Worth knowing:
Early Nantes is a fast-maturing variety that is ideally suited for early sowing. It produces approximately 16 cm long, cylindrical obtuse roots with a deep red or orange colour. It is unusually sweet and, therefore, goes well in a summer salad or along with young potatoes.
Natural Location:
The origin of the wild carrot is presumed to be the North Americas, the Near East and southern Europe.
Cultivation:
Early maturing carrots can be sowed between March and July, whereas late maturing varieties are best sowed between mid May and July. Provide the plants with well loosened soil and a compost-enriched seedbed right from the beginning. Place the seeds about 3 cm deep into furrows and leave a space of at least 30 cm between the furrows and about 4 cm between the individual roots. The first seedlings should come up after two to four weeks.
Place:
Carrots can best be cultivated in sandy-loamy, loose and gravel-free soil. The plants also need sufficient space to grow and develop ideally. Therefore, you should take out some of the plants that have been sowed too close to each other. Carrots develop especially well in mixed cultivation with beans, peas, onions, garlic, salad, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, chard and spinach. You should wait at least 3 years before sowing carrots in the same patch again. Garden beds that were hosting potatoes the year before or a green manure provide the best conditions, as carrots grow well in places with less weed pressure. It might also be helpful to you grow onions next to your carrots, as the smell will deter the infamous carrot fly.
Care:
Ensure sufficient watering. You might want to earth up a little as soon as the carrot heads appear on the surface so they don’t get green.
During the winter:
Even the carrot is a biennial plant, it is only cultivated as perennial in the garden.
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