Carrots from their seeds - picking and sowing
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GROWING CARROTS FROM YOUR SEEDS TO LOSE UNEVEN AND HORNED ...
There are several ways to plant carrots. Are you sure you are using the most effective one? Let's read this letter and analyze it carefully.
Four years ago I had the same problem that I wrote about and attached a photo. I looked at the photographs and laughed: the carrots reminded me of boiled crayfish with claws.
After all, the next year I sowed carrots again with seeds from the same bag. She blamed herself for the failure - she was crooked. I made a bed in a new good place, but the same thing was born, only of huge sizes. It turns out that the matter is not in my "curvature", but in the seeds. It is not without reason that it is said what seed is such a tribe.
PLANTING CARROTS IN KISEL
And for seven years now, I have not dealt with purchased seeds. Usually in the spring I buy three to five carrots with the rudiments of green makhrushki and plant them in a circle. If they survived in this form until spring, then they are good. I put a stake in the middle of the circle to tie the testes to it. I collect seeds from the central, largest umbrella, the rest can be removed earlier. The seeds are large, with small spines and fragrant.
But recently, something has gone wrong: the carrot will release a makhrushka up to 10-15 cm and begin to disappear, the entire root crop rotts. Apparently, carrots are sold overfed with fertilizers - I see no other reason.
I have tried all seeding methods. When we went on raids to the dacha, and the weather was hot and dry, the carrots did not sprout. One old woman in the market advised to sow it in jelly, pouring it out of the spout of the teapot. I boiled kissel of medium density, closer to liquid - it turned out well: the seeds in a liquid medium do not dry out immediately. On top, I always cover the bed with a layer of grass so that the soil dries up gradually. In general, I finally succeeded.
Then I began to sow parsley in jelly - I liked it. True, she sowed in the shade. When fairly strong carrot shoots appeared, I carefully removed the grass from the garden. By the way, I still use the grass for any sowing method: the sun is hot, you won't run around the garden all day with a watering can!
Another method of sowing is to bury carrot seeds in the ground with a half-bayonet of a shovel (you can use a bayonet) in a cotton bag and in polyethylene, but so that they can breathe. At home, you need to rinse the seeds - fill it with hot water 3-4 times (40-50 °). At the same time, all oils are washed out, the water becomes almost transparent. We put the seeds in a cotton bundle, then in polyethylene and put them in the refrigerator on a shelf - this gives hope not to forget about the seeds, because you constantly climb into the refrigerator for something. And it happens, you put it somewhere, and then you wake up: oh, but where are my seeds? ..
The most important thing is not to miss the deadline, not to let the seeds germinate and get tangled in the roots. If they are swollen and white rudiments have appeared here and there, then they are ready for planting. We take them out and dry them slightly so that they are free-flowing. The main thing: do not overdry!
I have a glass horseradish jar with a metal lid. The husband pierced the lid with a carnation from the inside so that the seeds could easily slip through the holes.
I sow carrot seeds into the finished spilled bed (this has already been written a lot), shaking it slightly with a jar. The seeds lay down so evenly that you don't even need to thin out! Just before sowing in this way, practice with the jar on the table, and it will go.
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SEEDING CARROTS - DRAGES AND "SWEETS"
I never glued seeds to paste, but I bought ready-made tapes. She tore them up into segments of half a meter, otherwise they were blown away by the wind, and covered them with earth.
Dragee sowed too. It is very convenient - the pills are large, bright, but, alas, the germination rate was not good. Maybe the shell hasn't dissolved, maybe the seeds are old. And with the combined method (paste and dragee), carrots sprout rare, but even and large.
Well, the last way is balls ("candy"). I cut the cheapest toilet paper into 4 × 4 cm pieces and arrange the seeds in 4-7 pieces. The work is progressing quickly. It is also easy to lay out on the finished spilled bed - everything is visible. Cover it with earth, slap it with your palm, water it again (very carefully!), And mulch it with grass. Further watering as needed. Seedlings appear in different ways: their seeds germinate on the 5th-7th day, store seeds can lie in the ground longer. It is not necessary to pull, as one or two seeds emerge from the ball.
Last year, everything worked out great for me. A bed of two rows 10 m long: one row - Vitamin, the second - Shantane. At the end of July, 40 carrots were happily waving their tails on it!
A LITTLE ABOUT PETRUSHKA
I have my own seeds, I collect a lot for the second year, of good quality. I always wonder: where do the sellers get the small seeds and put them in bags according to the count? I cook seeds for planting in the refrigerator, like carrot seeds. If they even outgrow a little, I don't worry. I spread it in a row in a row in bunches every 10 cm. In each bunch, normal, non-overgrown seeds remain - they germinate.
Now winters with little snow, parsley can freeze out, and then the seeds for the next year can no longer be collected. Therefore, in the fall, it is necessary to cover it with leaves, or tops, or agril.
I do not give recommendations, I just state facts from my practice. Everyone has a different climate, different land, different desires, abilities and opportunities. For me personally, the best way to plant carrots is with my own seeds from a jar with a lid. Only your own! If you have the opportunity and desire to get them, go for it. Good luck!
See also: Sowing carrots from A to Z - the best advice and feedback gardeners and gardeners
ANOTHER WAY OF SEEDING CARROTS ON VIDEO
© Author: Taisa Georgievna STUPNIKOVA. Engels, Saratov region
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Tell me how to grow carrot seeds and get your own seeds?
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You need to start preparing for this in the fall, choosing and setting aside large, even, undamaged root crops. Store them in the cellar, wrapped in paper. In the spring, as soon as the opportunity arises, you need to dig up the soil, make a narrow trench, lay the carrot seeds obliquely in it and cover it with soil.
Root crops grow tall branching bushes. Near each of them, be sure to stick a stick 1 m high and tie it up. Inflorescences-umbrellas are formed on the lateral shoots, on which the seeds will later ripen. There can be a lot of shoots and umbrellas, and the umbrellas will be small. To prevent this from happening, it is necessary to pinch and remove excess shoots, leaving about a dozen of the strongest with large umbrellas.
Large seeds will also be tied on them. When the umbrellas are bent inward and dry, they need to be collected and dried in the shade; then rub between the palms and winnow the seeds.
Carrots are a cross-pollinated crop, so seedlings of different varieties cannot be used.
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I bought a large bag of Shantane at the market, sowed, as always, two rows of onions, two carrots. The onion is like soldiers in the ranks, but the carrot shoots did not wait, although the expiration date was on the package: 2023.