Why spend carrots on the tape? Can I make my own hands from toilet paper and other materials?

It has long been assumed that laziness is not peculiar to true gardeners, but still everyone who plans to get excellent harvest as soon as possible wants to optimize the sowing process.

This task is perfectly well done by the tape carriage landing method. In the article you will find useful information on how to properly plant carrots on a special tape.

Also describes how to self-manufacture of such a tape from scrap materials at home.

What is a tape method?

Paper strips laid out on the beds and sprinkled with earth. When watering, the paper softens, the adhesive composition dissolves, and the root vegetable can develop unhindered.

Advantages and disadvantages

• Planting carrots on the tape helps get rid of the tedious thinning procedure.
• Root crops grow large and even.

This method of planting is not suitable for large-scale crops of carrots, because if you use purchased tape, it is very expensive, and to make them yourself in large quantities is time consuming.

Carrot seeds on the ribbon - this is not the best option for those who like to buy for the future. Germination of processed seeds directly depends on freshness..

When to land?

Considering the fact that the faster the tape and glue dissolves in the soil, the better the germination of seeds will be, you should not delay with planting. That spring, the soil contains enough moisture to dissolve the adhesive and paper. If you plant carrots in early April, in July it will be possible to harvest.

Also, the advantage of early planting is the possibility of re-seeding in case of poor germination.

Also ribbon method has established itself well when planting in the winter, if cold-resistant varieties are chosen for planting.

Which varieties to choose?

For belt planting fit any varieties of carrots that can grow in the local climate and soil. The difference is only in terms of ripening of a variety.

• Early varieties: Tushon, Children's Sweetness, Alyonka, Nandrin, Abaco.
• Mid-season varieties: Vitamin 6, Children's, Karotel, Nantes 4, Samson, Red kor, Losinoostrovskaya 13, Shantane Royal.
• Late varieties: Red giant, Queen of autumn, Emperor, Incomparable.

Where and for how much are glued paper strips sold?

You can purchase planting ribbons in specialized gardening shops or order it from an online store.

Prices in Moscow range from 40 to 100 rubles for a bag of seeds, in St. Petersburg from 37 to 90 rubles.

Step by step instructions: how to make yourself?

From toilet paper

Loose structure of toilet paper suitable for the manufacture of planting tapes. This can be done in the following way:

1. Cut the canvas into identical strips 2-3 cm wide. The length of the strips should be the same as the length of the bed.
2. Apply a thin layer of glue and spread the seeds.

We offer to watch a video on how to plant carrots on a tape made of toilet paper:

From napkins

1. Straighten a square napkin (if it is multi-layered - expand to the thinnest state).
2. Stick the seeds so that the distance between them and between the rows is about 5 cm.

When planting seeds on napkins to form grooves in the garden is not necessary. Napkins are simply laid out on well-spilled soil and are poured on top of the ground.

From the newspaper

The newspaper page is cut into strips 2 cm wide.

The paper must be either old or of low enough quality.so that it can be easily dissolved. For the manufacture of ribbons are not suitable glossy pages.

Making glue with your own hands

For all methods of self-production of tapes an important step is the preparation of the adhesive. This can be done in two ways.

From starch

1. Half a liter of pure water to bring to a boil.
2. In a half glass of water at room temperature, dissolve a couple of tablespoons of potato starch and mix thoroughly.
3. Pour the resulting solution into a boiling water in a thin stream and stir again.

From flour

1. In an enamelled container boil 0.5 liters of water.
2. Pour into the water 4 tbsp. flour, stirring constantly.
3. In the process of mixing can not prevent the formation of lumps.
4. As soon as the solution has a thick consistency, turn off the heat.

Before use, the glue must be cooled.

We offer you to watch a video on how to prepare a flour paste paste for planting carrots using the ribbon method:

Step-by-step instruction: how to plant in open ground?

Training

• Inventory. In order to facilitate the planting of seeds on the belt as much as possible, stock up with the following inventory:
  1. Cotton swabs or toothpicks.
  2. Ribbons for landing.
  3. Pre-prepared glue.
  4. A glass of water.
  5. You will also need some salt.
• Seed. In order for seeds to germinate, it is important to select viable specimens. For this:
  1. In a glass of water, dilute some salt and dip the seeds into the resulting solution.
  2. Those of them that remained on the surface of the water are not suitable for landing. Seeds that have gone to the bottom are suitable for planting, they need to be removed from the salt solution and dried at room temperature.

How to stick the seeds?

1. End the stick into the glue.
2. Catch a seed.
3. Stick to the tape.

You can also first put a drop of glue on the tape, and then lay out the seeds on it.

Prepared tape must be left for a day for drying, then twist into a roll.

Sowing process

How to plant carrots?

1. Choose a sunny spot on the plot.
2. Align the surface of the beds and make grooves at a distance of 20-25 cm from each other and a depth of about 3 cm.
3. If the soil is not sufficiently moistened, spill the grooves with water.
4. If the ribbons were purchased in the store, then they need to be laid in the grooves on the edge, if the planting material is prepared independently, you can arrange it horizontally.
5. Fill the grooves with a damp substrate and lightly tamp.
6. Top with a small layer of fine mulch.

All the benefits of such a method of planting can fade away if the wrong way to prepare the ground. The soil should be loose and nutritious..

Primary care of plants

1. Up to the first shoots, seeds need warmth and abundant watering.
2. Three weeks after the emergence of shoots, you can spend a nitrogen fertilizer.
3. After three weeks, spend potash supplements.

Errors in the tape mode

• Buying substandard planting material.
• Too much depth of planting material.
• Seeds are selected without taking into account the climatic conditions in which they were planned to grow.
• If the seeds are not immediately in contact with the soil immediately after planting, the seedlings may either linger very much or not at all.
• Insufficient watering and the formation of a crust, through which moisture can not get through to the seeds.

Shoots

When should appear?

How many carrots grow? The temperature and the variety of carrots have a great influence on germination.. If the air has warmed up to + 22-24 degrees, then the first shoots will appear in a week. If the temperature does not rise above +10, then shoots can be expected no earlier than in a month.

What to do if not appeared?

Why the carrot does not sprout and what to do?

1. If no sprouts appear within 20 days, new seeds can be planted.

   To do this, it is better to make fresh grooves between the old ones and spread the seeds into them.

   In this case, you need to be prepared for the fact that in the end all the seeds will emerge and the carrots will have to thin out.

2. It is possible to stimulate the germination of seedlings by frequent watering, especially if the weather is hot.
3. Wet beds can be covered with a film, in such a greenhouse the seeds will begin to grow vigorously. After the appearance of the first shoots shelter immediately removed.

Choose a purchase version of the ribbons or make them yourself, stimulate seed germination, or wait for natural shoots every gardener decides for himself. The only way to plant carrots for the ribbon method is that it is ideal for small-scale planting of carrots, greatly simplifies the process and allows you to get a crop of large and even root crops.

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