8 Review (s)

  1. I. Orlova Leningrad region

    My carrots often come out with green tops. Does this mean that solanine accumulates in it, like in potatoes? Do I need to cut off these unwanted parts of the root vegetable or can they still be eaten without harm to health?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      The carrot tops were peeking out of the ground, so they turned green under the influence of the sun's rays. Usually the root crop is exposed after rains or watering, when the soil sags. A green layer of tissue can also appear inside the root crop when the leaves do not provide enough shade and bright rays penetrate through the lumps of earth. To prevent this from happening, you need to mulch the beds and try not to damage the vegetables when weeding and loosening.

      Chlorophyll gives carrots their green color. The same thing happens with potato tubers turning green in the sun, but at the same time they also produce a poisonous plant glycoside, solanine, which in a certain amount can cause poisoning of the body. Many people think that it is this that gives the tubers their green color, but in fact it is the same pigment chlorophyll that colors them, since solanine is colorless. It is found in all nightshades, but only causes problems in potatoes when too much of it accumulates.
      That’s why carrots that turn green are not harmful, but their taste deteriorates and becomes bitter. “Improperly colored fragments of the root crop are usually cut off.

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  2. Lidia Shkvalova, Narovlya

    I found that carrot roots grow thin and covered with black spots. It's a disease? How to prevent it next year?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      - Most likely, carrots are affected by brown rot (phoma). Its first signs are spots, as well as transverse stripes on root crops. The next stage will appear already during storage - then pronounced dark spots, ulcers and white rot will form on the surface of the root crops. If the root crop is cut, a soft and loose tissue will be visible.

      Nothing can be done this year, but so that the disease does not return in the future, treat the seeds before sowing, change the place where carrots are grown, and, as an ideal option, before sowing carrots, grow green manure in this area: mustard, rye, oats or rapeseed (they perfectly heal the soil). In addition, thin out crops in a timely manner. Water without flooding the plants and preventing the soil from drying out. Do not apply excessive doses of nitrogen fertilizers: carrots love phosphorus and potash more.

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  3. Daniil Makarov, Omsk

    Is it possible to eat carrots in which they cut out a place affected by white rot?

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    • Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

      Carrots, affected by white rot, it is better not to use for food.

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  4. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    I appeal to you for help, dear summer residents. I got a worm in my carrots - white, thin. They said that this is a carrot fly - they say, I sow early. It began to sow on the end of May - the beginning of June, and almost the entire crop is spoiled anyway. This year, the worms also lived in strawberries, which were on the ground, simply stuck on the bottom and crawled inside. In the spring there is no desire even to sow carrots.
    I was prompted here by a remedy: 1 art. l. kerosene for 10 l of water. But can this be applied? And when to water this solution: during the sowing in the furrow or when it will rise?
    Nina

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  5. Iosif VOYTYUK, Kazan

    In the beginning and the middle of May I plant celery seedlings: a part on a separate bed, and a part is point-wise throughout the site, tk. the scent of celery repels pests. Necessarily 3-4 plants I plant on a garden bed to tomatoes, on 4-5 - to cabbage. Care for the celery is simple: I loosen the soil, weed, I water.

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