Gardeners try not only to sow carrots and harvest at least some kind of crop, but dream of growing smooth, juicy and large root crops.
Striving for a goal, summer residents sometimes make mistakes, because of which a good harvest remains only a dream.
Harmful fertilizer
Carrots love loose soil. But the root crop cannot stand soil that has recently been fertilized. Summer residents add compost and additional fertilizers before sowing, and then rejoice that the "soil is fat."
But this is a waste of time, effort and fertilizer. Carrots do not need freshly fertilized soil.
Therefore, when preparing a garden bed, do not add compost or manure - neither rotted nor, especially, fresh.
Ash is also not recommended for use at the start. Experienced gardeners say that it is because of it that carrots grow branchy and gnarled.
When to apply fertilizer
Potassium fertilizer is applied no earlier than when carrots have grown 5 true leaves. Only after that is potassium monophosphate added.
Before sowing, superphosphate can be added under digging - 1 tablespoon per 1 square meter. But the bed is dug deeply, because carrots like loose soil not only on the surface.
