Carrot Seeds

peapod · « **Reply #15 on:** June 24, 2009, 23:45 »

Keep all sown seeds well watered,including direct sown. Once they show their happy well established face then water only when needed. Especially carrots and snips. If theres been no rain for a week then give them a huge soaking (to prevent them splitting) but otherwise let them do their thing and find it (and so resulting in bigger/stronger roots)

Paul Plots · « **Reply #16 on:** June 25, 2009, 00:02 »

Quote from: peapod on June 24, 2009, 23:45

Keep all sown seeds well watered,including direct sown. Once they show their happy well established face then water only when needed. Especially carrots and snips. If theres been no rain for a week then give them a huge soaking (to prevent them splitting) but otherwise let them do their thing and find it (and so resulting in bigger/stronger roots)

Good advice I reckon

nemie · « **Reply #17 on:** June 25, 2009, 00:10 »

Quote from: Riala on June 24, 2009, 08:17

500??

I put 3 in one pot.... is your pot an old bath tub?

I used a 5 gallon food tub that was once used to bring garlic to UK, i just cut some of the side off it to make a food grade type pot, i also have a fig tree growing in one.

Kristen · « **Reply #18 on:** June 25, 2009, 14:31 »

"If theres been no rain for a week then give them a huge soaking "

What about containers?

Do you think there is any mileage in standing them in a tray of water (and for how long?) so that the moisture is at the bottom and the stretch down for it?

peapod · « **Reply #19 on:** June 25, 2009, 15:33 »

Id do that for containers too Kristen, keeping an eye until the water soaked the compost once a week,then pour the excess away

Jay Dubya · « **Reply #20 on:** June 25, 2009, 20:22 »

Hi, be warned Norfolk Turkey it's not normally done to prick out carrots you may not be successful they are normally sowed straight into the ground.

The Norfolk Turkey · « **Reply #21 on:** June 25, 2009, 20:33 »

Quote from: Jay Dubya on June 25, 2009, 20:22

Hi, be warned Norfolk Turkey it's not normally done to prick out carrots you may not be successful they are normally sowed straight into the ground.

Yeah - I know that now!! Three months into GYO and Im learning pretty fast! I may have forked them up

KT · « **Reply #22 on:** June 25, 2009, 20:35 »

Speaking of carrot's i have several pots full of nice bushy growth, unfortunalty i think i planted them all to close together, how far apart do they need thining to? Ive been trying to thin them as they grow but it's got that bushy it's really hard to tell where on carrot start's and another begin's haha.

gillie · « **Reply #23 on:** June 25, 2009, 21:05 »

"how far apart do they need thining to?"

I thin mine to at least one inch apart fairly soon after germination. Thereafter they are thinned by pulling the most advanced ones for the pot.

If you leave them too close together you are liable to get a lot of fern and not much root.

Cheers,

Gillie

Paul Plots · « **Reply #24 on:** June 26, 2009, 01:28 »

I only "thin them out" as I pull them to eat them!

That way you don't waste any and you harvest a good number of small, tasty little carrots early on leaving the rest to develop into larger carrots for later in the season.

Take care to thin out when it is not too hot and carrot fly are snoozing!

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