This year I planted Chinese carrot seeds: showing what has grown
2020, of course, will be remembered by everyone who survived it for a long time. Too many things (good and bad) happened in those 366 days.
However, for me the year was not only a cloudy gray, but sometimes gave reasons for sincere surprise. I was especially pleased with the 2020 harvest at the dacha. I will gradually publish a series of articles about this, and now I will tell you about the carrots we have grown this year.
At the beginning of the season, we conducted an experiment - we went to buy seeds not in Obi, as we usually do, but bought from the Chinese on Aliexpress. They took seeds of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini and carrots.
Prices are about the same as in Russian stores, but we wanted to try foreign seeds. They say that they are better than ours, Russian ones.
One pack of 100 seeds cost us 75 rubles.
The seller gave us just such a seeder for the seeds. We did not expect such a small but pleasant gift. It turned out that it is convenient for her to dose seeds when planting.
In principle, you can do without a seeder, but with it the process goes a little faster.
So, now I will share the results:
Some of the carrots grew gigantic, but irregularly shaped - natural Siamese twins. And this despite the fact that we thinned out the garden notably:
Others have grown more regular in shape: long and with slight bends:
But we did not succeed in achieving a perfectly even shape, where the carrots are wide near the tops and smoothly taper downward. From the whole garden, not a single one came across.