Carrots

Carrots require a suitable balance of several nutrients including boron, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur and zinc. Deficiencies in any one of these can cause a range of disorders or limit your yields. Our programme of smart liquid fertilisers can help your carrots get the nutrients they need at each stage of the growth cycle.

Carrots

Ensuring proper nutrition for carrots

Carrots that are lacking boron can grow split roots with dark central cores and can cause chlorisis, which can also be caused by a shortage of magnesium, copper, iron, manganese or sulphur. An inadequate supply of boron can also cause chlorisis as well as growth retardation with reduced germination and seedling growth. A lack of calcium leads to problems including necrosis, the collapse and shrivelling of upper leaves and it can severely reduce root sizes. Root and plant sizes can also be stunted due to a lack of nitrogen or phosphorus, while a potassium deficiency can lead to discolouration and interveinal chlorosis.

With foliar applications of NHCaDelta, NHK Delta, 1-4-All and CalFlux at the stages of the growing cycle set out below, Bionature’s smart liquid fertilisers can give your carrot crops the nutrients they need to grow healthily, with improved yields.

Carrots

Benefits

Growth habit improvement
Protection vs stress
Higher productive potential
Less NO3 residues
Less ground water residues
Improved growth in saline conditions
Higher weight/root
Fewer calcium related disorders
Less internal browning
Increased firmness
Higher dry matter
More size uniformity
Better post harvest condition
Frost protection

“Last year I grew Nelson winter wheat for a seed contract on a split field trial. It was drilled late on drought-prone land. It yielded 7.5 t/ha, which was 1.5t/ha higher than the standard programme without Cope Nutrition Plus.”

“We started using the nutrition programme just over six years ago,” he says. “We now use it across the whole of our 2000 hectare farm, covering winter wheat, winter barley, spring barley, record breaking Merlin spring oats, and spring beans.”