In the spring, I don't dig this bed, but only shallowly loosen it with a flat cutter. Carrots require, although deeply cultivated, already settled soil.

Growing spices

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Carrots are a healthy root vegetable that is rich in vitamins necessary for the human body. It is quite simple to grow it, the main thing is to choose the right variety and place for planting, carefully thin out and regularly water. Compliance with the basic requirements will allow you to get an excellent harvest of delicious root crops.

Control methods

Bubbling is in progress. Seed material is kept in a container with warm water for 24 hours, providing oxygen with the help of special devices.Then the seeds are wrapped in cloth and stored in the refrigerator for 4 days. Then they are taken out and dried.

The fruits are long, tasty, high in carotene

Old popular variety

The variety cannot be stored for a long time

Root characteristic

You don't need to water the carrots - let the root grow deeper and deeper in search of moisture. But if you water it, then it is very abundant, since freaks grow due to surface watering.

Everything about carrots: from planting to harvesting

I will make a reservation in advance if you buy bad carrot seeds, then all your work will go down the drain and then you can not even read. Carrot seeds germinate even at low temperatures. To get early roots, I germinate the seeds in the ground at a depth of about 10 cm in a wet cloth, which I put in a jar.

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Gray-brown oblong spots affect the veins and leaf petioles. The stems of the testes and the inflorescences can also be affected. Seeds from such plants are contaminated. Brown spots appear on any part of the root crop. To avoid phomosis, it is recommended to remove any plant residues from the beds in time and follow the rules of crop rotation. Affected and diseased plants must be removed. Phomosis can affect both growing vegetables and harvested crops. It is better to harvest carrots in dry weather. The tops are cut off. Sluggish and affected vegetables are discarded.

Carrots grow well in warm, loose soils. Ph acidity of which is 5.5-7.0. Photophilous. Preparations for carrot cultivation begin at the end of April. Do not plant it after beans, carrots and parsley. The best predecessors for her are zucchini, potatoes, cabbage, onions, cucumbers and tomatoes. Especially when organic fertilizers were applied under them. Carrot care consists mainly of seedling thinning, watering, fertilizing and weeding. This vegetable is quite drought-resistant, so watering the carrots is required during dry periods. The optimal water consumption is five liters per square meter.

Carrot fly (Latin Psila rosae)

• Pelleting is carried out - the seeds are covered with a nutritious shell. For this, a mixture of a glass of liquid mullein, a glass of peat (powder) and humus is used. The seeds are placed in a jar with the mixture for a couple of minutes, and then removed and dried.
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• Root length up to 18 cm, cylindrical shape

Root vegetables are cylindrical, bright orange, sweet

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Bronze shade of leaves	These methods provide good germination of seeds and their active growth.	"Shantenez 2461" (lat. Shantenez)	Good stability
Average	"Dragon" (Latin Dragon)	In cultivation, it is quite unpretentious, but not everyone knows how to plant carrots correctly. To begin with, you need to carefully select and prepare the soil.It is preferable to plant carrots in light, loose soil. If there is always a high level of moisture in the ground, carrots can rot. In dry soils, the fruits will grow rough, "woody". It is worth abandoning areas with a lot of weeds. Since they will sprout much earlier than carrots, thereby making it difficult for carrots to grow.	First, I cover the bed with a film, then after a few days I remove the film.
How to pinch grapes	​.​	For the best effect, you can rub the seeds between your palms to help sand them down to get rid of the lint on the surface of the seeds. During the entire soaking time, the water should be changed until it becomes completely transparent. This is usually at least six times.	Deep plowing of the soil before sowing, dusting with tobacco dust with ash
For carrot seeds to sprout quickly, you need to prepare them.	Popular variety, fruits keep well	"Vitamin 6" (lat. Vitaminum)	Ripening of mid-season varieties lasts about 100 days.
Unusual in appearance and very useful variety	Mineral fertilizer can be applied half a month before planting. Never use manure. It will not bring any benefit, on the contrary, it will create a too acidic environment. Even if the manure was applied to the land in the previous year, the carrots will have an irregular shape.	By the way, I somehow sowed the carrots with dry seeds, because of the soil crust it did not sprout until a month later. A neighbor joked: "She's like a hen on eggs - she sits just as long."	Today I decided to touch on the topic of agrotechnical methods for growing carrots. Ask why? Probably because not everyone manages to grow even and neat carrots on their site. I know from the experience of my grandmother, my mother and my own. It seems like you get seeds, on the packaging of which an even and beautiful root crop flaunts. You plant, and you get a crooked, twisted, pest-eaten carrot. I began to figure out why this is happening. I was interested in the neighbors on the site. I started experimenting. And now I want to share my experience.
The pest of carrots is a motley small fly. It can be black, brown or yellow-red. If damaged by a boravnitsa, the leaves turn brown and dry out. Control measures: timely harvesting of crop residues and removal of weeds. In the fall, it is necessary to dig up the soil.	The last time the seeds are filled with a solution of trace elements. When they swell, they are dusted with chalk so that they are better visible. The seeds are then left to dry until they flow freely.	Medvedka (lat.Gryllotalpidae)	Carrot seeds should be planted in open ground in the place where cabbage, potatoes or tomatoes used to grow. For planting carrots, the ground must be prepared in the fall.
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Hawthorn aphid	The seeds can be mixed with moist, non-acidic peat. Leave the mixture for a week in a warm place, keeping it moist and oxygenated. Then the germinated seeds are sown in the usual way on the beds.	The stems and roots of the plant are affected	In different regions, the vegetable is planted at different times.
Average resistance	The fruits are in the form of a cylinder, up to 20 cm long	Ripening of mid-season carrot varieties lasts about 100 days	Average
When choosing in which month to plant carrots, you need to take into account the climatic features of the cultivation area. Seeds and shoots of carrots are resistant to short-term frosts, so sowing can be done quite early. Experienced gardeners advise planting carrots as soon as the snow melts. Seeds do not need to be soaked before planting. For a faster emergence of shoots, it is advisable to cover the crops with foil. Thick, polyethylene in the early spring months or breathable in the warmer months.	In the spring I sprinkle the bed with ashes and	Then the carrot seeds are dried. The main thing is that they do not dry out. After all, after such preparation, they are almost ready to disembark. It is enough that they just sprinkle well from palm to palm. Immediately before planting, the seeds can be soaked in aloe juice for several hours. This will stimulate their growth.	​.​
You can also glue the seeds onto paper tape. This will improve the landing accuracy. The paste is made from starch or flour. Prevents shedding of seeds by folding along the strip. Once the tapes are dry, they can be rolled up.	Deep digging of soil in the fall, the use of washing powder, kerosene, pepper infusion, placement of traps	The main thing is that the soil is sufficiently moist, and frosts are not expected. Carrots should be planted in furrows, burying the seeds just a few centimeters. The garden must be watered first. Then seeds are planted and covered with earth.	"Queen of Autumn" (lat. Regina autumnus)
Average resistance	Variety name	"Parmeks" (lat. Parmeks)	There are several ways to properly plant carrots. The most convenient is the use of paper tapes with seeds glued on them. They can be bought ready-made or made by yourself. To do this, glue carrot seeds at a distance of 5 cm on thin paper tapes using a paste. Seed strips should be laid in shallow grooves prepared in advance, and sprinkled with earth on top.
Flat cutter	The next agrotechnical stage of cultivation is planting carrots. There are several ways of planting:	Insect up to two millimeters in size. It can be black or green. Aphids spend the winter on hawthorns. In April, aphids hatch, which feed on the sap of this plant. In May, the aphid settles on the leaf stalks and roots of carrots. Until the fall, aphids live and multiply there. Affected plants are stunted. In September, the insects return to the hawthorn.	It should be remembered that seeds can take a very long time to germinate. About three weeks.
Carrot lily (lat.Carota psylla)	In order for the seedlings to appear faster, you can cover the furrows with foil, and as soon as the seedlings appear, the shelter must be removed.	A well-known variety, can be planted before winter	"Forto" (lat. Forto)
Key features	The variety can be cultivated on heavy soils	In the same grooves, you can simply sow seeds by first mixing them with sand (carrot seeds are very small, so without sand it will be difficult to plant them at an optimal distance from each other). You can mix the seeds not with sand, but with radish seeds. It ripens much earlier than carrots, and after harvesting the carrots will not need to be thinned out.	Fokina

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The carrot seeds are mixed with a moistened peat mixture and placed in a dark, warm place. After germination, the seeds are transferred and planted in the beds.At the moment, there are no effective chemicals to combat this pest. To avoid the appearance of aphids, it is necessary to follow all agrotechnical rules. Plants should not be planted near hawthorn plantings.

The seeds are planted to a depth of two centimeters. After sowing carrots, the soil is mulched. Care must be taken to ensure that no crust forms on the soil surface. It will hinder the growth of seedlings.

The larvae suck the juice from the leaves	When planting carrots, it is important not to save space.	Fruits are fragrant, sweet, cylindrical	Yielding variety, ripening occurs on the 100th day
Fruit characteristics	The fruits are almost spherical, the flesh is juicy	A longer way to properly plant carrots is by sowing into holes. To do this, in the garden it is necessary to make holes in the form of a cone at a distance of about 10 cm from each other. Pour peat into them. Then sow 3 carrot seeds into each hole to a depth of 1 cm.	I loosen shallowly. Then, with a board 8 cm wide, I mark the rows, walking along it back and forth. I sow seeds into this groove, where they lay thickly - I spread them with a brush.
The seeds are glued onto prepared strips of toilet paper and thus planted in prepared beds.	Read also:	Carrots need to be fed using only mineral fertilizers. Usually, feeding carrots is carried out three to four times in one season. The first one takes place three weeks after the shoots appear. Or after the first thinning. For one bucket of water, take one teaspoon of urea and potassium magnesium. Add an extract of 1 - 1.5 tablespoons of superphosphate. The second feeding is carried out two to three weeks after the first. Growth 2, solution, nitrophoska, kemira-niversal, nitroammofoska - this is what you can feed carrots with a second time. During the period of active growth, the third feeding is carried out. Ash is poured over wet soil and loosened to avoid the appearance of a crust. You can use not dry ash, but its infusion.	Spraying with a decoction of tobacco
The distance between the ridges should be 40 cm.The width of the beds should be about 1.5 m.The optimal depth of the grooves is 1.5-2.5 cm, between the furrows it is necessary to maintain a distance of 20 cm.The seeds are placed with a distance of 2 cm. After after several leaves are formed on the shoots, weak specimens are removed, as a result, a distance of about 6 cm should remain between the remaining plants.	High resistance to diseases and flowers	The fruits are large, up to 20 cm long	Pest and disease resistance
Average	In order to harvest a decent harvest in the fall, it is important to know not only how to plant carrots correctly, but also how to care for them.	I water the furrow well beforehand, and after sowing I cover it with earth.	Carrot seeds are sown directly into open ground, without any preliminary manipulations.
Types of spices (with photos and names)	It is useful to spray the leaves with boric acid in addition to the main dressing. The proportion is two grams per ten liters of water.	Wireworm (lat.Elateridae)	When planting carrots, it is important not to save space.
"Red giant" (Latin Red Giant)	Good resistance to disease and frost	"Incomparable" (lat. Praedulcis)	"Prague carotel" (lat. Paris karotel)
Before germination, carrots need abundant watering, then the amount of moisture needs to be slightly reduced. In warm weather, it is enough to water the plant 2 times a week.	The advantage of early sowing is also that in cool weather the sprout will deepen and develop its root, and the leaves are in no hurry to develop, but in the heat it turns out on the contrary - the violent development of the tops to the detriment of the root crop.	When planting, do not forget that it is necessary to plant seeds in the soil to a depth of at least and no more than 2 centimeters. The distance between the seeds should be such that the thinning procedure is minimized.And in order for the soil cover not to turn into a crust, it should be mulched. Such a measure will also protect the plant from the appearance of weeds on the garden bed.	Conditions for a good, large harvest

Features of planting carrots

Moscow Winter A-515The yellowish worm feeds on the underground parts of the plant

How to plant carrots (video)

Timing and methods of planting

Carrot care involves regular watering, proper feeding and periodic weeding. Also, seedlings need to be thinned so that the plants are spacious. This contributes to a large harvest.The variety was bred in Germany, ripening lasts about 130 days

Late-ripening carrot varieties ripen on the 120th day.The variety can be sown before winter

Old early variety, low yield

How to prepare seeds for sowing

After the emergence of friendly shoots, the carrots are thinned out, leaving the strongest shoots. In addition, weeding is very important especially in the first months.As you know, the harvest begins with a seed, so I check the seeds for germination even in winter. For a garden bed with late sowing, I stick the seeds on toilet paper, while when I brew the paste, I add fertilizer to the water so that the seed has something to eat. I make rows along the garden bed, across a row I plant onions. Carrots grow best on the edge. When the onions are removed, I water the carrots well.

• FERTILIZER: When digging the soil for sowing carrots, you can apply mineral fertilizers per 1 m2 in the following composition:
• Growing seedlings of cucumbers
• Olympus

Application of fertilizers containing ammonia, soil liming, application of insecticides

Thinning of carrots is carried out 2 times per season. It is better to perform the procedure with tweezers.

Soil preparation

Root crops are red, conical, weight 100 g

They are not as sweet as mid-season ones, but they have a longer shelf life.Fruits are conical, orange, taste great

The fruits are orange, almost round, the taste is sweet

Carrot planting scheme

It is best to plant onions next to carrots, its smell will protect the root crop from pests.And yet, I almost forgot: to designate rows with carrots as a lighthouse culture, occasionally, not thickly, I throw radish seeds, it rises quickly, and it will be possible to loosen and weed the aisles.

Urea 10-15 grams;

How to care for carrots

Planting and growing carrots

Terms and rules for thinning carrots

NapoliWinter scoop (lat.Agrotis segetum)The first time the carrots are thinned out after the formation of the first two leaves.

Excellent stabilityLate-ripening carrot varieties ripen on the 120th day

The variety does not suffer from flowers and diseases.

How is watering done

GoodGood care will allow you to grow carrots that will meet all the requirements and will perfectly tolerate winter storage.

How to properly feed carrots

Carrot fly larvae leave tunnels, excrement, bacteria and other products of their vital activity in the root crop. Carrots go bad.Potassium chloride 15-20 grams.

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How to harvest correctly

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Diseases and pests of carrots

Caterpillars eat the stems and the upper part of the root cropIt is recommended to pull out the shoots straight up, and the distance between the remaining plants should be about 3 cm.

"Golden Autumn" (lat. Aureum autumnus)	Variety name	"Rote-Risen" (lat. Rothe-resuscitati)
"Fairy" (lat. Mediocris)	Carrots are a popular crop that belongs to the umbrella family Carrots (Latin Daucus) are a popular crop that belongs to the umbrella family. It is not difficult to take care of it, and you can grow this vegetable in Russia and the former countries of the USSR from the southern territories to the northern latitudes.	Moreover, the fight against the fly must be carried out constantly. Here are the main tricks:
VERY IMPORTANT: In order for the root crop not to bend, you should not add fresh manure that has not rotted and not matured humus before planting. All organic matter should be introduced under the predecessors.	Growing green onions	Vita Longa
Use of drugs "Decis", "Polytrin", "Sherpa"	The second thinning is carried out after 3 weeks,	Universal grade
Key features	Fruitful variety, stored for a long time	A universal variety, root crops are perfectly stored all winter
Carrots are a herbaceous biennial plant that reaches a height of up to 30 cm. The leaves are pinnately dissected, the petioles are long, pubescent. The root crop is formed already in the first year of life. It is rich in vitamin A and is great for canning and preparing salads.	Every year we sow in a new place;	Agricultural technology for growing carrots also requires taking into account crop rotation.
Growing onions	Callisto	Phoma (Latin Phoma)
After the sprouts reach a length of 10 cm.The distance between the plants is increased to 7 cm.	Root crops are large, 27 cm long, weighing 220 g	Fruit characteristics
Fruits are orange, conical, tasty	Fruit weight up to 170 g, cylindrical shape	There are a lot of carrot varieties, and some of them are especially distinguished by a set of positive characteristics - high yield, disease resistance, high quality and excellent taste of root crops.
A bed with carrots is well lit by the sun and blown by the wind;	... It is undesirable to plant carrots if parsley, beans and the root crop itself were its predecessors. It is best to use places where cucumbers, cabbage, onions, zucchini, potatoes or tomatoes grew.	Agrotechnics of cauliflower

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How to grow carrots in high beds (video)

Planting and growing carrots

Grayish spots appear on the leaves and petioles

Features of sowing (planting) carrots

Thinning of carrots is carried out 2 times per season

Excellent stability

Pest and disease resistance

Average resistance

High

Early varieties of carrots ripen as early as 65-90 days

The soil is constantly loosened - in dense soil, the fly loves to lay eggs;

How to feed carrots - the best fertilizers for feeding carrots

These are precisely the manipulations on which the shape and quality of the root crop largely depends.

Beet harvesting and storage

The best varieties of carrots for planting:

Vitamin 6	Potash fertilization, warming up the seeds before planting	Watering carrots should be done evenly and regularly. If the weather is hot, it is worth watering the plants 3 times a week. There should be about half a bucket of water per square meter of the garden. Watering should be increased as the carrots grow.
Carrots should be placed on well-lit ridges. The landing area should be in direct sunlight.	"Yellowstone" (Latin Yellowstone)	"Moscow winter A 515" (lat. Moscow hieme)
"Amsterdam" (lat. Amsterdam)	According to the ripening period, all varieties of carrots are divided into three groups:	We huddle the rows after each thinning - the heads will not be green;

Various carrot diseases and carrot pest control

Thinning of carrots should be started when the first true leaves appear. It is best to spend it in the evening. These manipulations must be regular. During the season, they can be from 3 to 4 times. It should be remembered that by touching the plant, we stimulate the release of essential oils, which in turn attract the carrot fly. In order not to attract it, the beds are pollinated with ground pepper and tobacco dust. How to prepare such an insect repellent can be found here.

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White rot (Latin Sclerotinia sclerotiorum)

From the middle of the cultivation period, irrigation activities are carried out once a week.

A vegetable should not be grown on the same ridge every year.

A productive variety with excellent taste

The variety can be sown before winterAn early variety with a high yield• late;

We spray every 3 days with an infusion of marigolds or needles;NOTE: In order to get rid of the presence of carrot flies, you can alternate the beds of carrots with beds of onions. This agrotechnical technique is very effective in the fight against insects.When is it better to start planting vegetables in the garden

White rot. It is characterized by a white bloom on the root crop. Contaminated soil can be the source of this disease. The introduction of an excessive amount of nitrogen fertilizers provokes the formation of white rot.A bloom similar to cotton wool forms on the roots, mucus is located under itAfter the plant has three leaves, it should be fed. For this, a solution of ammonium nitrate is used - for 10 liters of water, 30 g of the product. Subsequent dressings are carried out with the introduction of a superphosphate solution - for 10 liters of water, 30 g of the product.

To get a summer harvest, carrots are planted in the spring.

Fruits have sharp tips, weight up to 200 g

The fruits are long, bright orange, the tip is dull

The root crop is cylindrical, weighing up to 150 g

• early;

We cover the place of the pulled out carrot with earth;

Weeding carrot beds is another important agricultural technique. It should be carried out with caution. Rough handling can damage the central root of the plant, resulting in the growth of lateral shoots. It is best to weed beds, with growing root crops, after rains or watering. This makes the procedure easier. You can combine all this with loosening and hilling.

Tillage to prepare for sowing

Spraying vegetables with copper-containing preparations helps to fight it. The formation of white rot can be prevented by frequent ventilation and disinfection.

Introduction of organic matter, watering with warm water

During the summer, it is necessary to carry out 3 dressings.

The procedure is carried out immediately after the snow melts, when the ground dries up. It is recommended to shed the bed well before sowing to prevent the seeds from being washed away before rooting.

Average resistance

High stability

Good resistance to disease and cracking

• medium.

Cover the bed with non-woven material;

Watering the grown carrots also has a significant effect on the growth of the root crop. If you pour the plant, then you can provoke the growth of the green mass (tops). It will inhibit the growth of the root crop itself. After dry weather, abundant watering contributes to the curvature of the carrots, their curling and cracking. What will affect the duration of its storage.

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Carrot bacteriosis. Initially, the lower leaves are affected by small yellow spots. Then the spots turn brown, the rest of the leaf turns yellow. As a result of severe damage, the leaves can curl and dry out. The disease is spread by seeds as well as plant debris. It is recommended to take seeds only from healthy plants. And then soak them in water for ten minutes. The water temperature should be + 52 ° С.

Bacteriosis (lat.Bacteriosis)

Carrots are recommended to be harvested in the fall before the onset of rainy weather.

To get an early harvest, carrots are planted before winter.

"Special" (lat. Dolor sit amet speciali)

"Nantes 4" (lat. Nantes)

Preparing carrot seeds for planting

"Finkhor" (lat. Finnish Choir)

Early varieties are most often used for processing and consumption. The rest of the species are well suited for storage.

Planting carrot seeds

After loosening and removing weeds, sprinkle the aisles with ash, celandine powder, chamomile.

1. To prevent this from happening, watering should be done regularly and in moderation. For these purposes, it is best to take the settled water. Frequency once every two weeks. At the same time, water in several steps so that the soil can be saturated with moisture to a sufficient depth. Surface irrigation causes branching of the crop. All humidification should be stopped a few weeks before harvesting.
2. Growing cucumbers in the open field. Practical advice from experienced gardeners.
3. Felt disease (red rot). It is characterized by purple and brown spots on roots. Over time, in place of the spots, black sclerotia of fungi form. The cause of the disease is fungi. High temperatures and high humidity during storage of carrots can provoke the formation of rot.

Yellowing of leaves, spots on the stems of brown

Carrots are recommended to be harvested in the fall before the onset of rainy weather, then they will be well stored. Before placing vegetables in a cool place (basement, cellar), you need to dry them in a dark room and cut off the tops. Root crops with a not very good appearance, deformed or with traces of damage by insects should not be placed together with good carrots, otherwise the entire crop will be lost.

• Seedlings will appear as soon as the air temperature is set at 3 degrees. Landing should be done in a well-lit and wind-protected area. The soil should be loose, with a lot of organic matter. If the soil is poor, it is worth adding nitrogen substances to it in the amount of 15 g per square meter.
• Yielding variety, sowing possible before winter

The variety is suitable for sowing before winter

The variety does not require hilling, ripening lasts for 80 daysEarly varieties ripen already on the 65-90th day.

Thinning, weeding and watering carrots

I personally try not to use chemicals.

These simple agronomic techniques allow you to grow carrots exactly the same as in the picture of the seed bags.

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Often, the disease affects vegetables during their growth, but develops already in storage. It is recommended to store the affected crop separately from healthy root crops.

Application of the fungicide "Hom"

Carrots can suffer from several pests and diseases at the same time.

Carrot shoots will appear as soon as the air temperature is set at 3 degrees

Fruits are conical, juicy, reddish

Carrots do not require special care, but the growing rules must be followed. It is a drought-resistant crop that tolerates frosts and prolonged cold snaps well. How to grow carrots? The secrets, like other vegetables, lie in the correct agricultural technology. It requires more maintenance than other crops. Let's take a closer look at how to grow carrots in your country house or garden plot with your own hands.

Soil preparation

It is required to choose a bright place before growing carrots. The secrets lie in the fact that with a lack of sunlight due to a falling shadow or an uneven surface of the garden, the roots lose their sugar content and mass.

Before you can grow a good crop of carrots, you need to choose a light and level soil. It should be sandy loam, light loamy, with good drainage. In dense loam, the fruits grow small; during storage, they are quickly affected by rot. Carrots should not be planted in acidic soils. It requires a neutral or slightly acidic environment.

Before growing good carrots, you need to prepare the soil. The garden bed is prepared in the fall so that it settles. It is made loose. To do this, add sawdust, humus, peat or sand. For liming, chalk, lime, dolomite, ash are used. You should not use manure for growing carrots, since you get not very beautiful and poorly stored root crops. Humus should be introduced into poor soil - a bucket per square meter.If the groundwater is close, the bed is made high.

The arable layer is well formed with the help of green manure roots - plants that create a good soil structure. They are sown in the garden in the fall, in order to plant carrots in this place in the spring. Also, worms and microorganisms create a good soil structure.

Carrot beds should be constantly changed. The predecessors should be garlic, onions, cabbage, potatoes. How to grow large carrots if you have to grow the same crop in one place? This will help the introduction of wood ash twice a year in the amount of 0.2 kg / m2, followed by digging.

In the spring, a week before planting, the bed is leveled, loosened, treated with a 0.3% solution of vitriol, watered with warm water, and then covered with a polyethylene film. During this time, it will retain moisture and warm up well in the sun.

How to prepare seeds for sowing

The germination rate of carrot seeds is low - 55-75%. In this regard, the seeds should be taken fresh. In addition, carrots do not germinate evenly. The first shoots should appear in 2-3 weeks. Seeds germinate for a long time due to the presence of essential oils on their surface, which slow down the penetration of moisture.

Before growing good carrots, the seeds must be prepared for sowing. Let's consider several ways to pre-germinate them.

Soak

The seeds are poured into cloth bags and kept in warm water for 24 hours. The water must be changed every four hours. A nutrient solution can be made from it by adding wood ash (30 g / l). After that, the seeds must be rinsed.

The method will be more effective if additionally hardened. Seeds in wet bags are placed in the refrigerator for 2-5 days.

Soaking with nutrient solution

Use a weak solution of potassium permanganate with the addition of ½ teaspoon of fertilizer per liter of water or a mixture of nitrophoska and boric acid (1/3 teaspoon and 1/2 teaspoon per liter of water, respectively). The seeds are scattered on a gauze folded several times, and also covered with it on top and poured with a solution for a day. The liquid level should be just above the fabric. Then they are washed with water and refrigerated for three to four days.

If the weather does not allow planting seeds, they are left on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator, keeping them moist all the time. In this case, you need to ensure that they do not germinate more than 0.5 cm.

Heat treatment

Heat treatment of seeds consists in their successive immersion in hot and cold water. They are poured into a bag and rinsed at a temperature of 50 degrees, and then dipped in a humate solution and kept warm for two days. As a result, the germination of not only carrots, but also parsley and dill is accelerated.

Bubbling

Sparging speeds up the seed preparation process. An air or oxygen supply hose with an emery stone filter at the end is brought to the bottom of a non-metallic container with water. A mesh with seeds is placed on top.

In the process of bubbling, the water is saturated with air. At home, a small aquarium compressor is enough for this. The time for bubbling carrot seeds is 17-24 hours. After that, the material is removed to the middle shelf of the refrigerator, where it is stored for 3-5 days. Before sowing, the seeds are dried for 12 hours to make them free-flowing, and sown.

Burying seeds in the soil

Dry seeds are placed in cloth bags and buried in the ground with a shovel to the depth of one bayonet, where they should be for at least 10-12 days. Then they are taken out and sown in the garden. After such treatment, seedlings should appear in five days.

Another method is to mix the seeds with moist peat and keep them in a warm place for at least one week. During this period, they have time to germinate, after which they are sown. Before planting in the ground, the seeds are dried for 20-25 minutes on parchment or cloth at room temperature.

How to grow carrots. Sowing and Care Secrets

Before planting, seeds are selected and purchased that are most suitable for a particular region. You can also get them yourself. Before growing carrot seeds, find a good and large root vegetable and then plant it in the spring. It will ripen by autumn.

Carrots grow for about three months. To get a harvest in September, planting should be done no later than May. Sowing dates are from late April to early June. Landing before May 5 is considered optimal.

Before winter, carrots are planted when the soil becomes cold enough. This can be from late October to early November. Sowing and harvesting times depend on the variety and region. Northern varieties should not be planted in the south as they will grow slowly. If southern varieties are grown in the middle lane, they give abundant tops, and root crops do not develop at the same time. Some varieties bred abroad are poorly stored.

Harvesting should be done on time, otherwise the beneficial properties and keeping quality of root crops may deteriorate.

Small carrot seeds should be spread evenly in the groove. Therefore, they are mixed with sand or peat and sown in a garden bed.

How to properly grow carrots so that neighboring rows do not interfere with growing? To ensure sufficient illumination, it is better to make the beds narrow - no more than four rows of carrots. Bumpers are made along the edge to prevent water from flowing off. The distance between the rows should be 15 cm, and for late varieties - 20 cm. The bed is watered and sprinkled with ash. The seeds are placed in the grooves at a distance of about 2.5 cm.

In spring-summer plantings, the swollen seeds are planted shallowly - by 3-4 cm. They should be sprinkled with very light soil, which is used as black soil mixed with peat, sand or humus. Then a ventilation gap is made of film over the bed at a distance of about 12-15 cm.

The first shoots in warm weather appear in a week. If the temperature is below 12 degrees, the time is doubled. If there are vacant places, additional sowing is done.

For many gardeners, the question of how to grow early carrots is a problem. In fact, it is not difficult. In the fall, early varieties of carrots are sown to a depth of 2 cm, and then sprinkled with mulch to a height of 3-4 cm. In this case, the soil temperature should be below +5 degrees. When there is little snow in winter, the beds are additionally covered with it to a height of 50 cm. With this method of planting, the crop is harvested earlier than usual for 2-3 weeks.

Thinning of plants

How to grow a good harvest of carrots if they sprout perfectly? To do this, you need to do a thorough thinning of the seedlings after the appearance of the third leaf. All this is not as simple as it seems at first glance. For the plants to be well removed, the garden should be watered, and the soil should be carefully loosened. In addition, the operation should be performed during the day, so as not to attract a pest - a carrot fly that flies in the evening.

The sprouts should be removed with tweezers, leaving a distance of at least 2 cm. The smallest shoots are removed. The tops are thrown away from the garden. In no case should you leave it nearby, so as not to attract pests. Onion shooters, which are chopped up and scattered around the garden, are a good deterrent. You can cover crops with special material. The ground around the plants is slightly crushed. After 20 days, the thinning is repeated. In this case, a distance of 6 cm is left between the carrots.

Row spacings need to be loosened and weeded (at least once a week) so that the roots receive a sufficient amount of oxygen. After thinning the aisles, mulch with compost or sawdust soaked for several weeks in a 2-3% urea solution.

How to grow large carrots? The correct dosage of fertilizers is needed here. They cannot be applied in large quantities at once. Carrot beds begin to fertilize with mineral water when 5-6 sheets appear.The frequency of feeding is 2-4 weeks. This culture is particularly disliked by excess nitrogen.

As it grows, the top of the root crop comes out of the ground and turns green. It doesn't hurt, but it tastes worse. How to grow sweet carrots so that they do not lose their taste? When root crops appear from the ground, they are huddled, raking up the earth on them with a height of about 50 mm.

Watering carrot beds

Poor germination of carrots is primarily associated with drying out of the soil. Until she has risen, the top layer of the bed should be constantly wet. Sometimes the soil should be watered even several times a day. Granular seeds are especially difficult to germinate. Immediately after sowing, the bed is protected with a foil so that the top layer does not dry out.

Until the roots appear, watering is done after 3-4 days, 3-4 buckets per 1 m2. At the same time, they grow independently in depth and find moisture. Therefore, watering is carried out once a week at 1-2 buckets per m2, and from the end of August - once every 1.5-2 weeks at 8-10 liters per square. The beds are kept for two weeks without watering until harvest.

Rough root vegetables are an indicator that they lacked moisture. With an excess of it, the fruits grow small. Also, sharp drops from drying to excess moisture are harmful, leading to cracking of the carrot and subsequent poor preservation.

Carrots are not afraid of cold weather, but at temperatures below 8 degrees, the starch in the root crops turns into sugar, the keeping quality of the root crops deteriorates. In the middle lane, the crop is harvested at the end of September in dry weather.

The harvested carrots are dried for 1.5-2 hours, and then the tops are trimmed. The harvest is sorted, even carrots are placed in a ventilated box in a dark and cool place. This can be a cellar or basement.

Conclusion

You can never get a good harvest if you don't know how to grow carrots. The secrets of agricultural technology lie in the correct preparation of the soil, competent planting and care. As a result, in the fall, you will get large and even root crops.