Carrots are an unpretentious vegetable that can survive under any circumstances.
Gardeners have to deal with the fact that carrots do not grow perfectly, are not sweet or juicy, and are small.
Some secrets will help you grow an excellent vegetable.
How to Prepare a Bed for Planting Carrots
We prepare a furrow using a hoe, mix carrots with sand 50 to 50, moisten the furrows, sprinkle seeds with sand on it and sprinkle with earth.
The seeds do not need to be planted too deeply, otherwise they may not germinate. Carrot varieties are selected based on the climate.
Fertilizer
Carrots are fertilized with the first shoots, you can add 1 tablespoon of superphosphate, potassium magnesium sulfate and urea per 30 liters of water. Water at the rate of: a bucket of solution per 1 m².
Three weeks after germination, potassium fertilizer will be needed. Use nitrophoska: three tablespoons per bucket of water and apply a bucket per 1 m². Water under the root so that it does not fall on the leaves.
As root crops grow, wood ash is sprinkled between the rows at the rate of 1 glass per 1 m².
Carrots need boron to be sweet. Feed the plants at the rate of 15 g of boron per 10 l of water.
