Soil for peas and carrots: need advice

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oldcow

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Soil for peas and carrots: need advice
« on: April 11, 2010, 11:38 »
I read on a vegetable growing book that having manure in the soil where peas and carrots grow is a problem (low yield for the first one, forking for the second one).
I have some raised beds filled with a mix of one third vermiculite, one third peat/coir, and one third mixed compost (roughly equal parts of wool compost, vermicast, green compost and composted horse manure). The composted horse manure is a small percentage of the mix, will it still cause problems or should I have a separate box with a different mix for these two crops?

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Re: Soil for peas and carrots: need advice
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2010, 11:42 »
NOt sure about pea's but I do know that you shouldn't manure your soil for carrots.  This could be whats causing your forking.  Also stones etc can cause forking.

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Re: Soil for peas and carrots: need advice
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2010, 12:07 »
First year growing, so no forking yet, just trying to prevent it  :)
So you think that even that small amount of composted manure will be a problem?

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Re: Soil for peas and carrots: need advice
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2010, 12:58 »
Both peas and carrots will be fine on a soil manured for a previous crop i.e. last season.
Carrots, in particular fork in stoney soil as do parsnips so fork and rake to fine tilth before sowing.


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