May 8th. It rained, and the ground warmed up. It's neither too hot nor too cold outside, about 10–12°C. I decided to plant carrots and onions.
Since we have a lot of voles and moles, I mix-plant them. Rodents hate the smell of onions.
I form beds from the soil I prepared, loosened, and fertilized with humus in the fall. I do this carefully, breaking up any clumps, as carrots prefer loose soil, and onions won't mind it either.
In each bed, I make furrows about 15-20 cm apart, 3-5 cm deep, depending on what I'm planting. For larger onions, I make them deeper.
I sprinkle a little ash around the edges where I'll be planting the onions and water them with warm water mixed with potassium permanganate, which is left over from soaking them. Oh, and I forgot to mention: before planting, I soaked the onion sets in a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
Then I dried it a little and cut off the excess stems so that they wouldn’t interfere with the sprouts.
So, I placed the prepared onions in furrows along the edges of the bed. In the middle, I planted carrots. I bought the carrots in strips and granules. They don't require any prep work. And the subsequent care is much easier, as they don't require thinning.
After laying down the seed strip, I lightly moistened it with warm water. This time, I didn't water the furrows before planting because it had rained. But if the weather is dry, you should definitely water the soil. Otherwise, the onions will bolt.
I planted calendula at the ends of the bed. Onions and carrots always don't grow well there, but this flower is very useful.
There weren't enough carrot seeds in the last bed. I decided to plant beets there. I had two types of seeds: regular and Dutch selection.
When the seedlings appear, I'll tell you how I fertilized and weeded them. I'll show you how they grow.
