Circus freaks or why the carrot grows curve

I think there is no gardener, who is not faced with the fact that quite a lot of carrots begins to branch out, grow curve and can greatly amuse us with their forms during the harvest.

But that's kept this carrot will not be long, and clean it is inconvenient, it is necessary to cut off a lot of superfluous, though it tastes no different from smooth carrot.

Why carrot grows curve?

The reasons for this branch of carrots can be a few and now I will tell you the key to a strong influence on the shape of the carrot.

heavy soil

If your area is heavy, clay soil, it is likely, carrots will often branch. Desirably such loosen the soil as much as possible and to add fertilizers to the soil (manure, humus, etc.) To improve the soil.

wrong watering

Lateral roots of the carrots begin to form when the plant lacks nutrients and water, and carrots is trying to find them, beginning to grow in different directions. But overdo it with watering is not necessary, or carrots will crack.

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Too frequent landing

Often people forget to thin out the carrots in time and, therefore, the roots begin to interfere with each other and grow thin, long, with a large number of processes.

And there are a few less common causes that may affect the shape of the carrot:

• you make the soil too much nitrogen fertilizer, such as manure or mullein;
• conducted soil deoxidation directly before planting carrots. This is best done in autumn after the harvest in the garden is assembled;
• in soil for many foreign objects, stones and other debris, which interfere with the normal growth of carrots;
• the easiest way to determine the acidity of the soil on the site, I told here;
• You planted carrots in the soil is too loose, it is best to dig a flower bed in the fall and spring before planting only proryhlit (not dig!)

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