Often, gardeners use common products to feed carrots and control pests. Fertilizer and chemicals can replace ordinary table salt. But you need to know when to use it and in what proportions to feed.
The article will tell you what salt is used as a fertilizer, what are the rules for feeding, as well as the pros and cons of this method. In addition, we give you a step-by-step instructions for fertilizer.
Can I feed the carrot with salt water?
Gardeners often practice watering carrot beds with water and salt. By itself, it does not bring benefit or harm.
This watering does not like carrot and onion flies. Carry it out and to increase the sweetness of the roots.
What is it for?
- If the crop grows in places with barren and heavy soil, saline watering is necessary.
Salt also has a beneficial effect on carrots and increases the amount of carotene in it.
- When the first signs of the development of late blight are found on the beds, the ripening of carrots should be accelerated. In this case, fertilizing with phosphorus and potassium is also required.
- Spraying carrot tops with a saline solution helps a lot with slug fighting.
Pros and cons of the method
Despite the widespread use of the method, it has its advantages and disadvantages.. Cons: Salt is sodium chloride. Its excess in the soil leads to the fact that the earth becomes dense. Water can not get to the roots of plants. A carrot does not absorb the nutrients that are contained in the soil.
The following may occur:
- Plants do not develop well.
- A poor crop will be harvested.
- Chlorosis.
- The rapid consumption of humus in the ground. As a result, it will be necessary to add organic fertilizer.
It turns out that the soil takes water from the roots of plants, and they do not take it from the ground. As a result, carrot plantings may wither.
But the method has a lot of advantages. Salt can be called fertilizer. It contains a rich content of elements, thanks to which the nutrients contained in the soil are better absorbed by plants. Gardeners use salt for the following purposes:
- Pest control.
- Feed and improve the quality of carrots.
- Acceleration of ripening.
- Protection against the death of plants affected by the blight.
- Effective in protecting against onion flies.
In the correct proportions, table salt will bring only benefit in the country or garden. Its use is economical and environmentally friendly.
Step-by-step instructions for irrigating crops in the open field
To properly conduct the procedure you need to prepare everything you need.
Inventory
Gardeners will need:
- Tablespoon.
- Bucket.
- Sea or table salt.
- Garden sprayer.
- Watering can.
Time of use
- If the main purpose of watering is fertilizing the soil, it is flavored with a solution at the end of July or the beginning of August. It is at this time that roots actively ripen.
- To combat carrot fly landing is recommended to be processed in early June. The procedure is repeated in two weeks.
How to prepare and apply the solution?
When irrigating the carrot harvest with salt water, it is important to respect the proportions. If sea salt is used instead of table salt, you need to take one and a half times more.
From rot
To prevent carrot rotting, add one tablespoon of salt to a 10 l bucket. Pour the prepared solution after planting the rain or a previously spilled bed with clean cool water.
For feeding
The solution is prepared as follows:
- cool bucket of boiled water;
- add two tablespoons of salt.
Feeding is carried out by spraying under the tops. On heavy and poor badlands the method gives a good result.
From pests
- If the tops are brownish-red and fadeLanding affected carrot fly. To get rid of this trouble will help the salt solution. Processing of beds is carried out three times:
- The first watering - 300 g of salt in a bucket of water.
- Second watering - 500 g of salt in a bucket.
- The third treatment is 600 g of salt.
Watering is carried out with a difference of two weeks.
- If crops are affected by powdery mildewthat often occurs due to low watering, a salt solution will also help. For its preparation will require:
- one glass of milk;
- 750 ml of water;
- one teaspoon of table salt.
Planting is done using a garden sprayer. Thanks to milk, salt will destroy the fungus. And after the first rain will be washed away, and the plants will not harm.
- With the defeat of carrots late blight spraying will help with the following solution:
- 8 tablespoons of salt;
- 2 liters of warm water.
- To scare away slugs, you need to take 100 grams of salt per 1 liter of water and spray the tops of the prepared solution.
To accelerate ripening
In this case, carrots need to be carefully poured over with a solution of table salt prepared from:
- 1 tablespoon of salt;
- on a bucket of water.
If the carrot develops poorly and does not taste sweet, you can do the following:
- In a bucket of warm boiled water dissolve 50 grams of salt.
- Spray the planting solution under the tops.
It is advisable to do such feeding in the early summer, when the tops will only appear.
The solution should not be poured under the root, but into the grooves at a distance of 10 cm from the root. To use or not table salt, each owner must decide for himself. However, experts recommend replacing it with potash.
Errors and their consequences
When treating with salt solution, proportions must be observed correctly. for its preparation. Otherwise, unpleasant consequences may occur, the most serious of which is a strong salinization of the soil.
Chlorine and sodium from the soil displace:
- potassium;
- magnesium;
- phosphorus.
Landings will develop poorly on the ground. From excess sodium, the earth will be excessively densepetrified and will not let water through. In order to avoid negative consequences, it is necessary to observe the correct concentration of salt, without increasing its amount.
To eliminate the effects of oversaturation of the soil with salt, organic fertilizers can be applied in an increased amount in the fall, such as humus or compost.
Carrot beds should not be watered with a solution of fluorinated or iodized salt. These substances can easily burn the tops.
Some gardeners are sure that watering with salt is the right decision, others are totally against the procedure. But need to remember that everything should be done in moderation. And when watering carrots with a saline solution diluted correctly and according to the problems found, a rich harvest will be obtained.
