Sowing seeds and storing carrots

Sowing seeds and storing carrots

The most optimal time for sowing carrot seeds is the end of April. Before sowing seeds, it is necessary to process them, this will accelerate the process of their growth and further ripening. This procedure is started a couple of weeks before sowing. Carrot seeds are soaked in water for a couple of days.

Then the seeds are dried and soaked again with water in equal proportion to the number of seeds. In this form, we leave in the room at a maximum of twenty degrees, after about three or four hours we mix and if they begin to dry, then we sprinkle them with water.

This procedure is repeated until about five percent of the seeds begin to germinate on the fifth day. Next, we take them out into the snow or put them in the refrigerator at a temperature of zero degrees before sowing. There it will already be necessary to mix after two or three days, and before sowing, dry the seeds a little.

The best time for sowing carrots is the end of April. Before sowing, it is useful to sort the seeds (subject the seeds to a treatment that accelerates the growth and ripening process). Start 2 weeks before sowing. Soak carrot seeds for 2 days. Then dry and wet again with water equal to the weight of the seeds.

Leave in the room at 15-20 °, stir after 3-4 hours, and sprinkle with water when dry. Do this until 5% of the seeds germinate - about 4-5 days. Then take them out into the snow so that they are at 0 ° before sowing, you can also put them in the refrigerator. Stir every 2-3 days, and dry slightly before sowing.

It is better to locate carrot seeds anywhere near the onion, this will protect it from various diseases. In order for the seeds to be evenly distributed, they must be mixed with dry sand.

The seeds begin to sow in the prepared grooves, which are moistened with water, then we roll the beds with a log, so that the carrot seeds sprout together, plant the seeds about one and a half centimeters.

The main thing is not to tighten with thinning after the seeds have sprout. This procedure must be done from the first days, as soon as the shoots have appeared, leave the distance between the plants at least two centimeters.

We thin out the second time, when the carrot fruit itself grows in length up to six centimeters, in this case, up to five centimeters must be left between the plants.

Usually, carrots are watered only for the first time, then, with the growth in depth, the fruits of the carrots find themselves moisture.

In the spring, it is necessary to make compost or manure in the amount of half a bucket per square meter, while also adding a garden fertilizer mixture there. If there are no mineral fertilizers, then add ash to the soil, per one running meter, three glasses of ash. Then you need to feed two more times.

We feed for the first time as follows: into the grooves, the depth of which is four centimeters along the rows at a distance of seven centimeters from the plants themselves, on one side, we pour superphosphate granules, and into the groove on the other side, granular urea, after mixing them along with potassium chloride, it is taken at the rate of giving a gram to running meter.

After all the fertilizers have been applied, the soil is watered, and the next day it is loosened. If there are no mineral fertilizers, then they must be applied at the rate of one glass per one running meter.

We feed the second time ten days later, it will be necessary to add a mullein solution to the grooves, at the rate of one to eight, or chicken droppings at the rate of one to ten to ten liters per ten running meters.

Usually carrots are harvested at the beginning of October, and if the fruits of the carrots began to crack, then it must be pulled out and stored earlier.

The most common way to store carrots is to dry them. When the carrot is dried, the amount of moisture is much reduced, and its dry matter increases, then the carrot becomes high in calories and contains all the essential vitamins. Carrots are dried in two ways.

The first is a method of drying in a sunny place, that is, natural and the second is it is artificial drying. Natural drying is of course the simplest, in this case the carrots are cut into strips and poured in a single layer on a tray or board and taken out in the sun in a ventilated place, with the arrival of night, the chopped carrots must be brought into the room.

Artificial drying can be carried out in an oven, in an oven, or in special drying devices. The temperature for artificial drying at the beginning and at the end of the process should reach a maximum of 65 degrees, and in the middle of drying up to 80 degrees. For faster drying, carrots must be blanched or, in other words, processed for a couple in hot water or steam.

This procedure will protect the roots from darkening. Further, when the carrots are dry, then they need to be folded into a separate container, which will be closed with a lid or put in paper bags and stored separately from the rest of the vegetables.