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The Show => Veggie Show => Topic started by: shirlton on August 22, 2011, 11:43:19
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We harvested these carrots this morning form an 8ft bed with 4 rows. The variety is Lisse de Meaux from real seeds. We made 10" wide. 10"deep trenches and filled them with old used potting compost. I really needed something good to happen today
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What a superb crop. Will be interested in how tasty you find them :)
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We grow them every year .We had a harvest like this about 4 years ago and now we have this one
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Wow! Makes my dozen or so matchsticks seem totally pathetic, & I was so proud of them.
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We grow them every year .We had a harvest like this about 4 years ago and now we have this one
I'll add to my list. Do they store well?
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How are you going to store them all?? Or do you have some other plans for them..
They look great BTW!!!
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jealous!!!! my carrots havent done that well this year. but I might well take on your tip of diggin out a trench and filling it with compost
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They look lovely Shirl, what are you going to do with them now?
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They look brilliant Shirl
x Anne
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Do they store well?................Yes
How are you going to store them all??............ We have spent the rest of the morning layering them in sand all bar the ones we are having for dinner and tea ;D They are stored in the shed
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I have carrot envy! :) I never seem to grow even half decent ones but I keep trying.
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How much of the tops do you take off?
Is your shed a brick or wood shed?
What sort of sand? builders or childrens play sand.
Hi Shirl, sorry about so many Q. Just thought play sand as there won't be anything harmful in that.
Regards Taurus
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How much of the tops do you take off?.................................................. All but 1"
Is your shed a brick or wood shed?..........................................................wood
What sort of sand? builders or childrens play sand.....................................moist sharp sand
Hi Shirl, sorry about so many Q. Just thought play sand as there won't be anything harmful in that.
Regards Taurus
Hope it helps. Please position your box in the place where you are going to store it.One year we filled it up by the house and we could'nt lift it to take it down to the shed ;D
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What is the advantage of putting them in sand rather than leaving them in the ground and digging up as required?
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We have some Autumn King planted at our other plot that we will dig over winter. We shall most likely be putting a load on the sharing chair after having such a good harvest of the Lisse De
Meaux
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I've had a pretty good year but not as good as yours well done Tone. ;) :-*
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;D
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What a wonderful crop - so envious :) Had to do 4 sowings with minimal germination (or maybe slugs) and still hardly anything to show for it - must try harder next year. I suppose keeping in sand rather than ground stops bugs eating them.
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Every single one of our carrots had carrot fly damage!!! Does anyone know if the 'carrotfly resistant' carrot seeds really 'work'?
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Every single one of our carrots had carrot fly damage!!! Does anyone know if the 'carrotfly resistant' carrot seeds really 'work'?
They do work to a degree but I have said for a few years that the only way to stop carrot fly damage altogether is to erect a barrier.
I have tried resistafly and also growing them off the ground in large barrels. The large barrel method works well but does not get rid of them completeley.
I find that covering with Envorofleece is the only sure fire method for clean carrots
HTH
Pete
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I rather regret not lifting mine when I first saw this thread. At the time I had very little fly problems, since then there has been devastation.
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I've managed to grow carrots decently for the first time this year, all of them were started off in modules, either in 24-cell trays with a toilet roll tube shoved in the the top or (when it wasn't needed by other things) in my one precious set of root-trainers. Varieties have been Early Nantes 5, Chantenay red-cored, Eskimo and Autumn King. All but the Autumn King were grown in large pots, the AK is in th eground. Almost finished the Chantenays, the Natnes were finished a while ago, then it will be the AK's and finally the Eskimo, which hav ehte option of moving down into the greenhouse if the weatehr looks manky.... Will probably start some forcers (ROndo or Amsterdam or whatever) in heat in the GH in a couple of months time....
Found some fly damage on one of the Chantenays last night, there's one more pot of them left to go, the Nantes were clean, the Eskimo and AK thinnings have been clean too...
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I live in a rampant cow parsley area with all the carrot fly problems that entails. I use flyaway or resistafly seed. Plant in June to miss the early batch of fly, [early carrots in bucket in poly],cover carefully with mesh and now have a lovely crop with carrots well over 8 ins long [ must try to take photo and learn how to get it on line..] Have now taken mesh off and hope the mild weather hasn't allowed a super late hatching. I intend to leave them in the ground unless the local rodents start getting their teeth in. Then I'll be off for a bag of sharp sand... ::)