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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: m1ckz on March 16, 2017, 20:20

Title: carrot
Post by: m1ckz on March 16, 2017, 20:20

what fertilizer should i usr growing carrots please

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Post by: oldgrunge on March 16, 2017, 20:57

None. Carrots don't require much fertiliser, if you feed them they are liable to fork. Best to grow them in ground that had been fertilised for a previous crop.

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Post by: Salmo on March 17, 2017, 08:19

I give them a dressing of growmore. Chicken pellets have too much nitrogen.

If you give them too much this happens.

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Post by: arh on March 17, 2017, 08:25

Salmo, there's no answer to that, lol

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Post by: stompy on March 20, 2017, 08:32

I grow carrots in a 70/30 compost/builders sand mix, just mix it and put it through a gardeners seive.
I then push my spade into the ground a full spit and waggle it backwards and forwards to create a V and continue to do this the width of where i'm going to grow them, then fill this trench/V with the 70/30 mix and sow in the middle and top off with a dusting of the mix and water.
Then place canes around the growing area in the corners and middle and run fleece round the canes to create a fence about 1mtr high to stop the carrot fly.
This never (almost never, nothing is guaranteed) fails me and i get very few forked carrots if any at all in some rows, just great carrots.

Andy

Title: Re: carrot
Post by: Mum2mj on March 20, 2017, 12:45

Quote from: Salmo on March 17, 2017, 08:19

I give them a dressing of growmore. Chicken pellets have too much nitrogen.

If you give them too much this happens.

lOVE this carrot 😂😂

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Post by: I Love Spuds on March 20, 2017, 13:36

That carrot pic is brilliant. I now have it as my avatar  :D hope you don't mind  :ohmy:

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Post by: aelf on March 21, 2017, 11:13

I grow mine in last year's waste compost with a little fruit n veg fertiliser mixed in. Works ok

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Post by: p6t6 on March 23, 2017, 12:13

That Carrot is hilarious :D

I don't add any fertilizer and they do well.