Tushon carrots: description, photo, specifications, agricultural technology

Carrots are a favorite, popular, and healthy vegetable. Today there are many varieties with different characteristics. The article will talk about the variety carrots "Tushon", we will give his description, tips on sowing and care, photos of what grows with all the recommendations.

Description and photo
Characteristics of a variety
Advantages and disadvantages
The choice of location and time for cultivation
- Lighting and location
- Soil type
- When to start landing?
Sowing seeds
- Preparation of planting material
- Sowing scheme
Grade Care
Harvest

Description and photo

"Tushon" - it is an early ripe grade of carrots. Refers to the Amsterdam cultivar. The form of "Tushon" is cylindrical, smooth, eyes almost invisible. The length of the root is 15-20 cm. It has tender and sweet flesh. It is intended for cultivation in an open ground. Resistant to temperature changes. For ripening takes about 3 months after sowing. It belongs to the universal varieties and is used in cooking, suitable for use in raw form, it is recommended for baby food.

We advise you to read about such varieties of carrots as: "Nantes", "Samson", "Shantane 2461", purple and black carrots.

Characteristics of a variety

Fruits are cylindrical in shape.
Productivity 4-5 kg / sq. m
Ripening period 80-90 days.
Sugar content is 6-8%.
The content of carotene 11,5-11,9%.

Advantages and disadvantages

Gardeners love "Tushon" for such traits:

high and constant yield;
resistance to disease and cracking of fruits;
short term ripening;
Good appearance and sweet taste.
Of the minuses can be identified unless a short shelf life.

The choice of location and time for cultivation

So, how to grow this wonderful vegetable?

Lighting and location

To create beds under the "Tushon", select an open and sunny place. Shadow slows growth, so it is undesirable for Tushon to grow under trees or against the walls of buildings.

Did you know? For the successful growth of carrots should be taken into account and the culture that grew in this place last season. The best predecessor is considered to be potatoes, onions, cucumbers.

Soil type

The soil should be loose and well drained. Best of all, the root crop will feel on the eaves-on-earth and loams. If your land is heavy and clay, then it would be nice to add sand and sawdust there to ease it.

When to start landing?

The term of sowing can be calculated, taking into account the term of ripening.

The optimal time for sowing is March and April.

Important! Carrots can withstand frosts of up to 3 degrees, so if a warm spring is expected, then it can be planted in February windows.

Sowing seeds

Now let's talk directly about the seed itself.

Preparation of planting material

Before sowing you need to prepare the seeds themselves. It is best to soak them for a day in water or any accelerator of growth. For even distribution of seeds in the beds, mix them with sand in a 2: 1 ratio.

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Another option is to pre-stick the seeds on toilet paper. Starch is suitable as an adhesive. Soak these seeds will not work, so after sowing they must be very rich to water.

Sowing scheme

Seeds should be sown in rows, to a depth of 2-3 cm.Try to maintain a distance between seeds of 2 cm. In this way, you can avoid thinning heavily thickened crops.

Immediately after sowing, be sure to water the beds.

To ensure optimal conditions for growth and accelerate germination, it is worthwhile to mulch the beds. Having filled carrots with hay, straw, peat, compost, you will save crops from weathering, you will be able to water them less often. In the future, the remaining covering material will serve as additional fertilizer.

Good predecessors for carrots are - plants of the family solanaceous (tomatoes, potatoes), pumpkin (cucumbers, zucchini), legumes (beans, beans). Do not fit the plots from under crops with similar diseases and pests, these include: dill, parsley, parsnip and cumin.

Grade Care

Care is watering, thinning, loosening.

The most important procedure, of course, is watering. Abundant, but not very frequent, watering will help grow large and sweet carrots.

Important! Surface watering provokes an increase in hairiness and the formation of an uneven shape of root crops.

Before harvesting, when the carrots are already formed, you can stop watering.

The next important operation is thinning. Thick thickets inhibit the development of root crops, and carrots turn out thin and frail. Therefore, it is necessary to pull out extra plants. Produce it in two stages. First, the distance between plants is adjusted to 12 cm (for large varieties - up to 15 cm). Then you need to bring this distance to 22-25 cm.

Another procedure - loosening. Loosen can be simultaneously with weeding and thinning, and after watering. By providing air access to the roots, you can get good and strong roots.

Harvest

Cleaning is done as the carrots ripen. When the roots reach maturity, juice will be gathered, they will become large - carefully dig them out, trying not to damage or cut. Clean the harvested carrots, rinse and put to dry in a well-ventilated place.