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The early-ripening carrot variety Nandrin is loved by farmers and ordinary gardeners. In the last decade, this variety has gained great popularity. Carrot Nandrin F1 is a hybrid that is used to sow both large fields of farmers and small beds in vegetable gardens. The variety type of this hybrid is Nantes/Berlicum. Seeds arrive in Russia from Holland, which produces the Nandrin F1 hybrid. They are treated with a special substance that prevents the development of diseases and repels carrot pests, so you should avoid soaking before sowing.
Description
Since Nandrin is an early ripening carrot with a growing season of 95 to 105 days, it manages to ripen in a short summer in the Center of Russia and in its Northern regions.
This carrot has a very beautiful appearance: the fruits have a regular cylindrical shape, smooth, without cracks or other flaws, the tip is not sharp, but rounded. The weight of a mature fruit is from 150 g to 250 g, the length reaches 20 cm.
Peculiarities
This variety has dense, juicy, sweet pulp with a high carotene content. Due to the small core, the amount of pulp increases, which makes it possible to obtain more carrot juice, rich in vitamins. People say: “Carrots add blood,” so this juice is used in the treatment of anemia and lack of vitamins, especially vitamin A.
How to store
Hybrid carrots are stored very well without losing their qualities. It will last well in the vegetable store until the end of spring, unlike other early-ripening varieties. It follows from this that carrots of the Nandrin variety, due to their ability to retain their marketable appearance for a long time, are of interest for trade. Therefore, you can buy Nandrin carrots at any counter, be it a market or a store, at almost any time, right up to the new harvest.
What is the yield
Nandrin F1 is one of the high-yielding carrot varieties. Farmers usually remove 5-7 kg of fruit from one square meter, which means that 50-70 tons of this wonderful product are obtained from 1 hectare. On a personal plot, by manually cultivating beds, you can achieve a larger yield - approximately 8-9 kg per square meter.
Rules of agricultural technology for Nandrin F1 carrots
This variety does well in light soil with low acidity. It likes watering, but not excessively, since waterlogged and heavy soil is not suitable for this carrot.
Sowing
Carrots are a fairly cold-resistant plant; for germination it is enough for the ground to warm up to 3-4 degrees. There is no need to worry if there is another frost after sowing.
Even emerging seedlings are not afraid of frost down to -4 Celsius. Carrot seeds are small, the content of essential oils in them is quite high, which slows down the germination process. Shoots appear only 14-16 days after sowing.
You can regulate the time of fruit ripening by several sowings:
- In order for fresh carrots to appear on the table as early as possible, they should be sown in winter, around mid-October, while there is no snow.
- If you sow Nandrin carrots in the spring, as mentioned above, it will be available in August.
- To harvest the crop in late September-early October for storage, sowing must be done in mid-June.
Before sowing, it is necessary to remove all weeds and thoroughly loosen the soil in the garden bed. Make grooves at a distance of 15-20 centimeters from each other. Place the seeds in these grooves, keeping 1-2 cm intervals between them, so as not to do thinning in the future, which could cause injury to the plants.
Conditions for obtaining a good harvest
- It is important to choose the right place to plant. There should be no weeds in the garden bed, especially large ones like wheatgrass. It is good to plant carrots after cucumbers, onions, cabbage, and nightshade crops, since organic fertilizer is usually applied to them, which is quite enough for carrots.
- Soil acidity should not be high, within 6-7 units.
- It is better to fertilize the soil before sowing carrot seeds only with complex mineral fertilizers.
How to care for carrots
- When the seedlings reach about three centimeters, they need to be thinned out so that the distance between the plants is about two centimeters.
- After some time, when the diameter of the root crop becomes 0.5-1 cm, thinning should be done again. Now leave 4 to 6 centimeters between the carrots.
- Weeding is very important during this period.In order for the plant to gain strength, nothing should interfere with it and take nutrients from the soil. Therefore, all weeds should be removed, and then loosened between the rows to ensure oxygen access to the root crop.
- While the fruit is filling, it needs watering, not too often and not too abundant (5-6 liters of water per 1m2).
When to Harvest
The earliest harvest of Nandrin carrots is obtained during the second thinning. At this time, the root crop reached a size of about 1 cm in diameter, which indicates its suitability for food. This is especially valuable at this time of year, since there are still few ripe vegetables in the garden.
When the fruits sown in June are fully ripe, they need to be dug up with a pitchfork, carefully pulled out by the tops, shaken off the ground and folded along the edges of the bed to dry. After 3-4 hours, you can start preparing the carrots for storage, that is, cut off the tops, sort the fruits by size, small ones can be used for animal feed or juice, put medium and large fruits in a container, sprinkled with dry sand or sawdust. Put it in the cellar.
If agrotechnical rules are followed, the Nandrin F1 carrot harvest will be excellent. Farmers and amateur gardeners give good reviews about the Nandrin hybrid. It is most valued for its high resistance to diseases and pests, abundant harvest, keeping quality, excellent taste characteristics and uniformity of fruits.
Reviews from gardeners
Our gardeners have good reviews of this carrot. Here are some of them:
In my opinion, it is erroneously stated that the main harvest occurs in the fall, 95-105 days after sowing, most likely AFTER the seeds have germinated.
In addition to the above comment, I would like to add what method I used to sow carrots.
Since tomatoes grew in this bed last year, and they were mulched with a very thick layer of mown grass, in the spring I dug up the bed to the full length of a shovel and hid the former mulch in the ground. It was deep digging and a huge amount of grass-mulch (which later turned into a loose mass and decomposed) that played a role in ensuring that the carrots grew from 20 to 25 centimeters (I’m not lying to her)! And the hot May and June in 2019, namely sunny days, favored very rapid ripening of carrots of both hybrids.
To our delight, both hybrids grew up almost identical in size, taste and without being affected by any diseases or pests. At the same time, Nandrin, unfortunately, came across several carrots with three trunks...
I make the grooves using a handle from a shovel and a sledgehammer. I put a cutting on the garden bed and hit it with a sledgehammer so that the half-size cutting ends up in the ground about 3 centimeters... Then I pull it out of the ground and after 22-25 cm I put it on the bed and repeat the procedure again. As a result, these boat holes are obtained...
I lay out the treated (fungicide-treated) seeds in them and cover them with soil mixed with peat and sand to a depth of 1.5 - 2 cm. After that, I water them from a watering can and cover them with covering material. In the future, I water over the covering material. I remove the covering material when the carrots sprout so that it does not interfere with its growth.
Previously, I grew Queen of Autumn, Canada, Samson carrots, but the Napoli and Nandrin hybrids are superior to all these listed varieties, and sometimes there are mismatched seeds in bags... Last year I sowed the Queen of Autumn, but some squiggles grew, and even with a large core , relative to the size of the fetus.
And now a request to the site owners. Do not write (or with your permission) do not write the phrase “plant carrot seeds.” Carrot seeds are SOWED. Thank you!
Nandrin chose carrots by chance while studying the characteristics of the offered assortment in the Semyon store on Yablochkova. He paid attention to disease resistance, early ripening, excellent taste, size and weight of the fruit.
As a result, he acquired Nandrin and Napoli. There are 120 seeds in the package of Nandrin, and 140 seeds in Naprli (it turned out to be 110 and 140 seeds) and sowed 4 furrows of Nandrin and 5 furrows of Napoli.
I sown the seeds on April 24, 2019. Since the seeds were coated, it was easy to count their number in the furrow. At the beginning of July, beautiful and tasty fruits were already being pulled out.The grandchildren ate them with great pleasure. The characteristics indicated in the description correspond to the parameters 100%.
In the same bed and on the same day, I sowed 15 furrows of Incomparable carrots... It cannot be compared with Nandrin and Napoli, since it is much inferior to them both in size and taste, only its tops are high, in this Incomparable is superior to both of these hybrids.
For the future, I will buy the Nandrin and Napoli varieties and sow these hybrids... as early Napoli, and Nandrin for storage in the winter... and I will sow Nandrin in 2 stages, the first in mid-April, and the second in the first ten days of June!