Carrot "Cidera"

Carrot "Cidera".
A high yielding late variety of Nantes type which is intended primarily for juice making and for preserving. The root is 21 - 23 cm long, has a long oval shape and very good colour. The whole head of the root is in the ground and does not turn green. It is suitable for mechanical harvesting and growing in beds. Sow from the spring until the end of May. The growing time from sowing to harvest is 145 - 155 days.

* Use fresh seeds to sow carrots, as they retain good germination for no more than two years. Therefore, there is no point in storing seeds in large quantities.
Before sowing, prepare the seeds. Since they germinate very slowly, do this in advance.
There are several ways to prepare seeds for sowing:
Method 1. Carefully pour all the seeds into a plate and pour water into it. Stir them lightly with your fingers. Remove the seeds that float to the surface (for some reason they turned out to be empty, so they are not suitable for sowing). Wrap the remaining carrot seeds in gauze and immerse them overnight in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. This must be done to disinfect them. In the morning, remove the seeds from the solution and lightly squeeze the gauze. Take a shallow plate and pour a little warm water into it so that it covers the bottom. Place the bundle of seeds on this plate and place it closer to the radiator or heater. In this case, they will germinate much faster. The sprouted seeds are ready to be sown in the ground. 
Method 2. A few days before sowing, prepare a nutrient coating for the seeds. To do this, mix the soil-nutrient mixture, consisting of equal proportions of peat and humus, with a glass of liquid mullein. Pour the seeds into the jar and, shaking it, gradually add the resulting mixture. Shake the jar for a minute. During this time, the seeds will be covered with a nutrient coating. Then pour them out on paper and dry. When the seeds dry out, they will be completely ready for sowing in the ground.
Method 3. Prepare salted water at the rate of 2 tablespoons of salt per 1 liter of water. Pour the seeds into this water. You can safely throw away the floating seeds, as they will not sprout. And carefully place the seeds that have settled to the bottom in a gauze bag and tie it. Rinse the seeds directly through the gauze under a stream of warm water. After this, immerse the bag with seeds first in hot water for 10-15 minutes, and then for the same time in cold water. After such hardening, untie the bag and scatter the seeds in a thin layer on a damp cloth. Cover and leave on the table at room temperature for about a day. After germination, the seeds are ready to be sown in the ground. 
Method 4. To get shoots already on the 4-5th day after sowing, use this method. Perhaps some will find it too simple, but, as you know, everything ingenious is simple! Place the dry carrot seeds in a cloth bag and bury them in the area to the depth of a shovel blade, directly into the damp and cold soil. (Leave some kind of mark at this place, so that later the search for seeds does not turn into the work of digging up the entire area...)
When you decide to sow the seeds, simply dig them up, lay them out on a dry cloth and dry them in the fresh air. After that, sow the seeds in the usual way.