Watering carrots with kerosene - my reviews
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CARROT CROP
And we, on the contrary, try to plant it as soon as possible, rather than inexpressibly rejoice at the carrot fly. It would seem that everything is simple, but how long and winding is the path from the old habit to a new understanding!
Hands down
I learned how to grow large, long, clean, not shaggy, not horned, not clumsy and, most importantly, not wormy carrots. For many years she planted it in different corners of her plot, read all articles about carrots, planted it with onions, as some summer residents advise, and received, like you, an unpleasant “miracle”. And once she planted a bed of carrots 3 × 3 m where she had never planted anything at all, thought, maybe she’ll freak out in a new place? Thinned, watered, fed, tops grew to knees - green, lush. In the autumn I began to clean, and ... all the fruits with a tennis ball ...
Hands dropped, and one thought in my head: to see, I will not learn how to grow such a carrot - clean, long, which my grandmother had in the village. And what kind of cottage without carrots? Grandchildren, as soon as they arrive, ask: "Grandma, make us your carrot cutlets." It’s strange. What did people who lived in the 60-70s of the last century knew? Why was their carrot never wormy, and in general, where did this misfortune come from - a carrot fly? And why does she only fly to my garden?
Time goes by, I read all the notes about carrots, analyze, plant in different places and start to sin on the ground: the cottage is in the swamp, the soil is acidic, carrots do not want to go deep. Then why is the market selling long, clean, smooth? It also grew on peatlands. So, I'm doing something wrong. A neighbor in a city apartment also does not plant carrots in the village where her mother lives — she does not grow. But there is good land, sand, not peat! I'm confused again.
Carrots and swamp
I live in Belarus, it is important - the climate and the timing of sowing. A plot of 5 acres in the swamp, these are the first summer houses, in the 1980s they were given in bad places. The state paved roads in one swamp, in the second it took out peat, covered it with sand, and then distributed sections. Here is such a peat bog and I got. Then they all brought land to their plots, trees planted closer to the road, and the rest grew on the beds.
My motto: “He who seeks will always find!” I never back down. Reading magazines about vegetable gardens, I stumbled upon a little note: one man said that he was pouring carrot oil on carrots. And by that time I already understood that some living creature was sharpening it. True, it was not clear why this living creature descended only in my garden. She did what he recommended: as soon as the rows of carrots were identified, she poured them on kerosene:
1 Art. l on xnumx l water
Be sure to thin out the carrots, she loves luxury. Watering, and again the tops to the knees. Waiting for the harvest, and in the fall ... such a miracle! The carrots grew long, clean, like my grandmother’s. Children took pictures, but I did not write a letter that year, and this is for the better, since I learned another way to grow carrots.
Yes, I began to get good results and proudly understood that the crop is now in my hands - if I sow, it will be good. But ... My dear summer residents, I did not calm down on this! Kerosene with kerosene, but my grandmother never watered carrot beds with them, I know for sure. Kerosene was in every house, but it was expensive and was intended for kerogases and stoves, on which they prepared food.
So what did the grandmother and everyone in the village know, why carrots were never wormy, ”I did not calm down.
Leisurely fellow traveler
I listen to the advice, all in search. Then one day I was going to the country house in the middle of May, talking to a fellow traveler, and she said that she had not planted carrots yet. How?! I already sweat sweat. And the woman answers: “Well, isn't the carrot growing by October?” It will grow fine. " And she confirmed that she never plants carrots early, but collect two sacks for each bed.
I always had a different opinion, always planted carrots as early as possible, in April, because beets and carrots are not afraid of frosts, therefore, as soon as the earth thaws, I tried to plant both of these crops early. It turns out I was wrong?
Stop! And when did grandma sow carrots? Yes, yes, in the third decade of May! At the end of April we plowed a garden, planted potatoes, flax, millet, barley, and at the very end of May - corn, beans and carrots. It emerges for two weeks, and by this time the years of a malicious carrot fly are just ending.
Since then I am with carrots and I know that the harvest is in my hands. I made two conclusions.
If I sow carrots early, in April, then I water with kerosene - this is an early harvest for food.
The second time, for storage, I sow carrots at the very end of May.
It was in such a difficult way that I came to these simple conclusions. And finally, my signature recipe.
Carrot Cutlets Recipe
A whole carrot clean, wash, cook 30-40 minutes, three on a coarse grater. In the stuffing add 2 eggs, 2-3 Art. l semolina, salt and stand 1 hour for semolina swollen. Then with a spoon lay out the minced meat in the pan and fry the patties.
See also: How to grow a flat carrot - not horned and not clumsy (Bryansk region)
PROCESSING CARROTS WITH KEROSIN - VIDEO
© Author: Lyudmila Bobruisk Belarus
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I just can't make friends with carrots - it grows clumsy, seeds do not germinate well. The fact is that our soil is heavy, brought in sand and humus, I try to loosen the bed - it does not help. I read on the Internet that there are varieties of carrots that are not afraid of carrot flies and grow well on heavy soil. But they are so expensive. Does it make sense to buy them? How to prepare a carrot bed for next year?
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- Indeed, many new varieties of carrots have appeared, which are distinguished by increased immunity and a denser root crop, grow quickly and actively resist pests. But even modern varieties do not have miraculous properties. They also suffer from carrot flies if there are a lot of pests, and even these varieties will have gnarled roots if the soil is heavy.
Therefore, I recommend not to chase new products, but to ennoble the earth, make it looser and more suitable for growing carrots.
At the end of summer, plant any legume crop in the future carrot garden. When the plants reach a height of 10-15 cm, mow them and seal them into the soil with a flat cutter.
Under the autumn digging, add a bucket of humus and river sand, as well as 1 tsp. nitroammofoski per 1 sq.m.
To protect plants from carrot flies, follow the crop rotation, plant onions around the perimeter of the garden.
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Under the carrots, I took a plot on which onions grew last season. I dug up the earth and thoroughly plowed up. Seeds sown in late April. Watering the carrots when she noticed that the topsoil had dried up.
In the phase of the first real leaf, I fed it with complex mineral fertilizer according to the instructions, repeated feeding after the first thinning, then when the root crops began to pour. Harvested in mid-September. The carrots pulled out, laid out on the garden bed for 4, cut the tops so that there were stumps about 1 cm high. She laid them in wooden boxes, sprinkled them with moist sand and sent them to the cellar.