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After harvesting, remove all but 1 to 2 inches of the edible carrot greens, rinse and thoroughly dry the roots, and store your carrot harvest in your fridge, freezer, or root cellar—or preserve ...
When first cultivated, carrots were grown for their aromatic leaves and seeds rather than their roots. Carrot seeds have been found in Switzerland and Southern Germany dating back to 2000–3000 BC. [17] Some close relatives of the carrot are still grown for their leaves and seeds, such as parsley, coriander (cilantro), fennel, anise, dill and ...
Root crops like daikon, carrots, radishes, beets, parsnips, and turnips aerate the soil and can be harvested for food. "In areas where I want to improve soil organic matter, I sometimes plant ...
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Vigna lanceolata (bush carrot or bush potato) Cassava tuberous roots. Tuberous root. Amorphophallus galbra (yellow lily yam) Conopodium majus (pignut or earthnut) Dioscorea spp. (yams, ube) Dioscorea polystachya (nagaimo, Chinese yam, Korean yam, mountain yam, white ñame) Hornstedtia scottiana (native ginger) Ipomoea batatas (sweet potato)
A Carrot Harvester is an agricultural machine for harvesting carrots. Carrot harvesters are either top lifters or share lifters and may be tractor mounted, trailed behind a tractor or self-propelled. [1] [2] The machine typically harvests between one and six rows of carrots at once.
Start a compost pile and add kitchen vegetable scraps and shredded leaves, which can be used to mulch plants and enrich the soil. Cardboard and newspapers can be used between rows to smother weeds.
Carrot leaf blight is especially damaging in that its leaf lesions not only reduce photosynthetic area, but also weaken the leaves and petioles structurally. This makes mechanical harvesting of the carrot crop less efficient, and yields are even worse when blighted leaves have been exposed to heavy frosts.