Alternative to sand for growing show carrots?

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Re: Alternative to sand for growing show carrots?
« Reply #15 on: January 22, 2012, 00:26 »
The BULK medium for growing carrots and parsnips for show is SAND and is used as base to be compact enough to bore the growing tube to fill with a blend or compost and fertilizers and additives.

The sand with retain moisture  the BEST sand is quarried sand some use builders sand but it has to be washed as it contains exessive salts reducing the growing affects in the compost channels.

An alternitive medium would be recycled crushed glass as used by comercial landscapers to bed down pavers but expensive unless you have a local supplier..

The growing setup / technique is slightly different between differnet growers some prefer to grow in tubes others use 205 litre plastic barrells filled with sand then bore out 3inch tubes with plastic downpipe..
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« Last Edit: February 10, 2012, 17:03 by allotment south wales »
keep it organic and you will see the difference including taste......

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Re: Alternative to sand for growing show carrots?
« Reply #16 on: February 15, 2012, 21:32 »
I use sharp sand as do many others

I didn't wash my sand at all but did give a good soak to help settle it. Carrots are supposed to like salt so I'm not really sure if it does any harm or good to be honest

All I know is that I did ok with my method last year, be it luck or not


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Re: Alternative to sand for growing show carrots?
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2012, 21:48 »
May I commend you two on your modesty and I hope us mere mortals can achieve anything like as good.  :tongue2:
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Re: Alternative to sand for growing show carrots?
« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2012, 17:45 »
I just grow in Levington's F2S with added calcified seaweed



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