Carrot is an herb of the umbelliferae family, genus Carrot. Alias carrot, clove radish, tomato radish, golden shoots. Carrot is highly adaptable, has few pests and diseases, is easy to cultivate, has a high yield, is resistant to storage and transportation, and is one of the main vegetables in winter.
Carrot is a semi-hardy vegetable with a certain degree of cold tolerance. It has a developed root system with a deep distribution, and the requirement for soil moisture content is 60-70%. Planting carrots to loose aerated loam or sandy loam is good, choose the deep soil, good drainage of fertile soil is appropriate.
Carrot planting time
Carrots are suitable for sowing in the spring, specifically in mid-March to the end of April, but also in summer and fall in July-August. The southern region is usually sown in early July to late August and harvested in late December, while the northern region is to take the spring sowing.
Carrot planting method
1, seed treatment
Carrots should be germinated before sowing. The method of germination is to rub the prickly hair of the seeds soaked in 40 degrees of warm water for 2 hours, and then fished out and placed in 20-25 ℃ indoor germination, maintain the appropriate humidity, regular turning so that the temperature, humidity uniformity, when most of the seeds of the embryonic roots revealed can be sown.
2, sowing method
Carrots can be sown or strip sown at 15-20 cm spacing, covered with 1.5-2 cm of fine soil after sowing, and then covered with straw, cooling and moisturizing. Sowing 1-1.5 kilograms of seed per mu, strip sowing mu seed amount of about 0.7 kilograms.
Carrot planting maintenance
1, between seedlings
About 10 days later, the growth of seedlings, in the seedlings grow two true leaves when the first between seedlings , seedling spacing is maintained at about 4 cm. When four true leaves emerge, the second inter-seeding will be carried out, and the seedlings will be spaced about 6 centimeters apart. When 7 true leaves are grown, the last inter-seeding is done, and the seedlings are spaced 15 centimeters apart.
2, water and fertilizer
In the seedling period watering should not be too much, too much water is not conducive to the fleshy root expansion growth. To the late water to ensure sufficient, so that the fleshy roots fully expanded. In the growing period it is best to apply a rotted organic fertilizer solution, the growing period of carrots is about 90 days, when the leaves become yellow, you can pick.