Carrot. Basic growing secrets

The answer to the question of how to grow good harvest carrots in your country house is not as simple as it might seem at first glance.

The quantity and quality of the crop directly depends on the type and condition of the soil.

This useful culture quite demanding in care, loves the light very much and does not tolerate even a slight shading. At the same time, carrots are one of the most drought-resistant crops; they easily tolerate frosts and remain viable during a prolonged cold snap.

The quality of the grown carrot crop is highly dependent on the condition and type of soil. To obtain a rich harvest, it is necessary that the soil be light in texture, its arable layer be deep, fertile and with good drainage. Carrots are best suited to sandy and light loamy soils with a neutral or slightly acidic environment.

The soil for carrots should be light in texture.

Speaking of the arable layer, it must be borne in mind that in eco-farming it is formed not as a result of digging or deep plowing, but with the help of green manure roots - cultivated and weed plants grown as organic fertilizer, microorganisms and worms. They structure the soil layers so carefully that no mechanical effect can be compared with them.

From others vegetable crops carrots also compare favorably with the fact that it is unpretentious to what plants were the owners of the garden before it, but still the best predecessors of carrots are cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, all types of cabbage, potatoes, onions, garlic and any legumes.

Do not grow carrots in the same place for more than 3 years.

How to properly prepare the soil and seeds for sowing

Soil preparation

A bed for carrots begins to be prepared in the fall. Stones are selected from the ground that can prevent root crops from growing. Then humus or compost is added to the poor soil at the rate of 10 liters per 1 sq. m, in acidic - chalk, in heavy - sawdust, river sand and peat. In addition, the bed can be covered with mulch or sowed with green manure.

In the spring, about a week before sowing, clods of earth are broken up with a rake on future beds and their surface is leveled. Then the beds are watered with water at a temperature of + 30-40 ° C, and then covered plastic wrap, which will help protect the soil from drying out and create conditions for its warming.

Seed preparation

Carrots are extremely photophilous - attempts to grow this crop, both in the shade and in partial shade, are completely useless.

Carrot seeds have low (only 55-75%) germination. Therefore, it is necessary to sow exclusively fresh seeds.

Carrots sprout for a long time and unfriendly. This happens approximately 14-20 days after sowing. Such a long germination is explained by the fact that carrot seeds contain essential oils, preventing the penetration of moisture into them, as a result, the process of swelling and germination slows down. Seed growth begins only after the essential oils are washed off their shell, therefore, when the weather is dry, the germination of root crops is delayed. To prevent this from happening, carrot seeds must be prepared for sowing.

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Methods for pre-sowing seed preparation

• soak;

The seeds fall asleep in fabric pouches and immersed in warm (+30°C) water for a day, which must be changed every 4 hours. Seeds can also be soaked in a nutrient water solution of wood ash (1 tablespoon of ash per 1 liter of water). After soaking, the seeds must be rinsed in clean running water.

Experienced gardeners to obtain best result combine soaking with hardening. To do this, wet cloth bags with seeds are placed in the refrigerator and kept for 2 to 5 days.

• heat treatment;

Cloth bags with carrot seeds are dipped for 20 minutes in hot (+50 ° C), and then for 2 minutes in cold water.

• bubbling;

Thanks to bubbling, the seeds ripen faster.

Seeds are soaked in water saturated with air or oxygen. The bubbling vessel must be made of non-oxidizing materials. A hose is connected to it, through which from the compressor or oxygen cylinder supplies air. A filter from an emery wheel is put on the end of the hose. Above it is placed a grid for collecting seeds, fixed at the ends of the container. The container must have a drain hole. saline solution or water.

In the process of bubbling, the entire layer of water is uniformly saturated with air. On a small, non-industrial scale, a home aquarium compressor can be used. In this case, the ratio of water and seeds should be 5:1. The sparging time for seeds of each crop is different. For carrots, it is from 17 to 24 hours. If air is supplied, and not oxygen, the duration of bubbling is increased by a third.

• burying seeds in the soil;

Cloth bags filled with dry seeds are buried in cold soil for 10-12 days to a depth of one bayonet of a shovel. Seeds treated in this way germinate 4-5 days after sowing.

You can mix the seeds with wet peat and place them in a warm place for one week, where they will germinate. Then sow them as usual.

After using any of the above methods, carrot seeds must be dried for 20-25 minutes at room temperature. Then they are sown in open ground.

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How to sow carrots and care for them

Carrots are grown in a seedless way. At the same time, the terms of its sowing in open ground are as follows:

• in winter: 2nd half of October - 1st decade of November;
• in spring: 3rd decade in April - 1st decade in May and 1st decade in June.

Carrots have small seeds, which makes it difficult to sow them. In order to prevent thickening of crops, a little trick is used. A teaspoon without a hill of seeds is mixed with a glass of sand and 10 square meters are sown with this mixture. m.

Carrots grow better narrow beds with no more than 4 lanes. If it is planned to grow only carrots in the garden, the sowing technology is as follows. Before spring sowing, grooves are cut on a previously prepared ridge. The distance between them for medium and early varieties make 15 cm, for later - 20 cm. The grooves are watered. In colder climatic zones for this, hot water heated to + 50 ° C is used. Then the beds are powdered with ash and the prepared seeds are sown on them at a distance of 1.5-2 cm.

Sowing depth and seed condition depend on the season:

For summer and spring sowings, swollen seeds are used. They are planted to a soil depth of 3-4 cm. After sowing, the grooves are carefully sprinkled with soil and mulch (humus or peat). After sowing, the beds are covered with a film, which is raised on bricks by about 5 cm.

Before winter, carrot seeds of early varieties are sown to a depth of approximately 2 cm. They must be dry, and the thickness of the mulch layer is 3-4 cm.

Before winter, carrots are sown when the temperature in the soil drops below + 5 ° C. If the winters are not snowy, the beds with crops are additionally covered with snow, with a layer thickness of 40-50 cm. This technology allows you to harvest 14-20 days earlier.

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Carrot care requires the following conditions

• temperature regime;

For germination of carrot seeds, a temperature of + 3 ... + 5 ° С is sufficient. The air temperature + 20 ... + 22 ° С is considered optimal for normal growth and the formation of high-quality root crops. At the same time, carrots are resistant to cold, their shoots are able to withstand frosts down to -3-4 ° C and die only when the temperature stays below -6 ° C for a long time. The tops of mature plants die when the temperature is below -8°C.

• watering mode;

The volume and frequency of irrigation directly depend on weather conditions and plant age. Basically, carrots need to be watered once every 7 days according to the following scheme:

1. 3 liters of water per 1 sq. m of land at the very beginning of the growing season.
2. 10 liters per 1 sq. m after secondary thinning.
3. 20 l per 1 sq. m during the period of growth of root crops.

When approximately 2 months remain before harvesting, it is necessary to water once every 10-14 days 10 liters of water per 1 sq. m of soil. When 2-3 weeks remain before harvesting the root crops, watering is stopped.

When growing, it is necessary to monitor the soil moisture. The soil should not have both excess and lack of moisture. Carrots, even for a short time, do not tolerate excessive moisture, which causes rotting of root crops, and with prolonged drought, its root crops stop developing, which negatively affects the quality of the crop.

• weeding;

Carrots sprout slowly, and the beds with it quickly sprout with weeds. To avoid the growth of weeds that inhibit the development of carrot shoots, they must be disposed of. The first time carrots are weeded 10-12 days after the first true leaf appears on the plant. The second is 8-10 days after the next true leaf appears.

Weeding is combined with loosening the soil and thinning seedlings and is carried out after heavy rain or regular watering.

• top dressing;

After 3-4 weeks, which have passed after the seeds hatched and the first sprouts appeared, the first feeding of the plants is carried out. aqueous solution chicken manure, mullein, humus or ash (1:10). If necessary, during the formation of root crops and plant growth, feeding is repeated. In areas where it is practiced organic farming, due to which a layer of humus is formed in the soil, fertilizing is optional.

To avoid thickening, carrots are thinned out twice: 11-12 and 19-20 days after the first shoots appear. After the first thinning, the interval between adjacent shoots should be approximately 3 cm, after the next thinning - 5 cm. This procedure is best done in the morning, after which the bed must be watered. Experienced gardeners cultivate the soil on which carrots grow with ground red pepper (hot, hot or bitter). This will muffle the smell characteristic of carrots and protect them from carrot flies. Another effective method protection against this pest - combined planting of carrots and onions. Mulching should not be neglected, which significantly saves the effort and time needed to get a good harvest.

Anyone can grow long and even root crops on their site. The main thing in this matter is not to be lazy and do all the necessary agricultural work as needed. So, let's begin.

The first thing to do is find a suitable planting site and prepare the soil. The quality of carrots directly depends on the type of land. Therefore, for this, on the one hand, unpretentious vegetable, it is necessary to choose light in mechanical composition, fertile places where there is good drainage. In addition, the place where the bed will be located should be flat, as open as possible and well lit. It should also be taken into account at this stage that the best predecessors for carrots are onions, cabbage, early potatoes, especially if they were brought under organic fertilizers. But the beds where celery (celery, cumin, dill, fennel) grew before that, and it is better not to use carrots in this case, since it is unlikely that you will be able to grow a good harvest. How to grow carrots if the plot is small and land rotation is difficult to carry out? Everything is quite simple: since the situation is almost hopeless, only a strong ashing of the soil remains: 0.2-0.3 kg of wood ash is scattered on one square meter of soil and dug up. The operation is performed twice a year.

As for the preparation of the soil itself, this must be done in the fall, so that the land has time to settle before sowing. Previously, the place where the vegetable will grow is cleared of stones, after which they are carefully dug up, digging for a bayonet or even two, and form high bed. If necessary, fertilizing should be applied to poor soils - humus; in heavy soils - peat, sawdust and river sand; acidic lands are alkalized with chalk (lime). But in any case, fresh manure is not recommended to be applied, otherwise the root crops may grow ugly. Growing carrots in soils with a high level ground water without a significant rise in the height of the ridge will lead to the ugliness of the crop.

In the spring, when the bed warms up, 7-10 days before planting, it is necessary to loosen the ground well and disinfect it with a solution blue vitriol, which is prepared in the calculation of 1 tbsp. spoon for 10 liters of water. Then water the garden warm water, about 30 - 40⁰С, after which they cover the landing site with a film, best of all dark. The last action will allow the earth to warm up and retain moisture. Of course, the last steps are not necessary if the spring turned out to be hot, and in winter there were considerable snowdrifts. You can also ignore the film if the harvest is supposed to be late. And finally, you can refuse to warm up if you are sure of the quality of the seeds, and also that cold temperature or, even more so, there will definitely be no frosts.

Sowing an orange root crop depends solely on how much moisture is contained in the ground, as well as on the climatic conditions in which it will be grown: if we are talking about the central zone of Russia or a climate similar to it, then the sowing time will be 20-25 April. A little earlier (7-14 days) carrots are planted if the snow has already melted more than 21 days ago and relatively warm weather has set in without night frosts. A little later, carrots should be planted if the weather has not settled down, and at night negative values ​​\u200b\u200bof the thermometer are observed. But do not delay the planting time - it would be optimal to land before the fifth of May, provided there is a complete absence of snow and the frequent absence of frosts. In the southern regions, carrots are planted in two stages - March 10-20 (for summer consumption) and June 10-15 (seed planting and for winter consumption).

Seeds should be treated with warm water (rinse two or three times), and then covered in a damp cloth for swelling and passage of moisture to the seed through the crust containing a large number of hydrophobic essential oils. If this is not done, then there is a high probability of a delay in seedlings for a period of 2-3 weeks, which worsens the ripening of the root crop. Also, to accelerate seedlings, you can carry out the following procedures:

• Bubbling. Carrot seeds are placed in a vessel with water, the temperature of which is above room temperature (optimally - 25g. C). Water is aerated air pomp during the day, after which planting material removed and put into the refrigerator on the middle shelf, where it is stored for about 3-5 days. 12 hours before sowing, they are removed from the refrigerator and dried to flowability, after which they are planted in beds. Germination in this case will take 5-7 days.
• Burrowing into the soil. Dry planting material is placed in a linen bag and buried in a bed at the depth of a spade bayonet. Neither watering nor fertilizer is produced. After about 1.5-2 weeks, the bag is removed, its contents are dried on a dry cloth or parchment and planted in a garden bed. Germination will take approximately 4-5 days.
  
  
• nutrient solution. The seed is laid out on a fabric base, covered with a cloth on top, poured with a nutrient solution for 24 hours. A mixture of boric acid, nitrophoska and water can act as a nutrient medium (ratio of 1/3 teaspoon, 1/2 teaspoon and 1 liter of water, respectively); or potassium permanganate, dissolved in a liter of water until red, 1/2 teaspoon of fertilizer. After soaking, the seed is washed in warm water and put in the refrigerator for half a week. After being removed from the refrigerator, they are dried to flowability and planted in the ground.
  
  

Carrots are planted along the grooves made in the garden. Best to do in the following way: the width of the furrow is the size of a matchbox, the depth is half of it, the interval is 200-240mm. The extreme furrows are located 120 mm from the edges of the beds. The width of the furrow should not exceed 900mm (respectively, the ridge should be 1.1m). Before planting, the bed is shed with a strong solution of potassium permanganate. Seeds are scattered with a snake in a furrow with a step of 10-15 mm, after which mulching is carried out with soil, peat or peat-sand mixture. The planted ridge is covered with a film with a ventilation gap of 120-150 mm. Shelter will not only improve the preservation of heat and moisture, but also prevent the appearance of a carrot fly - a pest that can destroy the crop.

Landing Care

Growing a good crop requires mandatory care, but caring for a planted root crop is quite simple: it is enough to thin out the bed in time, loosen the soil as necessary, weed, feed and, of course, water.

Step 1 Thinning is carried out as the tops grow.

It is necessary to thin out the carrots at the first shoots; the smallest (and therefore the least viable) shoots are pulled out with an interval of 20-25 mm between root crops. The second thinning is carried out in June-July with an interval of 75-100 mm. The second thinning allows the extracted roots to be used for food or livestock feed. It may be necessary to defuse the carrots for the third time if the fruits obviously interfere with each other.

Step 2 It is important not to forget to feed the carrots

In the period from the appearance of the fifth or sixth leaves + 2-3 days, mineral fertilizers are applied. After feeding, the first hilling can be done, which is repeated after the first thinning, after the second thinning and then every 2-4 weeks. Hilling helps to cover the fruit in the ground, avoid sunburn and greening of the shoulders. Also, when growing, you can adhere to the three-phase method: 5,7,10 leaves. But it should be borne in mind that in any case, the fruits should be underground at a depth of about 50mm.

Step 3 Watering carrots

Watering carrots should be intensive enough to prevent drying of the soil, but not excessive to prevent its hypothermia. The best thing is uniform watering, because with a lack of water, the roots become coarse and “wooden, with an excess - small and tasteless. Best to stick with next tactic glaze:

Harvest and storage

Harvesting takes place in late September - early October. The root crop is pulled out of the ground by the tops, after which it is placed on the ground nearby for quick removal excess moisture from its surface. If loosening and weeding during the growing period were not done regularly and the soil hardened, it is possible to dig in with a garden bracket. But this must be done in such a way as not to damage the fetus.

If the harvest is carried out in rainy weather, then the harvested carrots are laid out in a dry room. Total time drying is about 1-1.5 hours (i.e. until the visible drying of the surface).

After drying, it is necessary to trim the tops. It is most convenient to do this with a knife or garden pruner if the tops are powerful and thick. The greens are cut off at the root, without damaging the root crop. At the same time, the crop is sorted: all damaged, rotten, crooked fruits are discarded. Smooth, undamaged carrots are placed in a ventilated box and stored in a cool, dark place.

Carrots are one of the basic vegetables in the diet. It is used in the preparation of many dishes from soups to side dishes. In addition, everyone knows beneficial features carrot juice. carrots in fresh stored for a long time, so in winter it is one of the main sources of vitamins. How nice it is to eat fresh carrot salad in winter! It is not surprising that this vegetable can be found in almost every garden.

Carrots are considered an undemanding vegetable., and novice gardeners do not pay due attention to it. But, unfortunately, this leads to a poor harvest. So let's figure out how to properly grow carrots.

Particular attention should be paid to the choice of a place for planting carrots. Both excessively wet and dry soil are not suitable for this vegetable. In the first case, the carrot begins to rot, in the second it grows, dry and tasteless. The soil should be light and loose. It is also necessary to take into account the fact that carrots categorically do not like land fertilized with manure, even if this fertilizer was applied in the fall. Therefore, it is recommended to use only mineral fertilizers, which must be applied a month before planting.

Carrots do not grow well in beds where parsley and lettuce were grown in the previous year. From year to year, planting carrots in the same place is also not recommended. This vegetable is suitable for areas where garlic, onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage or potatoes were grown.

Carrots are sown in late April - early May. By this time, the earth will warm up enough, but remain wet. Carrots can be planted earlier, but in this case, the crops should be covered with a film. Most gardeners recommend soaking seeds in water before planting. warm water or biologically active solution.

The earth in the garden should be well loosened. Then, every 20 cm, make shallow grooves. It is convenient to push them with the edge of the board. The furrows are shed with water and start sowing.

Carrot seeds are very small, which creates inconvenience when planting. On sale you can find seeds glued on a thin paper tape. Such a tape can also be made by hand, using thin strips of tissue paper and a flour-based paste. The paste is applied with a toothpick to the paper at a distance of 2-5 cm, and a carrot seed is glued on top. The resulting tapes are rolled into grooves and sprinkled with a centimeter layer of earth. Many gardeners choose this method, because in the future, when the first shoots appear, carrots will not need to be thinned out.

You can use another method that is suitable for planting any small seeds. The seeds are mixed with fine sand in a ratio of 1:5. The grooves are sprinkled with this mixture.

When the carrots put out their first true leaves, they need to be thinned out. Carrots are thinned out, leaving the strongest seedlings. At the same time, they try to keep the distance between the remaining shoots about 3-4 cm. If the carrots were planted with paper tapes, then at this stage it does not need thinning. The second thinning must be carried out when the tops grow to 10 cm. During the second thinning, the distance between shoots is increased to 6 cm.

Carrots need regular watering. It is enough to water it twice a week. The soil must not be waterlogged, otherwise the carrots will begin to rot.

Also, do not forget about the regular weeding. The first weeding is done 10 days after sowing carrots.

Carrots are considered fully ripe when Bottom part tops begin to turn yellow. Depending on the composition of the soil, carrots are dug with a pitchfork or a shovel. Then cut off the tops, leaving 2 cm at the base. Carrots are left for 5 days in a dry place, closed from sunlight, so that it dries out. After that, the carrots are placed in boxes, sprinkled with sand, and placed in the basement.

sticking to simple rules growing carrots, you will get a good harvest.

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How to plant carrots

Many gardeners do not know why carrots are bitter in winter and what needs to be done to make carrots long and juicy.

In vain, some gardeners believe that grow carrots on the suburban area is an a simple matter. Despite the simple and affordable agricultural technology of this root crop, in order to get a decent harvest, you have to work hard.
Growing long and even root crops is within the power of any gardener. Just don't be lazy. Fulfill necessary work carrot care and get a good harvest.

How to grow carrots in your garden

The first step is to select suitable place for planting and soil preparation. The type of soil directly affects the quality of carrots. This unpretentious vegetable is planted on light-textured, fertile lands with good drainage. In addition, it is necessary to choose a flat, maximally open and well-lit place for beds. It is best to plant carrots in places where onions, cabbage, early potato, especially if the soil has been fertilized with organic fertilizers.

And in places where before that there were beds of celery (celery, cumin, dill, fennel), as well as carrots, it is better not to plant carrots, because you will not get a good harvest. On the small areas with complex rotation, you can grow carrots. Do not consider such a situation hopeless - greatly ash the soil: take wood ash in the amount of 0.2-0.3 kg, and scatter it on one square meter soil. Then dig. Do this twice a year.

The very same soil is prepared in the fall, so that the soil is settled before sowing. Clean the places where you plan to plant vegetables from stones, carefully dig (one or two bayonets), forming high beds.

If necessary, feed poor soil with humus, heavy soil with peat, sawdust and river sand, add chalk or lime to acidic soil. It is not recommended to apply fresh manure in order to avoid getting ugly root crops. If carrots are grown in soils with high level groundwater, without raising the height of the beds, it can grow ugly.

In the spring, the beds warm up, and 7-10 days before planting carrots, carefully loosen the ground and disinfect it with a solution of copper sulfate, prepared at the rate of 1 table. spoon for 10 liters of water. Then water the beds with warm water (about 40 degrees), and cover the planting site with dark plastic wrap. Thanks to the last actions, the earth will warm up and retain moisture. With hot springs and snowy winters, and if you are waiting for a late harvest, this is not necessary. With full confidence that the carrot seeds are of high quality, and frosts are not expected, you can refuse to warm up.

Sowing carrots depends on the amount of moisture in the ground and the climatic conditions in which it is grown: in the central zone of Russia, sowing is carried out between April 20 and 25. A little earlier (one or two weeks), root crops are planted when three weeks have passed after the snow melted, after the establishment of relatively warm weather, excluding night frosts.

Carrots are planted even later if frosts persist at night. But do not delay the landing - optimal time no later than May 5th. The southern regions can plant root crops in two stages: for summer use - March 10-20, for seeds and winter use - June 10-15.

In order for the seeds to swell and moisture to pass through the crust, which contains a sufficient amount of hydrophobic essential oils, they are rinsed two or three times with warm water, and then covered with a damp cloth. If this is ignored, most likely, the seedlings will be late for 2-3 weeks, the ripening of root crops will worsen.

To speed up seedlings, it is necessary to carry out the following procedures:

bubbling

Placement of carrot seeds in a vessel, the water in which has a temperature of about 25 degrees. During the day, the water is aerated by an air pump, and then the seeds are stored in a refrigerator for middle shelf about 5 days. Before sowing (12 hours before), the seeds are taken out of the refrigerator and dried well. Then they are planted in the beds. They will germinate within 5-7 days.

Digging into the soil

Dry seeds are placed in a bag made of natural fabric and buried in beds (depth - a bayonet of a shovel). They are not watered or fertilized. After a couple of weeks, the bag is removed, and the seeds are dried on a dry cloth or parchment. Then they are planted in beds. They will germinate in 4-5 days.

Use of nutrient solution

Seeds are laid out on fabric, a canvas is placed on top. All this is poured for a day with a nutrient solution. The nutrient medium can be different:

1. mixed up boric acid, nitrophoska and water in the ratio: 1/3 teaspoon: 1/2 teaspoon: 1 liter.
2. In a liter of water, potassium permanganate is mixed with water until a red solution is obtained, and ½ teaspoon of fertilizer is added.

After soaking, it is necessary to rinse the seeds with warm water and put in the refrigerator for 3-4 days. Before planting, they are dried to flowability. Then it is planted in the ground.

Carrots are planted with grooves that have been previously made in the beds. Optimal planting is as follows: furrow width matchbox, half its depth, distance - 200-240 mm.

The extreme furrow should be located from the edge of the bed by 120 mm. The furrow should have a width not exceeding 900 mm, and the ridge should be 1.1 meters. Before planting the seeds, water the bed strong mortar potassium permanganate. Scatter the seeds with a snake (step - 10-15 mm). Then mulch using soil, peat or peat-sand mixture. Cover the landing with a film, leaving a ventilation gap (120-150 mm). Thanks to the shelter with a film, heat and moisture are better preserved, and the film also prevents the appearance of a pest (carrot fly) that can destroy the crop.

The procedure for caring for planted carrots

In order to grow a good crop of carrots, proper care is required, which will not be difficult. This is the timely thinning of the beds, loosening the soil, weeding, fertilizing and watering root crops.

Getting a rich harvest of carrots in your summer cottage.

Thin out carrots as they grow

As soon as the first shoots appear, the smallest shoots are pulled out, maintaining an interval of 20-25 mm between root crops. The second time thinned out in June or July, observing an interval of 75-100 mm. At the second thinning, carrots removed from the ground are suitable for human and animal food. You can thin out three times if the root crops interfere with each other's growth.

Feed your carrots

When the fifth or sixth leaves appear, after 2-3 days it is necessary to apply mineral fertilizers. Having fed the plant, hilling is done for the first time, repeating it after each thinning, and then once every 2-4 weeks. Thanks to hilling, the fruits hide in the ground, do not receive sunburn and greening of the shoulders.
When growing carrots, some gardeners use a three-phase method: 5, 7, 10 leaves. In all cases, the required soil depth for root crops is approximately 50 mm.

How to water carrots

Carrots should be watered intensively so that the soil does not dry out, but not excessively so that it does not overcool. It is optimal to adhere to uniform watering: if there is not enough water, the carrots will be coarse, and if there is an excess, they will be small and tasteless. Adhere to the following scheme when watering:

1. From the appearance of the first shoots to the beginning of the formation of root crops, regular watering is necessary: ​​once in 3-4 days. At the same time, for 1 sq. meter is poured 3-4 liters of water.
2. When carrots appear until the end of summer: once a week (10-20 liters of water). The amount of water depends on the weather. If the weather is dry, there is more water. With precipitation lasting for 5 days, watering is done 5 days after it ends.
3. From the end of August: 1 time in 1.5-2 weeks (8-10 liters of water per 1 sq. meter).
4. Two weeks before harvest, stop watering the root crops.

How to harvest and store crops

Harvest time is late September - early October. Root crops are removed from the ground by the tops, and placed next to the ground to remove excess moisture from their surface.

If, while growing carrots, you irregularly loosen the earth and weed the beds, the earth may harden. Then you will have to extract the root crops by digging them with a garden staple. This is done very carefully, in order to avoid damage to the fruits of carrots.

When harvested in the rain, the carrots are then laid out in a dry place. Drying can continue for 1-1.5 hours until the surface is completely dry.

Then cut the tops with a garden knife or secateurs. It is cut at the root, trying not to damage the root itself. At the same time, the crop is sorted: damaged, rotten and crooked fruits are culled. The rest of the carrots should be stored in a ventilated box in a cool and dark place.

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Breakfast toast with avocado and egg salad is a great start to the day. The egg salad in this recipe acts as a thick sauce that is seasoned with fresh vegetables and shrimp. My egg salad quite unusual, this is a dietary version of everyone's favorite snack - with Feta cheese, Greek yogurt and red caviar. If you have time in the morning, never deny yourself the pleasure of cooking something tasty and healthy. The day should start with positive emotions!

Perhaps every woman at least once received a gift blooming orchid. It is not surprising, because such a lively bouquet looks amazing and blooms for a long time. Orchids are not very difficult to grow. indoor crops, but not fulfilling the main conditions for their maintenance often leads to the loss of a flower. If you are just getting started with indoor orchids, you should find out the right answers to the main questions on growing these beautiful plants in home.

Lush cheesecakes with poppy seeds and raisins, prepared according to this recipe, are eaten in my family in the blink of an eye. Moderately sweet, plump, tender, with an appetizing crust, without excess oil, in a word, just like mother or grandmother fried in childhood. If the raisins are very sweet, then granulated sugar can not be added at all, without sugar, cheesecakes will be better fried and will never burn. Cook them in a well-heated frying pan, greased with oil, over low heat and without a lid!

Cherry tomatoes differ from their large counterparts not only in the small size of the berries. Many varieties of cherry are characterized by a unique sweet taste, which is very different from the classic tomato. Anyone who has never tasted such cherry tomatoes with their eyes closed may well decide that they are tasting some unusual Exotic fruits. In this article, I will talk about five different cherry tomatoes that have the sweetest fruits of unusual colors.

I started growing annual flowers in the garden and on the balcony more than 20 years ago, but I will never forget my first petunia, which I planted in the country along the path. Only a couple of decades have passed, but one wonders how different petunias of the past are from today's many-sided hybrids! In this article, I propose to trace the history of the transformation of this flower from a simpleton into a real queen of annuals, as well as consider modern varieties of unusual colors.

Salad with spicy chicken, mushrooms, cheese and grapes - fragrant and satisfying. This dish can be served as a main dish if you are preparing a cold dinner. Cheese, nuts, mayonnaise are high-calorie foods, combined with spicy fried chicken and mushrooms, you get a very nutritious snack that is refreshed by sweet and sour grapes. The chicken fillet in this recipe is marinated in a spicy mixture of ground cinnamon, turmeric and chili powder. If you like food with a spark, use hot chili.

The question is how to grow healthy seedlings, all summer residents are concerned in early spring. It seems that there are no secrets here - the main thing for fast and strong seedlings is to provide them with warmth, moisture and light. But in practice, in a city apartment or a private house, this is not so easy to do. Certainly, everyone experienced gardener there is a proven way to grow seedlings. But today we will talk about a relatively new assistant in this matter - the propagator.

The variety of tomato "Sanka" is one of the most popular in Russia. Why? The answer is simple. He is the very first to bear fruit in the garden. Tomatoes ripen when other varieties have not even faded yet. Of course, if you follow the recommendations for growing and make an effort, even a novice grower will get a rich harvest and joy from the process. And so that efforts are not in vain, we advise you to plant high-quality seeds. For example, such as seeds from TM "Agrosuccess".

Task indoor plants in the house - decorate your home with your appearance, create a special atmosphere of comfort. For this we are ready to take care of them regularly. Care is not only watering on time, although this is also important. It is necessary to create other conditions: suitable lighting, humidity and air temperature, make the correct and timely transplant. For experienced flower growers there is nothing supernatural in this. But beginners often face certain difficulties.

Tender chicken breast cutlets with champignons are easy to prepare according to this recipe with step by step photos. There is an opinion that it is difficult to cook juicy and tender cutlets from chicken breast, this is not so! Chicken meat contains practically no fat, which is why it is dry. But, if you add cream to the chicken fillet, White bread and mushrooms with onions, you get awesome tasty cutlets that both children and adults will like. In the mushroom season, try adding forest mushrooms to the minced meat.