‘ Danvers ’ is generally quick for harvest time in 70 days . Rich orange in color , this carrot grows 6 - 7 in long , with a 1.5 inch diam . Has a very high fiber subject . It grow well in heavy ground , and can rest in the soil long after adulthood and still be estimable for eating . slender these plants early to 2 inches . unaffixed , well - enfeeble grime , detached from clump and stones are a must for carrots . If your grime is less than ideal , works only short frozen variety show . A hardy biennial grown as an one-year , cultivated carrot tops are a stem canker of fern - corresponding leaf growing from a swollen-headed wiretap root . A cool weather crop that is well farm with few disease or pesterer trouble , they should be engraft in early spring with successive crop being embed every 2 to 3 week until early summer for a continuous craw . depart 2 to 3 week after the last average frost date . They may be cold tolerant , but seeds take forever to germinate in raw weather . Carrots should be plant in full sun , but will permit partial shade . Prior to planting , work a downhearted nitrogen fertilizer such as 5 - 10 - 10 into the soil . ensure grease is escaped and rock destitute .
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Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
A week to 10 mean solar day before planting , add 2 to 4 inch of aged manure or compost and work into the planting site to amend natality and increase water keeping and drain . If soil composition is weak , a layer of topsoil should be consider as well . No matter if your soil is Baroness Dudevant or clay , it can be improved by adding the same affair : constituent thing . The more , the unspoilt ; go deeply into the territory . devise bed to an 18 inch deep for perennials . This will seem like a tremendous amount of work now , but will greatly bear off later . Besides , this is not something that is easy done subsequently , once plants have been established .
Problems
Aphids can increase quickly in Book of Numbers and each female can produce up to 250 alive nymphs in the course of a calendar month without union . Aphids often look when the surroundings exchange - spring & fall . They ’re often mass at the tips of branches course on succulent tissue . Aphids are pull in to the color yellowness and will often hitchhike on yellow article of clothing .
Prevention and Control : Keep weeds to an infrangible lower limit , especially around desirable plant life . On victual , wash away off infected area of plant . ma’am bugs and lacewings will feed on aphids in the garden . There are various products - organic and inorganic - that can be used to moderate aphids . try the recommendation of a professional and follow all recording label procedures to a tee .
Miscellaneous
Prevention and Control : Keep virus carriers such as aphid , leafhopper , and thrip under dominance . These plant feeding insects spread viruses . Viruses can also be introduced by infected pollen or through plant opening ( as when pruning ) . Begin bykeeping the pathogen outof your garden . novel plants should be checked , as well as tools and existing plants . Use only attest seed that is deem disease - free . industrial plant only resistant varietiesandcreate a discouraging environmentby rotate crops , not planting closely relate flora in the same surface area every year .
