How to Increase Your Carrot Yield with Black Pepper: A Trick Many People Don't Know About

11.01.2023 18:34

Growing an excellent carrot harvest is not that difficult if you follow the basic rules for caring for the vegetable.

However, with the help of some secrets you can achieve even more impressive results.

Not all summer residents, for example, know that you can increase the carrot harvest with the help of the most common spice - black pepper.

What is the point of using the spice?

It is known that black pepper has a powerful antibacterial effect, for which it is highly valued. If you use it to treat carrots, you can protect the vegetable from diseases and pests.

It is also worth remembering that carrots need such treatment only once during the season. It will not harm the vegetable.

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How to use black pepper correctly?

Take a bucket of water and stir one large spoon of pepper into it. After that, you can start spraying the carrots. It is best to do the treatment at an early stage.

An expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", agronomist and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh believes that the best time for spraying with black pepper is the moment of thinning of seedlings.

Author: Marina Michalap Internet resource editor