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- To grow delicious carrots in your own garden
- Prepare the ground for carrot cultivation
- New wild forms newly bred
- Carrots for humans and animals
- Carrots for fresh consumption
- The storage for the winter
- Tips & Tricks
To grow delicious carrots in your own garden
Even for beginners in vegetable farming on their own, carrots are a grateful and productive vegetable variety in their own garden. They are sown directly in the field and grow to a harvestable size within about three months.
Prepare the ground for carrot cultivation
Soil quality plays a very important role in raising carrots in raised or vegetable beds. So fresh manures should be incorporated as fertilizer at the latest in the fall before sowing, in order to obtain a loose and humus-rich soil. Fresh dung directly before sowing damage the plants and would also favor the infestation with carrot flies. Pay attention to the carrot cultivation on:
New wild forms newly bred
In the meantime, there is also a trend among carrots to abandon cultivars in order to prioritize the strong aroma of old varieties. An example of this is the so-called Duwicker carrot, which was grown more than 200 years ago. At a length of about 5 - 9 centimeters, it is thick and tapering. Due to its high sugar content, it not only tastes very sweet, but unlike other varieties it can also partially overwinter in the soil under straw.
Carrots for humans and animals
As root vegetables carrots are a very low-calorie vegetable with many vitamins and carotene. The consumption of raw and cooked carrots is not only very healthy for people, you can also safely feed carrots to your dog. Often such an unhealthy dog snack can be replaced with a tasty treat from the own vegetable patch.
Carrots for fresh consumption
Carrot tastes really delicious and crisp when they have just been harvested directly from the ground. In particular, varieties such as the small and spherical carrots Parisian market are less suitable for storage and should be consumed equally raw or cooked. If the carrots have grown too dense in your vegetable patch, you can also pull out a few young carrots so that there is an optimal distance of at least five centimeters between the carrots.
The storage for the winter
Mainly carrot varieties with very long main roots such as the Nantaise variety are suitable for storage in the cellar. They must be dug out before the first frost and stored in a dry sandpit in the cool cellar. For your pets with teeth, you can also slice carrots and then leave them to air dry.
Tips & Tricks
If you plan on sowing carrots in your garden, you can consistently pick fresh carrots directly from the bed around May to November. Seed each row from March at a distance of four weeks.
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