Grow Your Vegetables: For Your Nutritional and Financial Health by Rod Stone

Author:Rod Stone
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: IN DEVELOPMENT
ISBN: 9781482078732
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-02-02T07:00:00+00:00

Carrots will grow in almost any soil, but thrive best in a moderately rich soil. They are not thinned very much, being allowed to grow almost as thickly as planted, though the seed are sown more thinly than other seed of the same size. Seed should be sown one half inch deep.

Weeds should be carefully kept down around carrots, for carrots require all the strength of the soil, since they are grown so thick.

Carrots should be dug earlier than the more hardy root crops. They can be stored in a cave, cellar, or any cool, well-ventilated place. If they are buried in the sand in the cellar they will retain all their sweetness.

When carrots are withered at the top and the roots have spots of the appearance of iron mould, the chances are that the carrot fly has been at them. Wood ashes will be very effective in getting rid of this pest and should be well worked into the surface soil. A quart of paraffin mixed with a half bushel of wood ashes and applied as a surface dressing has been known to give excellent results. This makes the surface of the soil hard and the flies cannot penetrate it to lay eggs.

CATNIP

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.