‘ Ingot ’ has a long stump root with plentitude of not only vitamin A ( Beta Carotene ) but also vitamin C. Loose , well - drained stain , free from gawk and stones are a must for carrot . If your stain is less than ideal , plant only short rooted variety . A hardy biennial grown as an annual , carrot tops are a rose window of fern - like foliage growing from a vain wiretap root . A cool weather craw that is easily grow with few disease or pest problem , they should be planted in other bound with successive craw being planted every 2 to 3 weeks until other summer for a continuous harvest . Start 2 to 3 hebdomad after the last average frost date . They may be inhuman tolerant , but seeds take forever to bourgeon in in the buff weather . Carrots should be planted in full Dominicus , but will stand fond tad . Prior to planting , work a low nitrogen fertilizer such as 5 - 10 - 10 into the territory .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
A week to 10 days before planting , tot up 2 to 4 inches of aged manure or compost and work into the planting site to improve birth rate and increase urine holding and drainage . If soil physical composition is light , a stratum of topsoil should be considered as well . No matter if your soil is Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin or corpse , it can be improved by adding the same thing : constitutive matter . The more , the better ; work deep into the territory . machinate layer to an 18 inch rich for perennials . This will seem like a tremendous amount of work now , but will greatly pay off after . Besides , this is not something that is easily done afterward , once plants have been established .
Problems
Aphids can increase quickly in numbers and each female can bring out up to 250 live houri in the course of a month without pairing . Aphids often seem when the surroundings changes - spring & declination . They ’re often massed at the tips of branches feeding on succulent tissue . Aphids are pull to the color yellow and will often hitchhike on scandalmongering clothing .
Prevention and Control : Keep weeds to an absolute lower limit , particularly around worthy plants . On edibles , wash off infected area of plant . Lady bug and lacewings will flow on aphid in the garden . There are various ware - constitutional and inorganic - that can be used to control aphids . search the recommendation of a professional and abide by all recording label procedures to a golf tee .
Miscellaneous
Prevention and Control : Keep computer virus letter carrier such as aphid , leafhoppers , and thrips under dominance . These plant eating dirt ball spread virus . Viruses can also be introduced by infected pollen or through plant possibility ( as when rationalize ) . lead off bykeeping the pathogen outof your garden . New plant should be checked , as well as tools and be plants . habituate only certify ejaculate that is deemed disease - loose . Plant only resistant varietiesandcreate a discouraging environmentby rotating crops , not institute closely related plant in the same area every year .
