How to sow carrots without thinning?
Carrots give our body a huge storehouse of vitamins and minerals, support vision, normalize metabolic processes, and improve blood circulation. Every gardener dreams of collecting a good harvest of carrots in order to use them all year round. How to make high-quality stocks, get a large and juicy product, how to plant carrots correctly in order to get a decent yield from vegetable seeds?
Preparing the soil for sowing
- loosening of the soil;
- fertilization of the sowing site;
- stacking carrot seeds;
- timely watering;
- elimination of pests;
- weeding of row spacings;
- harvesting.
First of all, you need to choose a site in the garden where weeds appear the least. At the beginning of April, you can start sowing early maturing varieties.
It is important to loosen the soil, add a little sand, mix it with mineral fertilizers several weeks before sowing seeds.
Common methods of sowing root crops
The usual method is sowing dry carrot seeds. But the point is that it is difficult to control the amount of seeds that fall into the furrow by hand. And then you will need to either thin out the vegetable, or the seedlings will be small and uneven. This is why it is important to properly prepare carrot seeds before planting. And for this there are many folk methods.
Sowing with wet and germinated seeds
They are soaked for 2 hours in room water, then laid out on a damp cloth and covered with wet paper on top. When dry, the surface must be timely moistened. When the seeds begin to hatch, they need to be stored in the refrigerator for 10 days for hardening and then sown in open ground.
With this method, the soil should be kept moist so that the seeds do not die. In this way the carrots will sprout very quickly and will give good results.
Sowing carrots in a bag
As soon as the snow begins to melt, you need to prepare a place on the site and put a linen bag with carrot seeds in a shallow hole. In order not to lose this place, you should put some kind of identification mark. After two weeks, the seeds will begin to hatch, they are taken out, mixed with river sand and scattered around the garden. Cover with foil. After 6 days, there will already be the first shoots, which can be planted in the right amount in the open field. Such carrots are very juicy and large, ripen very early, preserve a huge amount of vitamins and minerals, do not burn out in the sun.
Sowing carrots with sand
Here's how to sow carrots so as not to thin out: take two tablespoons of seeds and mix with a bucket of sand. We moisten this mixture and spread it into large furrows. The sowing site is covered with a small layer of soil and is well watered. Until autumn, you can not approach the beds, and after the gardener, a wonderful harvest awaits - large and even carrots.
Grandma's way of planting a vegetable
You need to pour a jar of water and add seeds there, and then collect the resulting liquid into the genus and sprinkle it on the garden bed, as when ironing. This may not be an ideal method for planting carrots, but the seedlings are more uniform than dry planting.
Planting seeds with paste
This method will help to avoid the subsequent thinning of carrots and protect the plant from fungal diseases. To prepare the paste, you need to take a spoonful of flour and a liter of cold water.Boil the composition over low heat, cool to 35 degrees and pour the prepared seeds. Mix the mixture and pour it into the prepared grooves in a thin stream. The vegetables will be juicy and ripe.
Sticking seeds to toilet paper
What needs to be done, to implement this technology:
- cut toilet paper into a strip along the length of the bed;
- make a paste of starch and water, and also add a little boric acid to the composition (to protect the plant from diseases);
- put seeds on the strips with a toothpick, 2 pieces at a distance of 4 cm;
- dry the material;
- roll up and save the product until the spring landing in the ground.
Sowing carrots using improvised means
Many gardeners use special strainers or salt shakers to help sow carrot seeds without having to thin out. A do-it-yourself carrot seeder is made from a simple plastic bottle, in which a hole is cut in the size of the seed, and thus the carrots are sown. But if the seedlings still turned out to be thick, then they need to be broken through during the first week, so that the rest of the root crops receive more moisture and nutrients, grow juicy and large.
Method for pelleting seeds
The method increases the size of the carrot seed and makes sowing easier. First you need to soak the seeds with water and select all defective, dry and too small ones. Then add to the composition of potassium permanganate and leave overnight. This will remove the essential oils in the shell that slow down seed growth.
After that, cover the furrows with a thin layer of flour and lay out the seeds individually. Seedlings will turn out to be uniform, the root crop will turn out to be juicy and large.
Cucumbers, onions, garlic, peas, tomatoes are considered excellent neighbors for carrots. You cannot plant a plant twice in a row in one place. Fertilizers must be used potassium and phosphorus, but not in any case liquid manure or bird droppings, so that the roots do not wither and rot.
The main nuances when growing carrots
- It is important to loosen the earth all the time and add root crops.
- Water the plant two to three times a week, as the soil is moistened.
- Perform timely weeding.
- Remove insect pests from carrots.
This is how experienced gardeners grow root crops. And how to plant a carrot so as not to thin out - watch videos from professionals.