Carrots, although you probably did not even know - the plant is a two-year plant. For the first year it gives a rosette of leaves and a juicy, tasty and healthy root crop, and on the second - fruits and seeds.
Root carrots are, more likely, not a fruit, because with its help it is impossible to propagate a plant. The fruit of carrots is what is formed in the second year after flowering. After flowering, the umbrella develops seeds suitable for sowing and growing carrots.
How many times does the carrot bear fruit?
On the question - how many times in a life fructifies carrots, the answer unequivocal - one. After flowering and collecting seeds, the carrot simply dies and is uprooted. That is, it turns out that for its two-year life the plant fructifies once. In order to get its fruits and seeds, carrots should simply be left for winter in the ground for a second year. So that it does not freeze, you need to wrap it up.
To carrot fruits were strong and healthy, carrots-repeaters can be poured with lime milk. You can mulch testes not only in winter. In spring and summer, thanks to the mulch, carrots will not need to be watered often, while the soil will be quite wet. And one more advantage of mulch - it protects from changes in temperature day and night.
Approximately at the end of July on the central stem a flower umbrella is formed, in which the seeds will be kept. Wait until the umbrella discards color, darkens and curls into a cam. It's time to harvest the seeds. It is necessary to cut the umbrella along with the stalk and put it in a shaded place.
The seeds themselves are an oblong grain with a margin. Hairs of the edge need to be removed, but it is preferable to do this manually, and not through a metal sieve. The grid will damage the seeds. Prepared seeds are ready for sowing. You can sow in the same autumn ( podzimny sowing ), then the carrot will ripen by the middle of June, and you can leave the seeds until spring and sow in May.