When to sow carrots: tips and tricks

With the onset of spring, truck farmers are dealing with things that are not surprising, which is not surprising: you need to plow the land, and prepare the beds, and sort out the seeds. In order to get a good harvest, you need to work nice, and all season. Here very opportunely comes to mind an old Russian proverb: "what you sow, you'll reap."

What is the autumn harvest without carrots? Juicy, crunchy, and most importantly even and large fruit - the dream of any trucker. But not everyone can grow such carrots. Perhaps, it's not just about unsuccessfully selected seeds? Let's try to figure out when to sow carrots and how to take care of it so that the capricious vegetable is pleased with the rich harvest.

"Of course, you need to plant it in the spring," - you will answer and will not be quite right. Although the timing of planting vegetables on the plot is approximately the same, this rule does not apply to a vegetable like carrots. There are early, mid-ripening and late - ripening varieties of carrots. The first and second are grown for food in the summer, and the latter for winter storage. The timing of their landing, of course, different.

Early carrots are generally planted in the autumn for winter, or at the worst in April, as soon as the snow comes down and the earth dries a little. The orange vegetable is frost-resistant and easily tolerates a temperature drop of -3 degrees.

When sow carrots srednespeluyu, you will prompt aspen: folk sign says that during the flowering of this tree, it's time to plant the vegetable.

Well, when to sow carrots late, can prompt the lunar calendar. Usually this happens in early June, although you can still wait a little until the middle of the month. Then the vegetable can perfectly lie in the cellar until spring.

So, when we sow carrots, we figured out, now we need to tell a little about choosing a place for a moody vegetable.

If your homestead is in the lowland, then it's worth thinking about high beds for carrots, because it does not tolerate excess moisture, although it likes frequent watering. Also, the place should be sunny, because in the shade the roots practically do not develop. Good predecessors for carrots are cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, zucchini, potatoes. That is, she prefers fertile soil rich in mineral fertilizers. However, carrots do not tolerate fresh manure. It is best to apply fertilizers a year before planting the root crop. Well, if the soil is sand,
Because carrots like loose and light earth.

Root seeds germinate very poorly, because they contain a large number of essential oils. This makes it difficult to get moisture in them. Therefore, before planting in the soil, the seeds must be prepared. First they are soaked for several days, changing the water 2-3 times. It would be nice to season the seeds by lowering them alternately into hot and cold water, but for this you need to observe a strict temperature regime, which is not very convenient in country conditions. There is another popular way: put the seeds in a linen bag and bury them a week before landing at the depth of the spade bayonet. Before sowing, get, slightly ventilate and plant at a distance of 1.5 cm from each other, making furrows of 10-15 cm.

We hope that these simple tips will help you increase the yield of the orange root.