[boosmummy]

I was going to plant my carrots in the next few weeks but someone said not to because they dont like transportation.

I was wondering, I saw something on a tv programme that said plant carrots seeds in toilet rolls  :blink: obviously with compost then they can be planted now and transported later planted straight into the soil and then the cardboard just breaks down, does this sound like a good idea that i could do this week?

xx

[mumofstig]

IMO Root veg in general don't tend to do well with transplanting, and I think you're still at least a couple of weeks too early, anyway.

[DD.]

I assume one carrot per tube. You'd need a heck of a lot for one row.

Wait until April, stick them straight in!

[Totty]

Your right, carrots and parsnips hate being transplanted. By sowing them in toilet rolls now, and planting the tubes out before the root gets to the bottom, you wont be transplanting them as such and planting them in this way is a great tip.  I only tend to do it with parsnips though, as like DD mentions, you will need loads of tubes for a row of carrots.

Totty

[DD.]

The Autumn King I'm currently harvesting are crackers, they weren't sown until 20th May, so you may like to consider holding off for a while with the "main crop" carrots, but sowing some of an early variety errrrr - earlier.

[TheSpartacat]

Honetly, it sounds like an awful lot of faff, and toilet rolls, and cost of compost, to be harvested not much sooner than the ones sown outdoors later in the year. And if the weather is poor and their roots overshoot the pot before you can plant out, they won't do so well and fork.

To answer your question as to whether it sounds like a good idea, it really depends on your reasoning for doing it? If its because it will satisfy an itch to sow something and get stuck into the growing season, then sure... why not? But if it's to get vastly better or quicker results, then maybe not?