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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: chris1976 on March 16, 2006, 12:19

Title: carrots
Post by: chris1976 on March 16, 2006, 12:19

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planning to put carrots in this year and i was told that they needed snady soil. If this is the case i was going to plant them seperate in an old bath tub i have. Good or bad idea, please give feed back as i want them to grow
Cheers
chris1976

Title: carrots
Post by: Heather_S on March 16, 2006, 12:28

I've grown ball-shaped carrots in multipurpose compost so I don't think that carrots need sandy soil. What sort of soil do you have otherwise? They do need something fairly loose and rich in organic matter but not freshly manured.