How to quickly weed and process carrots with weed control kerosene
It is a joy to every gardener when the garden is well-groomed and gives a stable harvest. To ensure order and the necessary conditions, an action plan is needed to eliminate undesirable factors, for example, weeding carrots with kerosene.
The first priority that any summer resident does is get rid of weeds and weeds, which hinder the favorable growth of crops. Here, as they say, all effective tools that have been tested by time and experience are good.
In the processing of crops that will subsequently end up on the consumer's table, the main thing is safety for human health.
For some time, the most recognized and, in the opinion of gardeners, an effective way to eliminate unwanted vegetation has been weeding carrots with pure kerosene or its solution. To use this method, you need to know the dilution rules, the proportions of the solution and the nuances of how to properly process the carrots with kerosene. The main thing is not to damage the future harvest.
Tips from experienced summer residents
Seedlings of carrots peep out of the ground after a sufficient amount of time. It will take time to see the first shoots: it usually takes thirty to forty days from the date of sowing. It is no wonder that while the seeds of the vegetable are trying to germinate, the weeds will begin their destructive effect, and the garden bed can be completely covered with weeds, which will take away all the nutrients and useful elements, and very little will get carrots, as a result of which the vegetable grows slowly and the harvest becomes smaller.
How to weed carrots? As a rule, the grass is simply pulled out. This method is not entirely suitable for young seedlings, because the roots have not yet matured, and with a weed you can extract them from the ground. The sprouts of the culture are thin and invisible in the grass, they can be pulled out, which will harm the plant, and the yield will be much less.
As an alternative to pulling, summer residents plant various leafy crops or radishes with carrots. Seedlings of these plants germinate very quickly, occupy free space, giving no chance to weeds.
So you can safely weed carrots, simply pulling out crops planted with carrots, without fear of weak roots. If gardeners weeded carrot beds in this way, then you can process carrots with the help of improvised garden tools (garden shears).
Helper plants can be removed when they reach about six centimeters in height, then the carrots will get stronger. The vegetable will receive the required amount of the necessary substances, will grow fully and in the future will please with its large sizes.
Now let's go directly to kerosene. Experienced gardeners use it for large-scale planting, when they solve the problem of how to quickly weed carrots.You can only cultivate the beds where the seedlings are not yet visible, but the weeds are already large enough.
How to properly prepare a solution
You will need 100 grams of pure kerosene per square meter. To achieve the complete death of weeds, you need to water the carrots with kerosene: you need to water it all over the garden. To consolidate the effect, you can spray it again after a few days, usually 10 - 14. This is how all unwanted vegetation will die.
It is difficult to perform weed treatments if the grass is very dense.
A softer way to quickly weed carrots is to dilute kerosene with water. Proportions: kerosene (1 glass) is diluted with water (bucket). The method is the same: we spray the ridge with a dense layer, you can walk several times. We repeat the procedure in a few days.
Spraying is best done in sunny weather, when no rain is expected in the next day. Weeds die and dry up within a few hours, they can be removed or cut on carrots with scissors or removed with gloves. As a result, the ridge remains clean, and the weeds do not disturb for a long time. It is worth to loosen the ground after using a fork or other tools.
If we compare a herbicide and kerosene, then when the kerosene is diluted with water, there is no pungent smell. Gardeners note that in some cases, the treated soil in the garden does not give a smell at all.
Another important and indisputable advantage, when comparing a herbicide and kerosene, will be that kerosene is safe for carrots. This treatment does not use highly toxic and harmful chemicals like biocides, which include pesticides and herbicides that kill everything. These compositions can have a negative effect on the soil itself, in which vegetable crops will grow in the future. Herbicides, in turn, actively destroy all living things, including the seedlings of carrots, the gardener may not save. Whether or not to use a herbicide is a personal matter, but the use of kerosene in this situation is preferable.
Of course, this method is not universal: you need to take into account all the factors that affect the result of weeding. The main thing is to keep in mind that the seedlings of the vegetable should not be during processing, otherwise the kerosene will damage the young and weak shoots.
Kerosene aggressively affects not only weeds, parasites, but also the soil. After such treatment, it is imperative to add bioactivators. I recommend using the "BioGrow».