Carrots are difficult to grow - the number of sprouts is much less embedded in the ground. Year after year, many summer residents try to plant carrots in different ways so that they sprout faster. But efforts aimed at accelerating seed germination are not always justified and the result is often disappointing. Common troubles - prolonged germination, ugliness and bad taste of carrots - are usually attributed to poor-quality planting material. But that's not really the problem. The cultivation technology has certain subtleties, the observance of which guarantees an excellent harvest.

Seedling timing

Under favorable conditions, sprouts may appear on the soil surface 14 days after the carrot seeds have been planted. In cold weather, root crops sprout after 3-4 weeks. During this time, the bed is overgrown with weeds, which directly affects germination.

The long period of germination is explained by the fact that the root stem grows first, and only then the shoot begins to break through to the surface. Because of this feature, carrots are recommended to be watered a week after germination, so that the roots go deeper into the soil in search of moisture.

What affects seed germination

When stored in a cool, dry place, planting material retains the ability to germinate for 2-3 years. But in any case, only 45-70 percent of the seeds are fertile. You can achieve rapid cultivation of carrot seedlings by observing the following recommendations:

1. Seed preparation. Planting material should be purchased from trusted suppliers so as not to encounter poor quality products.
2. Boarding times. Some gardeners sow carrots in late autumn, in which case the crop is ready for harvest two weeks earlier. But if the winter is severe enough, there is a risk of seeds freezing. When planting in spring, it is necessary to take into account the characteristics of the type of root crop: it can be early, mid-ripening and late. Early varieties can be planted in beds at a steady temperature of +5°C. As a rule, this is the second half of April. May is suitable for planting the remaining varieties, in extreme cases - the beginning of June.
3. Processing of planting material. To protect the seeds from pests, they must be soaked in a weak solution of manganese.
4. Priming. The soil must be fertile, able to provide the plants with the necessary nutrients. Ashes and compost are suitable as fertilizers. When using chemicals, it is important not to exceed the dosage, otherwise the toxic substances will kill the sprouts.

To make it easier for the shoots to break through to the surface, and the roots to have a beautiful shape, you need a light, loose earth. If the site has heavy clay soil, it should be dug up by adding rotted sawdust or sand.

The root crop does not like an acidic environment, a substrate with a neutral reaction is preferable.

Ways to accelerate seed germination

In order for the harvest of root crops not to take long to wait, you can use proven methods:

1. The bed must be prepared in the fall. The soil is cleared of roots, stones and chips. If the root crop encounters an obstacle during the growth process, it will bend. Carrots do not like lime and manure, so it is better to start adding organic matter in the fall, and in the spring add a mineral supplement containing phosphorus and potassium. It is necessary to monitor the nitrogen content, because with its excess, the plant spends the main forces on growing tops. There is no need to fertilize during the summer.
2. Seeds are sown in grooves, the distance between them is 5-7 centimeters. Depth on clay soils is about 1.5 cm, on loose, sandy soils - 2.5-3 cm. The surface of the recesses should be slightly compacted and moistened with warm water. To scare away pests, the grooves are watered with an ordinary solution of potassium permanganate.
3. The appearance of sprouts can be accelerated by the proximity to parsley, calendula, marigolds. Other root crops should not be placed next to carrots.
4. Planting material should not be sown too thickly so as not to damage the roots during thinning. Excess seedlings are removed within the first week after the emergence of sprouts. This will make it easier for the plants to recover.
5. To speed up the germination of carrot seeds, the bed can be covered with agrofiber. It is better to water from a watering can with a strainer so that a strong jet does not drive the seeds deep into the ground.

Pre-sowing treatment

Carrot seeds contain a high concentration of essential oils. They create a protective shell that prevents the penetration of moisture inside. If dry seeds are sown, this process can take 20 or more days, and daily watering is required.

To make the carrots rise faster, you can soak the seed a few days before planting. To remove the oil film, the seeds are washed in warm water, poured into a cotton bag and soaked for 2-3 days. Water is replaced with fresh water every 3-4 hours. Seeds after spring soaking are dried on paper.

If you often have to deal with pests and diseases on the site, you can harden the planting material in the refrigerator. To do this, the bag is washed in running water, squeezed and put in the refrigerator for 5 days. You need to make sure that the fabric stays damp. After that, the seeds are dried so that they do not stick together.

bubbling

One of the most effective ways to get a crop a week earlier is soaking with simultaneous air supply. If the carrots should rise faster, you need to carry out the procedure yourself, using a car pump or an aquarium compressor:

• the container is filled with water at room temperature, the device is installed so that the air passes to the very bottom;
• add liquid fertilizer;
• the duration of bubbling is 18-24 hours, but if the shell begins to burst, the seeds must be removed immediately;
• planting material is dried and sown in moderately moist soil.

Germination in a humid environment

To avoid disappointment, it is necessary to make sure that the seeds germinate 1-2 months before planting. To do this, they are soaked for 2-3 days in warm water and sown in a small container with soil. A good indicator is about 80% of seedlings. When culling more than 50%, it is better to replace the seeds or take more planting material than usual, and then thin out if necessary.

To be sure of a good harvest, you need to know how to germinate carrots faster. After hardening, the seeds are laid out on a moistened cloth, covered with a layer of cloth on top. It is not recommended to use gauze, the sprouts can get tangled in it. To prevent the liquid from completely evaporating, it is necessary to spray the bundle from the spray bottle. You can cover the fabric with ordinary polyethylene and periodically ventilate.

At a temperature of about 20 degrees, after a few days the seeds will swell, and sprouts will appear a little later. Before planting, all germinated seeds germinate already for 5-7 days.

Agrotechnical practices to accelerate the emergence of seedlings

In order for the plants not to suffer from diseases and pest attacks, it is recommended to soak the seeds in a weak solution of manganese.

When it comes time to plant pre-sprouted carrot seeds, there can be problems with even distribution. In this case, some areas will have to be thinned out, while others will remain empty. To avoid this, the planting material is mixed with loose river sand, poured into the beds and covered with a layer of soil. You can also purchase paper tapes with seeds attached, or make your own using paste as a fixing agent.

For carrots to sprout quickly and 10 ways to sow

Crispy carrots!
Favorite carrot!
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Getting ready for sowing.

As you know, seeds have different properties, one of which is the speed of germination. If marigold seeds sprout already on the third day after sowing, tomatoes on the third - seventh, peppers need ten days to germinate, then carrots, which do not tolerate transplants, and therefore are sown directly on the beds, will lie in the ground for weeks, introducing the owners of the garden into an exciting expectation: “Will it rise, or will it not rise?”

Of course, there are methods of preparing seeds to speed up germination. The main and most common method is soaking the seeds in water. At the same time, the seed coat is wetted, swells, opens, and the sprout, without an obstacle in front of it, quickly breaks out.
Of course, seeds can also be sown dry. This is exactly what they do with carrot seeds, because few people imagine sowing small and wet seeds that will stick to their hands and are unlikely to fall evenly into the grooves. The heat and moisture present in the ground will still do their job, so a young sprout will appear from a dry seed. But while the carrots sprout, the bed will be covered with weeds, which will bring a lot of trouble. I hate to "hang" over the bed for hours, thinning out small seedlings and removing weeds. This business requires patience, which, however, my wife has enough. Apparently, therefore, despite emancipation, there is still a division of labor between us, in which a garden bed with carrots does not concern me. And yet, everyone who grows carrots wants to make this routine work of weeding easier and, as it turns out, it's easy to do.
Quite by accident I came across a film posted on You Tube, where Olga Voronova, a landscape designer and author of books on gardening, tells in detail how she grows carrots. The most interesting point in the story lies in the preparation of seeds, which contributes to rapid germination, as well as in the method of sowing. So, in order:
1. Put the seeds in a rag. Gently roll the rag, pull it off with elastic bands, or tie it with threads so that it does not unfold, and keep this rag under hot water for a minute. The temperature should be around 50 degrees. That is, the water should be hot, but not to such an extent that the seeds are cooked. The human hand tolerates the temperature of such water. Easier for those who have a thermometer.
Such minute procedures should be repeated three times a day for two days. That is, only six times. After each hot treatment, the seeds are placed in a saucer of water at room temperature. Water is required, since the seeds should not dry out during this period.
After the last, sixth, hot treatment, the seeds are dried by placing them on paper, and the paper on a hot battery.
So, the seeds are dried and now we can sow them. But don't rush. If your seeds sprout earlier than usual, then thinning is still indispensable. And to avoid this procedure, there is a sowing method described by Olga Voronova.
2. Boil jelly (liquid paste), pour seeds into it, stir, pour into a small teapot, or a watering can. In the jelly, the seeds are distributed evenly. And therefore, in the grooves watered with such jelly, the seeds will be distributed in the same way, evenly. After the carrots sprout, the crops do not need to be thinned out, and the weeds do not have time to gain strength (or maybe even sprout).
Here's a trick! We will try! There is still time to prepare the seeds, but May is just around the corner! Hurry up if anyone is interested. Good luck!

10 Ways to Sow Carrot Seeds

How to plant carrots? What's the problem, you say, would be the seeds. You, as always, were right. :) The main thing is that sowing carrots does not turn into a tedious and time-consuming process. There are many ways to avoid this, and I want to tell you about them.

1. The most common way that many people use is sowing dry carrot seeds. Just use your hand to sprinkle carrot seeds into the grooves little by little. One problem: the seeds of carrots are small, and if you pour a lot of seeds into the groove, they will sprout thickly, and then you have to sit in the garden for a long time, thinning out the seedlings. If you pour a little carrot seeds, then they may not sprout.

When sowing carrots with dry seeds, you have to wait a long time for germination. Because the seeds still need to swell. Of course, there is always at least a little moisture in the soil, but most often carrots sprout after the first rain, and only then its growth begins.

2. Sowing carrots with soaked and germinated seeds immediately require watering both during planting and in the following days. With this method of sowing carrot seeds, it is necessary to keep the soil moist, otherwise the germinated seeds will die. Naturally, with this method, the seeds germinate faster.

3. There is a way to sow carrot seeds, in which friendly shoots appear quickly. It is called "carrots in a bag". As soon as the first thawed patches begin to appear, you need to dig a hole in the area for the shovel bayonet. Moisten carrot seeds in a linen bag with water, put in this hole, cover with earth, and cover with snow. In order not to lose the place where the carrot seeds are buried, you need to put any identification mark, for example, a stick. After 10 - 12 days, carrot seeds peck. Then they are taken out, mixed with dry river sand and scattered over the garden. The soil is slightly harrowed, covered with a film. Friendly shoots appear already on the 5th - 6th day.

4. The next way to sow carrot seeds is convenient and economical. Need to mix one to two tablespoons of carrot seeds with a bucket of sand and scatter this mixture into the furrows. It is important that the sand is dry, otherwise the seeds will not mix well with the sand and the crops will be uneven. Then well spill the beds with carrots with water, cover with a small layer of soil on top and you can not approach the carrots until autumn. There is no need to thin out the beds with carrots. In the fall, you should have large and even carrots.

5. Grandma's way of sowing carrots: pour water into a glass (half-liter jar), pour carrot seeds into it. Then, after stirring this mixture well, take water in your mouth along with carrot seeds and sprinkle it on the garden bed. So before, when ironing, overdried linen was sprayed. Carrot crops are also more or less uniform.

6. Mixed landing method: for example, you can mix the seeds of carrots and radishes in one cup, add a little river sand there for even sowing and sow in the furrows.

Radishes quickly rise, are gradually eaten, and all the free space in the row remains for carrots. In the future, you will not have to thin out such a bed.

The radish can be replaced with any other fast growing and maturing plant. Spinach or lettuce are good for this purpose. The idea of ​​mixed beds is very good, it gives good results.

On the same bed, you can get several crops, if you correctly draw up a plan for planting vegetable crops according to the ripening period. However, in order for the harvest of all crops, both early and late, to be high, it will be necessary to apply an increased agrotechnical background: watering, timely loosening of the soil and removal of weeds, fertilizing with both organic and mineral fertilizers.

7. Crops of carrot seeds can be combined with onion crops. Onions can be alternated in rows, or you can sow "beacon" onions. At "beacon" method carrot seeds are preferably sown in rows, and ordinary onion sets are planted in the same rows. As soon as the shoots of onions and carrots germinate, the onion will mark the carrot shoots as a dotted line. This method of planting allows you to reduce the complexity of weeding at times. This method is convenient because joint plantings of carrots and onions protect each other from pests: from carrot and onion flies.

8.Sowing carrots with seeds on a tape. There are seeds on the tape for sale, but you can also make such a tape yourself by gluing carrot seeds onto a paper strip of paper using a paste. This technology for planting carrots is very convenient: you just need to pull the purchased or prepared tape along the furrow onto the beds and sprinkle it with earth. One but! It’s good if you got exactly the kind of carrot on the tape that you wanted to buy. But sitting and sticking carrot seeds is something else!

9. A great way is to buy pelleted seeds. Each carrot seed is in a solid pellet of dry hydrogel and fertilizers with trace elements. The size of the dragee is also optimal - a little more than a pepper grain, even if the dragee falls out of your hands in the wrong place, you can easily find it and pick it up. The dragee is bright in color and so easy to see on the black ground. The coated carrot seed is provided for the first time with all the necessary nutrients.

Recently, I have been using coated seeds. On a bed intended for crops of carrots, I make holes at a distance of 10x10 cm, a depth of 2 cm, a diameter of 1.5-2 cm with a pointed stick (I even bend over “in scrap”) :). From the stick, even dimples are obtained, into which I then put 2-3 dragees. After the seeds are laid out, I simply level the bed with the back of the rake from above. You don't have to cut carrots. Just at the end of June, in July, I pull out extra carrots into soup.

Experienced gardeners advise at home to replace seed coating with mixing ordinary moistened carrot seeds with dried, well-ground (ground) mullein (4 parts of mullein per 1 part of seeds). (For an amateur!)

10. And this method of sowing carrot seeds is for those who like to experiment. Take water and dissolve some fertilizers in it, preferably complex, with trace elements. Then cook a paste on this water from flour or starch. Let this custard cool completely. Feel free to pour the cooked carrot seeds there and mix well.

Then, in any of the available means: an empty plastic bottle (you have to make a hole in the lid), a confectionery syringe with a large nozzle, an empty ketchup bottle - put it on or pour it (depending on what consistency you got) there paste with carrot seeds. In accordance with the laws of physics, seeds mixed in a paste do not stick together, but keep a distance from each other.

Then go boldly to the garden, make grooves and squeeze this paste into them. Seed paste lays down easily and evenly, carrot seeds are moistened and fertilized. Seeds are economically spent, and there is no extra work on thinning carrots. And you can choose any kind of carrot you like, the seeds of which are not coated.

What other methods of sowing carrot seeds do you know?

INTERESTING EXPERIENCE :

• Use the method of experienced and resourceful gardeners.

After planting carrots, cover the bed with wet old newspapers in 8-10 layers, on top of which put a film. An excellent effect is achieved: moisture is retained in the soil, the temperature rises in the germination zone, weeds in the dark under the newspapers are in no hurry to sprout.
After 2 weeks, the newspapers can be removed and wait for carrot shoots. After ten days, it is easy to thin out the strengthened carrots, and weed out the weeds.

• but I sit differently. I take a little kerosene, moisten dry seeds with it and immediately sow it in the garden, evenly distributing it in the line. I don't cover. They come up in a week. Sora is small. If the weather is dry and hot, they sprout in ten days. But I try to sow earlier, while there is moisture from the snow in the ground

From a scientific point of view, I do not know why kerosene. I read this method somewhere and began to apply it. But even at school, we watered a bed of carrots with kerosene and the weed died, but the carrots remained. In the garden, I make lines with a recess, spill them with water, scatter wet seeds (I got used to it more evenly and less often, if I get several seeds together, then I separate it. (Painstakingly, but it’s worth doing this). I sprinkle it with dry earth and tamp a little. (The hollow remains about 2 cm depth, then, when it grows up, I gradually spud) I start watering when it sprouts. Try a little, you will like it.

We also pour kerosene over the weed, and now I’ll try to plant it like this. I wonder if kerosene does not affect the taste? We then water on top, but here inside?

The taste does not change, because only the surface of the seed is processed. And in what proportion do you water or pure kerosene?

Pure. I pour it into a spray bottle and go to fight weeds!

I also process parsley this way. I take a little kerosene, just to moisten it. I drain the excess into the groove.

And I have a water seeder! Here is such a simple cap for a milk bottle (or a bottle of Biola juice). Water is poured, seeds are poured according to the instructions (any, from small to large) and forward with songs!

Last year I adapted a tip from something medical, it seems, from a syringe. I just glued it to the lid, and made a hole in the lid with a hot nail.

BUT!!! This year I will not use jelly, but hydrogel. The seeds in it are also in suspension, and, according to the instructions, the hydrogel provides earlier germination - this still needs to be checked by deed - and also retains moisture longer - this has already been tested. So, friends, learn new tips!

There is another good way, any seeds that are hard to germinate, soak for two hours (a tablespoon of warm water and soda on the tip of a knife). Soda softens the shell from here and fast germination.

And for the quick germination of seeds, I use a "bath" (the employees of the Research Institute of the South-East taught long ago "). Pour boiling water into a thermos and close it for warming up for a few minutes. Seeds, pre-soaked or pickled, are placed in a damp cloth bag or cloth, then drained water from a thermos, put the seeds in. Close the thermos and leave it for a few hours (2-3). Then we take it out, ventilate and sow.

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At first glance, it seems that sowing carrots is easy enough. But in fact, this is not easy, it requires skill and possession of certain sowing rules. Let's figure out together how to sow carrots so that they quickly sprout.

Rules for planting carrots

For the convenience of sowing, it is recommended to mix carrot seeds with dry sand and sow the resulting mixture on a prepared bed. The liquid method has proven itself well - starch paste is prepared, cooled. Carrot seeds are poured into it and everything is thoroughly mixed. Sowing can be done through a kettle or a bag with a hole.

Several ways to sow carrots:

There are quite a few of them, let's consider the most used ones.

• Dry sowing is considered the simplest - scattering seeds into furrows. But at the same time it is quite difficult to maintain the uniformity of their disembarkation. With this method, seedlings appear for a long time, because the seeds were not subjected to preliminary swelling. This usually happens after the first rain.
• The next method - the seeds are soaked and germinated. This method needs watering on the day of planting and thereafter. It is important here that the required percentage of moisture is always maintained in the seeds, otherwise they may die. This method gives fast germination results.
• Carrots "in the bag" gives quick shoots. During the period of the first thawed patches, a small hole is dug in the area. Carrot seeds are placed in a bag, moistened with water, placed in a hole, covered with earth and covered with snow. In ten days, the seeds will hatch. They can be obtained, mixed with sand and simply scattered on the garden. The soil is then harrowed and covered with polyethylene. Shoots appear on the fifth day.
• Another way is quite economical.
  A couple of tablespoons of seeds are mixed with a bucket of sand and the resulting mixture is injected into the prepared furrows. It is very important that the sand is dry. Otherwise, the mixing will be uneven, which will affect the germination in the future. After that, it is necessary to shed the beds with plenty of water, sprinkle with a small layer of earth, and you can ignore the carrots until autumn. In this way, thinning can be omitted.

A number of methods available to everyone

We will consider them without details, with a simple enumeration:

Seeds are placed in water and sowing is done by spraying with the mouth,

mixed method - carrot seeds are mixed with radishes, sand is added and sown evenly,

combination of sowing carrots with onions,

Many people understand that gardening is a very difficult task, and not everyone is suitable for this kind of activity. It is important here not only to know how to sow, because there are often cases when diligence, endurance and patience are required from the gardener. This is especially true for the latter. And this is twice true when you plant such a plant familiar to modern man as carrots. If the seeds of many other cultivated vegetables, for example, or peppers, germinate rather quickly (for this they need about a week), then carrots can “sleep” for a long time, forcing their owner to languish in anticipation for weeks.

However, there are several different ways to avoid this. The first, and easiest, is to soak the seeds in water. This is a very simple and very common method. They become swollen, then they open up and a sprout appears. But in this case there is one significant drawback. Wet and sticky seeds are not very convenient to sow. In addition, the chance that they will evenly fall into the garden is critically small. Moreover, this technique requires immediate, since the soil must always remain moist. Otherwise, carrot seeds will die.

There are also people who do nothing at all and just sow dry seeds. However, then you will have to face the problem of weeds, which will certainly appear by the time the sprout appears. You will have to thin out the seedlings, which requires a lot of time and especially patience, which not everyone has.

The next method is slightly similar to the first. Carrot seeds should be put in a small rag, then folded and tied with string or thread (rubber bands work too). After that, you should hold it under hot water. The temperature should not exceed 45-50 degrees. This can avoid both burn and damage to the seeds themselves. Perform this operation three times a day for 2 days. Total: 6 times. But that's not all. Remember! They should not become dry in the pauses between rinsing. It is recommended at that time to put them on a saucer with water at room temperature. After the sixth time, it is necessary to spread the seeds on paper, the paper itself must be placed on the battery.

Some gardeners say that even after completing all these simple operations, one should not rush into sowing, since thinning cannot be avoided in the case of early shoots.

This method is quite unusual and is relatively rare, because here. Pour seeds into it, mix and pour into a teapot. Since the seeds will be distributed evenly during mixing, the distribution of seeds in the furrows will also be uniform.
What follows is a very convenient technique that many recommend. Seeds must be mixed with sand (necessarily dry!), Then mix. The resulting mixture is distributed over the furrows. After that, it is necessary to pour the seeds abundantly with water and cover with a layer of soil. If everything is done correctly, then the sowing will be uniform, and in the fall there will be a good harvest of carrots.

There is also an old method, which, however, some consider ineffective. The instruction is quite simple: pour water into a half-liter jar, cover with seeds. After that, you should take the mixture into your mouth, after stirring it, and spray the beds. It is believed that the seeds will be distributed evenly.
A very useful method is the mixed planting method, which allows you to shoot several crops of early and late crops. To do this, mix carrot seeds in a cup with seeds from another early crop, for example. After that, add a little dry sand so that the sowing is even. Then comes the sowing. Radishes (or any other early crop) are ripened and then harvested. However, this technique also has disadvantages. Since for a good harvest you need not only good soil, but also a combination of top dressing with fertilizers, timely watering and loosening the soil.

Carrots are a very necessary vegetable in the kitchen! All year round we add it to hot dishes, eat it fresh and mix salads. The cost of carrots in the store is low, so maybe it would be more convenient to just buy root vegetables as needed, without spending time growing them? However, closer to spring, store-bought carrots begin to rise in price significantly, their quality deteriorates noticeably, and those who do not stock up on time have a hard time.

That is why in every garden there is a garden bed for this beloved vegetable crop, and experienced gardeners exchange experience with beginners on how to plant carrots in order to get a rich harvest of healthy root crops.

If you have not had to grow vegetables before, and you have no idea how to plant carrots, or you can’t grow normal tasty root crops, our article will definitely be useful to you. We will talk about how to plant carrots with seeds, how to care for young shoots, and how to protect the garden from.

Video about preparing carrot seeds for planting

Depending on the variety of seeds you bought, the timing of their sowing will also vary. So, in the twentieth of April, you can start sowing early-ripening varieties, from April 25 to May 5, mid-ripening varieties begin to be sown, and carrots intended for winter storage are planted on June 10-15.

Under the carrot bed, it is recommended to choose a site where there are not too many weeds, since the weeds will sprout before the carrots and prevent it from growing. The soil should be loose, preferably with sand content. In heavy soil, root crops can turn out to be curved, clumsy, small. If there is a constantly elevated level of moisture in the soil, the root crops will rot, and in dry soil the carrot will turn out to be “wooden”.

Consider also after which crops you will sow carrots. It is best to choose those areas where cucumbers, tomatoes, garlic, onions, cabbage, potatoes or greens (except lettuce) grew last year. After parsley, it is better not to plant carrots, as pests that are dangerous for carrots can remain in the soil.

In heavy soil, root crops can turn out to be curved, clumsy, small

Dig up the soil in the garden in the fall, and in the spring, walk along the ground with a flat cutter. Additionally, you should not dig up - settled earth is preferable for carrots. Most importantly, do not add fresh manure to the soil, as carrots do not tolerate its acid. The bed can be fertilized with mineral fertilizers a couple of weeks before planting carrots.

Planting carrots is done by seeds immediately in open ground. Prepare seeds in advance:

• soak for two hours in clean water at room temperature;
• scatter the seeds over a damp cloth and cover with another damp cloth on top;
• keep the seeds in the room, periodically stirring them gently;
• soak the fabric when dry;
• when the seeds are completely swollen and begin to hatch, move them to the refrigerator for 10 days for hardening.

Simple and accessible on how to properly plant carrots

It is enough to maintain a distance between the seeds of 1.5 cm

Sprinkle the bed reserved for carrots with ash, cut it through each groove up to 2.5 cm deep, leaving row spacing of 20 cm, and 12 cm along the edges of the ridge. Pour the grooves with water and sow the prepared seeds. It is enough to maintain a distance between the seeds of 1.5 cm. Level the furrows with earth. Above the bed at a height of 15 cm, it is recommended to stretch the film so that shoots appear faster, and with the advent of greenery, the film can be removed.

Experienced gardeners, in an effort to simplify the process of sowing seeds, sometimes come up with quite unusual methods how to plant carrots: someone mixes the seed with sand before sowing, while others pre-paste one seed at a time on tapes of thin paper (you can use toilet paper). A carrot seed is picked up with a toothpick, dipped in paper glue or paste and applied every 5 cm to paper. Such paper tapes are laid in the furrows and sprinkled on top of the earth.

Video about growing carrots

Plant a radish along the edges of the bed, it will sprout pretty quickly, marking the rows of carrots, and you can start loosening the row spacing early (carrots love frequent loosening). It is also very useful to plant onions on a carrot bed, as its smell drives away carrot flies, the most dangerous pest of carrots.

At first, the bed should be watered abundantly, and when the first shoots turn green, reduce watering to twice a week. Although not all of the seed material will sprout, the seedlings will still need to be thinned out after the formation of the first leaf, leaving the strongest plants.