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  1. Yuri KUHLIVSKY, city of Kaliningrad

    More than once I came across the fact that carrot seeds germinate about three weeks after sowing. During this time, the bed has time to thoroughly overgrow with weeds. In order not to damage the barely noticeable shoots during weeding, I resort to a simple trick.

    I buy carrot seeds on ribbons so that they are one at a time.

    I lay the tape in the prepared grooves. Between the seeds of carrots I plant one at a time radish seeds, which sprout quickly. Radish plants are clearly visible, and it is clear where the carrots will grow. This greatly facilitates weeding. By the time the carrots need more space, I have time to remove all the radishes.

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  2. Iosif Vladimirovich VOYTYUK, Tatarstan, Kazan

    Daily use of carrots strengthens the immune system, which is especially important 80 during the flu epidemic. This vegetable has a lot of potassium, so it should be included in your diet for people suffering from cardiovascular diseases. Due to the high content of antioxidants in carrots, its regular use prevents cancer. Carrots are especially useful for those who smoke - this root crop protects the lungs from tobacco smoke. Dishes from an orange root crop quickly satisfy hunger and give a feeling of satiety.
    The following tips, I hope, will help to grow healthy, juicy and tasty root crops.
    You can not sow carrots in the soil, seasoned with fresh manure - root crops will grow "horned".
    The best precursors for carrots are tomatoes, cabbage and cucumbers.
    Carrots are a fairly cold-resistant crop. Its seeds give the first seedlings already at 4-5, and the seedlings can tolerate a drop in temperature to minus 3 degrees.
    The smell of carrots being thinned during thinning attracts a carrot fly. Therefore, you should immediately sow the seeds less often.
    Weeds are best trimmed at the surface. If you pull them out, you can damage the root crops.
    On clay soil, curved root crops grow. On sandy, loose, well-drained soils containing silicon, carrots grow tasty, smooth, with a thin core.
    The first fertilizing with nitrogen fertilizers is carried out when 3-4 leaves are formed on the plants. The second - complex fertilizer after 3-4 weeks. During the period of active growth of root crops and 3 weeks before harvesting, carrots are fed with potash fertilizers.
    With an excess of nitrogen, root crops grow large, but sensitive to damage and disease. With excessive feeding with potassium and phosphorus, tasteless root crops of giant sizes with a thick core grow.
    With a lack of moisture in the soil, root crops grow coarse, woody, and with an excess of them, tops and core grow. With irregular watering, root crops crack.

    To determine the condition of the soil, you need to pull out the root crop and see: if it is wet, the hairs are alive and keep lumps of earth on them, then there is enough water. With drought, the top of the tops as if coagulates, the root crop becomes sluggish. Watering should be regular and plentiful so that the earth gets wet to a great depth.

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  3. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    So that beets and carrots grow large and well stored, thoroughly thin them at the end of summer. Between the beets, leave 6-8 cm, carrots - 4-5 cm. Do not leave the tops on the beds, otherwise the beet and carrot flies will arrive.
    Dmitry DIYAKONOV

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  4. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    In early September, cut the tops of carrots so that there are ponytails without leaflets about 7 cm high. This will protect the root crops from cracking and accelerate their ripening.

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  5. Stepan A. ZHELEZNYAK, Pskov

    Old sources advised to use kerosene to control weeds on carrots. The experiments conducted at that time showed that the plants of the umbrella family are resistant to this fluid, and for other plants it is poisonous.

    It was recommended to use kerosene both before emergence, and after that. In the first case, the treatment is carried out 2-3 days before germination. If time is lost, then this must be done in phase 2 of these leaves. When processing carrots on seedlings, one should not drag out time: the deadline is the achievement of the diameter of 6 mm by the upper part of the root crop. It is also worth considering the stage of development of weeds - kerosene best suppresses them in the phase of 1-3 leaves. If you are late, the weeds are damaged much less.
    Dose per one hundred parts is 2,5-4 l and depends on the degree of contamination and seedling density. After processing, carrots on 5-6 days slow down active growth, but soon recover and continue to develop well.

    Spraying of beds should be made with fresh kerosene in dry, windless, warm weather. When the threat of rain can not be applied this "herbicide" - rain leads to the formation of water-kerosene emulsion that can damage carrots.
    Do not use kerosene if the carrots are planned for harvesting young.

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  6. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    My carrots constantly did not succeed - now small, then clumsy. To be honest, I already despaired of growing it. And somehow, in a conversation over a cup of tea at work, an employee Irina told me how she grows large and beautiful carrots. I immediately adopted her method.

    But the point is that carrots are planted in a furrow next to potatoes in the beginning of May in damp earth, covered with river sand and clapped with a palm. The earth is warming up, carrots are rising, and weeds are perfectly visible on the bright sand.
    I produce watering only if it is very dry, and there is enough moisture. The sand is not earth, it does not cover with a crust, and my carrots very nicely emerge. A separate furrow is clearly visible, the sun warms it up, and carrots grow. Sometimes I’ll die and polish, if it’s dry, that’s all care.
    In August, I take carrots for harvesting, and at the end of September I harvest the roots and enjoy the harvest. I do not observe any curly-curliness. True, in the last two years, following the advice of Dacha, I plant carrots before planting at home. Sprouted, saturated with moisture, it is sown less often, so that later it is not necessary to thin out. And after such sowing comes up in a week.

    When in September I dig my carrot with a pitchfork, I always cut off the tails and tops on the hanger to remove the growing point. I dry it a bit in the sun, then I transfer it to the shed for a draft and there I dry it. I keep in a basement in buckets with sawdust, on sawdust on top I put a sprig of spruce with needles and cover with lids. Why put a Christmas tree? But I don’t know myself, just a big fir tree grows near the house, and because of the wind there are always a lot of branches in the yard. Carrots are stored perfectly, do not germinate and do not rot.

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