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Crunchy and tasty, the Dragon carrot develops an orange heart and red skin. Children love it. Watch out for cutworms and earwigs. Insect netting is recommended in August for carrot fly control.
Growing tips for the Dragon carrot
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🌱 Everything you need to know about carrot seeds for a successful vegetable garden 🌱
The best storage carrot varieties to grow?
Classics like the Danvers carrot, known for its size and longevity, or the Dragon , appreciated for its purplish-red color.
🌈 Wondering when and how to plant your carrot seeds ?
Choose light, well-drained soil, ideal for promoting rapid germination. For staggered harvests, try successive sowings.
🌟 Why aren't your carrot seeds germinating ?
Make sure to maintain consistent humidity and sow at an ideal temperature, around 15-20°C. Finally, for a productive vegetable garden, opt for organic carrot seeds, perfect for sustainable and tasty cultivation. 🥕
The Danvers type carrot
Named after the town of Danvers, Massachusetts, where it was developed, this carrot is distinguished by its conical shape and broad shoulders. Its foliage is abundant and its root reaches 18 to 24 cm. Slower than the Nantes carrot to develop its sugar content, it makes a good storage carrot. It produces well in clay soils.
Yves Gagnon
Carrot growing conditions
Carrots tolerate light frosts, so they can be sown early in spring. They require a sunny location and light, deep, moist soil rich in humus. They are best grown on beds or ridges. In clay soils, suitable cultivars should be chosen, such as miniature carrots, Chantenays, or Danvers. Stony soils produce forked carrots, while compacted soils prevent the roots from reaching their full size. Since carrots are frugal, soil amendments are generally not necessary if the previous crop has received a good supply of compost. However, poor soil can be amended with 500 kg of mature compost per 100 m2. No nitrogen fertilizers should be used, as they produce hairy, bitter carrots. The ideal pH for growing carrots is between 5.5 and 6.8.
Carrot crop rotation
Carrots are grown at the end of the rotation after growing demanding plants. They are often found in the third year of the rotation, before growing green manure.
Carrot Companionship
Carrots can be grown in association with beets, parsnips, kohlrabi, turnip, rutabaga and radishes. Despite common recommendations to this effect in the literature, close companionship with onions should be avoided, which reduces air circulation around the lily leaves, thus promoting the appearance of fungal diseases. However, carrot and onion beds can be grown together to advantage. Chinese coriander has a repellent effect on the carrot fly. It can be sown in the row every 50 cm; ideally, two coriander sowings should be made, one at the same time as the carrots and the other 1 month later. Radish seeds sown in the row every 10 cm allow the row to be marked and thus the first hoeing can be carried out without harming the germinating seeds. Peas and beans are also good neighbors for carrots.
— These valuable tips were written by Yves Gagnon, in the book The ecological cultivation of vegetable plants , Colloidal Editions.
