Description of Berlicum Royal carrots
Before you start growing, you need to read the description of the Berlicum Royal carrot variety.
The variety is highly adaptable and can be grown in all regions except the northern ones. It cannot be planted in areas with a cold climate, since summer there does not last long and the root crops do not have time to fully ripen. The variety is unpretentious in cultivation and does not require careful care.
According to the external description, Royal carrots belong to the Berlicum variety. 1-2 months after planting, the plant forms an erect basal rosette, consisting of buds, leaves and roots. It is medium in size and has 10-15 leaves.
The roots have a conical shape with a blunt tip. Their length reaches 25 centimeters, and their average weight does not exceed 200 grams. The core and pulp of the carrots are bright orange.
The taste qualities of carrot fruits are high. They are juicy in taste and have a pleasant sweetish taste. Ripe root vegetables are very useful, as they contain ascorbic acid and B vitamins.
Interesting fact! Berlicum Royal is a variety, not a hybrid, as some vegetable growers believe.
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety
The main difference from other varieties is the increased content of carotene in the fruit pulp. There are 21 mg of carotene per 100 g of product, while other varieties contain mainly up to 9 mg.
Before planting a variety on a plot, you need to familiarize yourself with the advantages and disadvantages of the crop in order to be able to create the most favorable conditions that will help increase productivity and improve the quality of the final product.
- Among the advantages of the variety are:
- high taste qualities;
- versatility of fruit use - they can be eaten fresh, used in diet, or processed into juice and puree;
- long shelf life of the crop;
- ease of care;
- excellent adaptive abilities;
- high resistance to fungal diseases.
The only disadvantage of the culture in question is its poor resistance to cracking. But it can be corrected with the help of agricultural techniques.
Rules for planting carrots Berlicum Royal
To get a good harvest, you need to familiarize yourself with the features of planting and caring for Berlicum Royal carrots.
It is necessary to plant carrots in the second half of March or early April. The main thing is that the soil warms up to 5-7 degrees Celsius, and the air temperature does not fall below fifteen degrees. In southern regions with a warm climate, you can sow seeds before winter in mid-October.
The area where carrots will be grown must be dug up in advance to a depth of 10-15 centimeters. During digging, fresh manure is added to the soil in the amount of 10 kg per square meter. If the soil is heavy, it will have to be mixed with peat or sand in advance. Re-cultivation of the soil is carried out a month before planting the seeds. Wood ash and compost are added to it.
Red autumn has arrived - let's fill the bins! (Pumpkin and root vegetables)
September has passed the middle, the rains have begun to load and autumn is no longer cautiously, but with a confident step, beginning to walk around the property. And we go down to the basement and check if everything is ready for the onset of winter.
The main vegetables on the winter table will be root vegetables. We put the potatoes in the vegetable drawer:
Our land is not very “potato”, you see, there are both small and large tubers. Previously, we almost completely stopped planting this crop, then we bought high-quality potatoes, and the harvest became better. This year the varieties “Udacha”, “Magdach” and “Orchid” were planted. We also tried the Black Moor variety. Although our seven-dacha resident Natalya said that, most likely, this variety is “Lilac”. I’ll keep the old name “Black Moor” - that’s how it was presented to me. This potato blossomed very unusually:
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The fruits turned out to be very dark in color and were not immediately visible when dug up! I won’t say that it’s a productive variety, but we planted them later than the others. Next year it will be possible to more accurately judge the yield.
This is the “Black Moor” and regular potatoes:
When cut, the tubers turned out to be purple:
I decided to try them fried and boiled. I set it to cook:
I was told that these black potatoes turn gray after cooking. I dare to assure you that this one has retained its lilac color.
And I fried this portion:
Because of the color, however, it was difficult to determine the readiness of the potatoes. The Black Moor tasted ordinary. Next year I will still plant this variety. Very unusual! Purple potatoes are valued for their high content of antioxidants, which remove radionuclides and strengthen the walls of blood vessels. Purple varieties are diet varieties. And what more precisely to call it “Black Moor” or “Lilac”, or “Russian Blue Meat”, in principle, I don’t care. Let the experts decide.
Another favorite root vegetable is carrots.
During my gardening, I tried to sow both pelleted seeds and those treated with tyramine. Somehow I didn’t make friends with the sugar-coated ones. They germinated very poorly (most likely due to lack of moisture). Lately I’ve been buying simple, unprocessed ones, and preparing them for sowing myself. The fact is that carrot seeds contain essential oils that prevent rapid access of moisture to the embryo. Therefore, soaking the seeds is a must! I put them in a cloth, wash them several times in warm water, then soak them in an ash solution (1 tablespoon of ash per 1 liter) for a day. Then I wash them and put them wet in the refrigerator for 3-5 days. I dry it until it flows and start sowing. Such seeds, already swollen, germinate very well. To keep the carrots even, I definitely add sand to the garden bed. After the second true leaf appears, I thin out, leaving 3-4 cm between plants. In order not to attract the carrot fly, I immediately take the removed plants to the compost and water the garden bed.
I fed it twice during the season with nettle infusion.
We grow carrots for winter storage. Several times I tried to plant early, bunched. Did not like. The small ones grow, and in the summer we have enough for food even with the ones we thin out.
The varieties that I have given preference in recent years are “Kuroda Shantane” and “Berlicum Royal”. Seeds from "Search". Carrots are sweet and store very well until the next harvest.
" Kuroda Shantane " - Variety of Shantane. The root crop is short, conical, with a blunt tip. The core is orange. Fruit weight up to 160 g. Used fresh and for winter storage.
" Berlicum Royal ". Variety Berlicum. Late ripening variety. Root vegetables are cylindrical, smooth. Weight up to 260 g... Also for fresh use and for winter storage.
We store carrots in boxes, sprinkled with sand. Add a little ash to the sand. This way carrots are perfectly stored until spring.
Another root vegetable that we grow for winter storage is root celery.
Celery has a very long growing season, so I sow it for seedlings in February. The seeds also contain essential oils, so I wash them and soak them for three days, changing the water periodically. Then I dry the seeds and sow them in light soil, sprinkling a little (0.2 cm) with humus.
February 20, 2016 There is already one real leaf.
After the second leaf appears, I drop the seedlings into separate cups. At the beginning of May, the seedlings look like this:
I plant them in open ground when the soil warms up well - around the 20th of May. I fill the bed well with humus, add sand and ash. As it grows, I rake the soil away from the roots a little.
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Over the summer, I fed her three times with kuryak infusion with the addition of nettle infusion. The outer leaves were periodically torn off.
July 25, 2016:
Root vegetables in September:
I planted only two varieties. Dutch "Diamant" and "Maxim" from "Poisk". The varieties are very similar. They differ only in the color of the foliage.
"Diamond". Mid-season variety. The period from germination to technical ripeness is 150 days. The variety is resistant to flowering.
"Maksim". Late ripening variety. The pulp is creamy white, with a delicate piquant taste. Good keeping quality of fruits.
We also store celery in boxes with sand. In winter, I really like a salad made from celery root with the addition of carrots and apples.
Of course, we also grow beets. This year it was not successful, although every year there has always been a good harvest. The reason, most likely, is that the bed ended up in the same place where it grew last year. (This is how the lack of stationary beds affects us!).
And the harvest of my favorite pumpkin is again good.
This year I planted two varieties - “Atlant” and “Torpedo”. I collected the seeds myself and the result was such a variety! I think that last year’s “Sweetie” was cross-pollinated with “Torpedo” and the result was pumpkins of such an original shape. The peel is very similar in color and dots to “torpedo”
The section shows more towards Atlant.
The Atlant pumpkin grew the largest. Diameter: 129 cm! This is a mid-late variety. From germination to harvesting - 130 days. The pulp is yellow-orange, dense, juicy, tasty. The seeds were from Aelita.
I have been growing Torpedo for a long time. I like its sweet taste, the peel is not thick. But I use it first, so it doesn’t last that long.
I grew pumpkins from seedlings. At the beginning of May I sowed the seeds in pots, at the beginning of June I planted some in open ground in the garden bed, and a few in last year’s compost. We have serviceberry growing next to the compost. Several lashes reached the bush and several pumpkins grew on the branches of the serviceberry:
When growing a pumpkin, be sure to place a piece of plastic panel under it. It does not rot and can be used for several seasons.
We store the pumpkin in the basement on shelves. Our basement is dry and warm (which is not good for storing potatoes).
In the middle, “Atlant” has a lighter skin than other pumpkins.
My favorite pumpkin dish is casserole. Let me remind you of the recipe: 500 g pumpkin, 400 g cottage cheese, a glass of milk, 4-5 tbsp semolina, 2-3 eggs, 1/2 cup sugar, 50 g butter, 1-2 tbsp. sour cream, vanillin, salt. Stew the pumpkin, add butter to the warm pumpkin. Soak semolina in milk. Wipe the cottage cheese. Grind eggs with sugar, add cottage cheese, semolina, pumpkin, sour cream, salt, vanillin. Bake in the oven.
A warm casserole on a cold fall morning is so good!
Almost all the vegetables have been put away for storage. Only the late lady cabbage remained in the garden. We will remove it in mid-October. Let it gain more sweetness and juiciness. There are a lot of slugs this rainy year! And, although we dusted the heads of cabbage with ash several times, they spoiled the leaves (((. This year, from the later ones we have: “Gift” and “Belorusskaya 455”.
All that remains is to draw conclusions from your mistakes this year and prepare for the new season in 2022. Great harvests to everyone.
Rules for caring for Berlicum Royal carrots
When growing Berlicum Royal carrots, the following agrotechnical measures are carried out:
- watering;
- feeding;
- thinning;
- loosening.
The variety does not grow well in waterlogged soil and therefore is watered no more than once every three days. In hot summers, moisten the soil every other day. Approximately ten liters of water are consumed per square meter. Water heated in the sun is used for irrigation. Ten days before harvest, watering is stopped.
Fertilizers are applied for the first time immediately after the appearance of the first shoots. A fertilizing mixture consisting of nitrophoska and water is added to the soil. To apply fertilizing, a trench five centimeters deep is dug between the rows. A fertilizing mixture is poured into it, after which the ditch is dug in. After three weeks, wood ash and compost are added.
If you used loose carrot seeds during planting, you will have to thin out the plantings. First, they are thinned out so that the distance between the sprouts is at least 5 cm. The next time the procedure is carried out during the formation of the fruits.
When growing Berlicum Royal carrots, the soil must be loosened, as this improves the supply of oxygen to the root system. The procedure must be carried out carefully so as not to damage the sockets. Carrots are loosened after each watering or rain, when a crust appears on the surface of the soil.
Reviews from gardeners about Berlicum Royal carrots
Anastasia Grigorieva, 32 years old Two years ago I decided to grow carrots at the dacha, and for a long time I could not choose the right variety. After reading reviews about Berlicum Royal carrots, I decided to plant them and have never regretted it. For the second year in a row she pleases me with tasty and juicy fruits. The variety's productivity is high; 10-15 kilograms of crops can be harvested annually. I recommend to everyone!
Tatyana Lebedeva, 47 years old Having seen a photo of Berlicum Royal carrots on the Internet, she could not resist and decided to plant it. I had never grown vegetables before. But despite this, I had no problems with growing Royal. The root vegetables grew large, juicy and tasty. The variety surprised me with its keeping quality, since over the winter the collected root crops did not deteriorate and did not lose their taste.
