Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => The Show Bench => Topic started by: staffybtuk on September 08, 2014, 08:58
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i like doing new things, i seen these silly huge carrot with silly amount of legs, can tell me the soil mix for these carrots please i love to give it ago.
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If you want big carrots sow them about the end of March and thin them out to about 4 inches as soon as they are established. Then just leave them to it.
If you want straight carrots you will need light soil.
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i found a recipe for the soil but they don't say how much of what to grown a giant carrot understandable they don't want tell everyone their secret
compost, vermiculite, perlite, Rootgrow, Vitax Q4, Calcified seaweed, carboante of lime, sulphate of potash, magnesium and superphosphate.
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Long'uns are normally grown in a barrel or similar, filled with sand and then a "core" hole made and filled with fine compost, 3 seeds per core sown and then thinned to the "best one".
Like this:
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Here's his soil recipe (looks like the one you already have):
http://www.allotment-diary.co.uk/Exhibition-long-show-carrot.html
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Long'uns are normally grown in a barrel or similar, filled with sand and then a "core" hole made and filled with fine compost, 3 seeds per core sown and then thinned to the "best one".
Like this:
9WRXfTz0BiY
Here's his soil recipe (looks like the one you already have):
http://www.allotment-diary.co.uk/Exhibition-long-show-carrot.html
i done the long ones i'm looking to grow a one for the weigh
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Presumably, if you're growing it for weight, you'd want it as long as possible and as fat as possible. So you'd use pretty much the same approach but give the carrot much more room widthwise.
Surely your biggest challenge is finding the right variety that will grow as fat as you seem to need?
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Try a variety called Flakkee. ;) dig a hole a foot or more wide, two foot deep.
The hole needs to be filled with a "special" mixture. vermiculite, perlite, Rootgrow, Vitax Q4, Calcified seaweed, carboante of lime, sulphate of potash, magnesium and superphosphate.
Totty