My first year at my lottie I had brilliant carrots, and my first year on my extra bit the carrots were wonderful, but the last two years I have had very poor carrots. What am I doing wrong?
I know I made a mistake of sowing carrots where I had had rye as a green manure. The effects of the rye to suppress germination of rival plants seems to last quite a time. And the deer/voles have not helped.
Can I put carrots after potatoes, the soil is in really good condition where the potatoes come out?
Ours were great this year, we took out a narrow trench, filled it with potting compost and sowed into it. Fed them weekly when they were baby carrots with diluted seaweed feed and thinned and watered while it was dry. Ours are covered from sowing with fleece :happy7: . So endeth the first lesson :toothy10: :toothy10:
We pulled a few carrots this year which were from my inner elbow to the ends of my fingers, I have NEVER had carrots like that before.
XX Jeannine
Quote from: manicscousers on October 01, 2013, 08:49:01
Ours were great this year, we took out a narrow trench, filled it with potting compost and sowed into it.
This is a great technique especially on clay - and the best thing of all is that it doesn't matter how narrow the trench is - you can just wiggle a spade in the ground and fill the slit with sharp sand (wash it in to be sure) and it works just as well.
If you are as lazy as me you don't even need to break the soil first - though I'd recommend skimming at least one cm. off to remove the weed seeds.
Cheers.