Sowed some carrots last couple of days of July and started eating some of the thinnings today. They were about the size of my little finger.
Gorgeous - the taste of spring in the Autumn.
and we would be interested in this because
It might encourage people to sow carrot seeds next July and have the taste of spring in autumn.
Simple really ;D ;D
My post was also by way of a thank you to those who had encouraged me to sow a late crop of carrots. On this forum we like to post successes and share other people's successes and problems.
ours are just about ready to eat the thinnings,digeroo..the ones the slugs ain't eaten,anyway
Quote from: plainleaf2 on October 10, 2009, 18:00:00
and we would be interested in this because
that was a tad rude dontya think????
thats very interesting digeroo,can you remind us all to do the same next july please? ;)
Elvis don't be surprised as Plainleaf2 is TheGreatGardener who I'm sure that you're well aware of from the past!
it must be the onset of winter, as the tw*t is back!!
Quote from: Digeroo on October 10, 2009, 16:56:11
Gorgeous - the taste of spring in the Autumn.
It's great getting a taste of something out of season, isn't it? Note to self: get late carrots in the diary for next year.
what an obnoxious comment to make just because someone is enjoying the fruits of their labour and wants to share their enjoyment with the rest of us
Thought we had a lurker in our midst.
Many thanks for your support folks. I think it is best to ignore such remarks. I think someone is a bit bored.
Many people on our site dug up their early potatoes and left the space empty and I am so delighted to have squeezed in an extra crop.
well done digeroo, catch-crop is the term for using a quick maturing crop after an early crop. well worth it, eh? ;)
QuotePlainleaf2 is TheGreatGardener
Haven't you heard the news? Everyone in Sheistertown lost all their tomato's to blight and now the younger generation from that neighbourhood is jealous of the huge barrowloads of tomatoes being harvested over here. Even a humble carrot shows the sad chap his own inadequacies.
Quote from: Eristic on October 10, 2009, 21:42:51
QuotePlainleaf2 is TheGreatGardener
Haven't you heard the news? Everyone in Sheistertown lost all their tomato's to blight and now the younger generation from that neighbourhood is jealous of the huge barrowloads of tomatoes being harvested over here. Even a humble carrot shows the sad chap his own inadequacies.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
did I just hear the first cuckoo of Winter?
we also have carrots just ready. Very nice too. Though a little small
Dragging this thread back to carrots (the rest is incomprehensible, I've only been here a few months), my late sown row barely germinated - I've got three baby carrots from a ten-foot row. Salad crops sown the same day all grew fine - is there a pest that would have taken the carrots? The row was netted against pigeons.
Slugs love a nice juicy carrot seedling, I get hardly any carrots left in my garden. Luckily still very few slugs on the allotment.
Grannyjanny gave me a great tip putting slug pellets in a plastic box with a small hole in it. Slugs crawl in and then die and don't come out again, so the pellets do not get on the soil and hedgehogs etc do not eat the poisoned slugs or pellets.
My daughter bought me a Starbucks iced coffee and the empty container proved great for this job. But a yogurt pot with a lid works just as well.
Bit of a grotty job cleaning out the pot :'( :'(
what a brilliant tip digeroo,thanks for sharing that one.funny it seems so obvious now,yet id never thought of it!
try using a margarine tub with a hole cut out at either end and turned upside down filled with slug pellets i find that works well
Hi Digeroo, ain't it great to still have carrots on the go.
GG where have you been for the last 6 months.
I will have check my law books and see what you get 6 months for.
:o ;D ;D ;D
well guess I better help some of you out because your stepping in it again. There is simple reason I ask why should we be interested in his post is because he gave so little real info about his garden.
cornykev for last six months i was working on my book,my garden and gardening software package.
Could you take another 6 months to get them finished? :-X
Quote from: plainleaf2 on October 11, 2009, 14:07:33
cornykev for last six months i was working on my book,my garden and gardening software package.
I've tried to see things from your point of view, but couldn't fit my head up your ars*hole too!! ( goldie looking chain, 2003)
I look forward to reading your book GG, will I get a free copy and whats it about, I hope it's a mystery, I do like a good mystery. ??? ;D ;D ;D
talking of carrots, i was digging the plot today (for the first time its a new plot) and dug up 3 carrots :) they must've been in there for ages cos the plot's been empty about a year!
We always get a good harvest from our Autumn King when sown a bit later. Thanks for the info Digeroo. Nice to be able to share our successes with each other
I'd never thought of hiding slug pellets like that, I do indeed have huge slug problems but have tried to avoid pellets because we have resident hedgehogs. Must try this idea though, thanks, but I still wonder how the lettuce and rocket got away with it.
as my grandmother said it is sure sign that your right about something when someone insults you.
cornykev you will have pay extra for copy do to the fact you an other don't know how behave properly
But at least we have a basic understanding of the English language.
Quote from: Eristic on October 12, 2009, 07:37:16
But at least we have a basic understanding of the English language.
it helps, eristic!! ;D ;D ;D
GG as I said in my PM, I have stuck up for you in the past and think I deserve a FREE signed copy, mind you I don't want all the names you've used on here signed or it may take up a few pages. ;)
Even though you said in your PM to me about not understanding your book, I will give it a go, even if its not written in the Queens English. ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: cornykev on October 11, 2009, 17:16:26
I look forward to reading your book GG, will I get a free copy and whats it about, I hope it's a mystery, I do like a good mystery. ??? ;D ;D ;D
Is it 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' vol2?
getting back to carrots, the early nantes I sowed last month in a container in the poly are all showing now :)
I find this thread strange. Why are your carrots only baby?
Only, I sowed D'Eysines Carrots in the first week of August last year and was cropping proper full sized ones early October and it was a lousy summer.
And this year I sowed Lisse de Meaux in mid-July and have eaten most of them already - again big, not as long as ones sown in Spring but 5 or 6 inches long and a hefty stew size.
Is it down to the different types we're sowing or what?
I sowed d'eyssines carrots early August and they are barely showing. I've got them in a mini fleece tunnel now. Could be slugs of course. Also latitude?
Quote from: Digeroo on October 10, 2009, 16:56:11
Sowed some carrots last couple of days of July and started eating some of the thinnings today. They were about the size of my little finger.
Gorgeous - the taste of spring in the Autumn.
Digeroo ... just love your enthusiastic sharing ... that's what gardening is all about ... keep them comming !!
... p,s, my august sown carrots are also tiny :-\... but I have a lovley row of LoveinaMist (confusing blue flowers for carrot fly) ::) ;D
Just had the nursery kids round... we dug up some veg including a yellowstone carrot about 1' long... :)
I always sow carrots in July/August - picked some today, lovely - grown in a container (actually an old beehive super)
a great anagram of plain leaf is alien flap - quite suitable ;D
It has been very dry here. Rained the first week in August and then almost nothing for two months. So maybe the carrots been a bit slow. I will try more varieties next year.