Losinoostrovskaya carrot: description, cultivation

To date, truck farmers can choose for themselves the kind of vegetables that they like. Let's talk about a tasty and healthy carrot today. There are many varieties on which the breeders worked, some of them are suitable for obtaining early products, others are used for sowing for the winter.

The main thing for carrots is not only its yield and ability to survive to a new crop, but also that it is a carrier of carotene and sugar. There is no such person who does not like sweet carrots. The most common among truck farmers recently became the Losinoostrovsky variety.

Losinoostrovskaya carrot: description of the variety

This variety belongs to medium-sized vegetables, its growing season is 80-120 days. Carrot leaves have a beautiful green color. Roots are mainly found in the soil, sometimes visible above the surface to 4 cm. On light soil, they are easily pulled out.

Losinoostrovskaya carrot has a root crop of cylindrical shape, intense orange color. Its length is from 15 to 20 cm, weight is 100 or more grams. This variety has indisputable advantages:

• The flesh is rather juicy, orange.
• The core is small, its color is similar to the color of the pulp.
• The tip is obtuse, the surface has small lentils.
• Yield up to 6.5 kg.
• Losinoostrovskaya carrot is almost not susceptible to diseases.
• Resistant to stalking.
• It perfectly tolerates the cold, because of what can be sown under the winter.

This variety is universal. Its excellent taste qualities allow the use of carrots in baby food and for the preparation of juices.

Rules and timing of planting

Smooth beds of carrots with openwork leaves are a real decoration of unsightly sites, even for gardeners who have no experience. Carrots are considered the most revered root vegetable in the vegetable gardens at the present time. Enjoy the good harvest of beautiful even fruits can only be one who adheres to the rules of cultivation.

One of the rules of planting is the timing of sowing carrots. They are directly dependent on the goals of truck farmers and on the characteristics of the variety itself. Losinoostrovskaya carrots from podzimnego sowing is used for summer sales, for long-term storage it is not suitable.

To get early products from carrots sown in the spring, sowing should be done when the soil warms up to +8 degrees. Try to do this early to use all the moisture in the soil. In the southern regions, this will be the end of March or the first days of April. The final period of sowing of carrot seeds in the south of the country is July 20.

Cultivation of carrots

Almost every summer resident has at least a small ridge on which he never forgets to drop carrots. Young carrots for anyone will not be superfluous, you want to taste juicy and delicious root vegetables - went and yanked. But that she grew up healthy and beautiful, will have to work hard.

To grow carrots in your garden, you need to know how to choose the right place for planting. The soil must be loose and fertile. The best predecessors for carrots are cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, legumes and grains, as well as onions.

On poor soil, one can not hope for a good harvest. To fertilize the soil, you need some knowledge. In those areas where the Losinoostrovskaya carrot will be sown, this year it is impossible to make fresh manure. If this rule is violated, the root crops will be branched. To excessive growth of foliage, coarsening of root crops and increase in them of nitrates results a high dose of nitrogen fertilizers.

Carrots respond well to the application of fertilizers containing potassium and calcium. With higher doses of potassium fertilizers, carrots will become sweeter, tastier, and yields will increase markedly.

Losinoostrovskaya carrot: reviews

Carrots of this variety, given the reviews of vegetable growers, are valued for the following qualities: tasty, sweet, mild, cold-resistant, loved by children. Those who have been growing this variety for a number of years, confidently declare that it is at the forefront of the list of vegetables used fresh in the summer.