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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: vegmandan on November 19, 2008, 21:52

Title: Autumn King and Carrot fly
Post by: vegmandan on November 19, 2008, 21:52

I remember reading somewhere that Autumn King is a good variety to grow if you want to leave your carrots in the ground longer as they never split ,and they have a fair bit of resistance to Carrot fly as well.

As I have grown Early Nantes for years which are really great early on but do tend to split badly once they get bigger I'm going to try Autumn King for a change.

Has anyone any experience as to their non splitting properties and also the apparent resistance,however slight, to the fly ?

Oh...and do they taste any good ? :lol:

Cheers. :D

Title: Autumn King and Carrot fly
Post by: clive f on November 19, 2008, 22:15

hi vegmandan i've grown autumn king this year and had no problem splitting, got a little bit of fly on them as for taste very good

Title: Autumn King and Carrot fly
Post by: Bombers on November 19, 2008, 22:25

Quote from: "clive f"

hi vegmandan i've grown autumn king this year and had no problem splitting, got a little bit of fly on them as for taste very good

Same here Dan, no splitting, but did get minimal fly damage.

Title: Autumn King and Carrot fly
Post by: DD. on November 19, 2008, 22:39

Grow them every year & let them sit in the ground all winter.

No flies - but I've got a polythene fence around them.

Title: Autumn King and Carrot fly
Post by: penance on November 20, 2008, 08:15

Some of mine have split this year.

Title: Autumn King and Carrot fly
Post by: AndyRVTR on November 20, 2008, 09:17

No problems with splitting in the past that I can remember, the taste is good too...

Title: Autumn King and Carrot fly
Post by: milkman on November 20, 2008, 09:46

I've grown Chantenay carrots this year, they've been excellent.

I'll leave them in the ground over winter and just dig them as required.  

If it starts getting really cold I'll get round to covering them in straw.

I grow my carrots (and parsnips) under viromesh - ravaging carrot flies are but a distant memory for me.

Title: Autumn King and Carrot fly
Post by: vegmandan on November 21, 2008, 00:14

Cheers for that.

I'll give 'em a go next year. :)

Title: Autumn King and Carrot fly
Post by: cawdor2001 on November 21, 2008, 19:29

will the real frost weather burn the tops of the carrots off? as i have some in but the roots (bit yu eat) are not big enough so i was hoping come the Spring they would start to grow away again, what do you think

Title: Autumn King and Carrot fly
Post by: DD. on November 21, 2008, 19:34

The foliage may get pegged back a bit, but the main problem is that come the spring, they will start naturally running to seed & go woody regardless of size. Don't expect to see bigger carrots!

Title: Autumn King and Carrot fly
Post by: cawdor2001 on November 21, 2008, 20:07

bum! never mind, thanks for the knowledge DD


cawdor