Every gardener is happy when the garden is well-groomed and produces 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.
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The first thing any summer resident does is get rid of weeds and weeds that interfere with the favorable growth of crops. Here, as they say, all effective means that are tested by time and experience are good.
When processing crops that will subsequently end up on consumers’ tables, the main thing is safety for human health.
For some time now, the most recognized and, according to gardeners, effective way of eliminating 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 treat carrots with kerosene. The main thing is not to damage the future harvest.
Advice from experienced summer residents
Carrot shoots emerge from 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 moment 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 bed can be completely covered with weeds, which will take away all the nutrients and useful elements, and very few carrots will be available, 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 become strong, and with the weed you can remove them from the ground. The sprouts of the crop are thin and invisible in the grass; they can be pulled out, which will harm the plant, and the harvest will be much smaller.
As an alternative to pulling, gardeners plant various leaf crops or radishes along with carrots. The seedlings of these plants germinate very quickly and occupy free space, not giving weeds a chance.
This way, you can safely weed carrots by simply pulling out crops planted with carrots, without fear for weak roots. If gardeners weeded carrot beds this way, then you can process carrots using improvised garden tools (garden shears).
Helper plants can be removed when they reach a height of about six centimeters, then the carrots will get stronger. The vegetable will receive the required amount of necessary substances, will grow fully and in the future will delight you with its large size.
Now let's move directly to kerosene. Experienced gardeners use it for large-scale sowing, when solving the problem of how to quickly weed carrots. You can only cultivate beds where seedlings are not yet visible, but the weeds are already quite large in size.
How to prepare the solution correctly
You will need 100 grams of pure kerosene per square meter. To achieve complete death of the weeds, you need to water the carrots with kerosene: you need to water the entire area of the bed. To consolidate the effect, you can spray again after a few days, usually 10–14. This way all unwanted vegetation will die.
It is difficult to treat weeds if the grass grows very thickly.
A gentler 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 after a few days.
Spraying is best done in sunny weather, when no rain is expected in the next 24 hours. The weeds die and dry out within a few hours; they can be removed or cut off onto the carrots with scissors or removed using gloves. As a result, the ridge remains clean, and weeds do not bother you for a long time. It is worth loosening the soil afterwards using a fork or other tools.
If we compare the herbicide and kerosene, then when kerosene is diluted with water, no pungent odor remains. Gardeners note that in some cases the treated soil in the garden does not smell at all.
Another important and undeniable advantage when comparing herbicide and kerosene is that kerosene is safe for carrots. This treatment does not use very toxic and harmful chemicals such as biocides, which include pesticides and herbicides that kill everything. These compounds can also have a negative impact on the soil itself in which vegetable crops will grow in the future. Herbicides, in turn, actively destroy all living things, including carrot seedlings, the gardener may not be able to protect them. 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 will affect the result of weeding. The main thing is to keep in mind that there should be no vegetable sprouts during processing, otherwise the kerosene will damage the young and weak sprouts.
