I actually have 25g of them on order from Moles seeds.
This is the smallest amount I could order and will be upwards of 20,000 seed. (Still only cost a couple of squid).
I'll be only too pleased to send you some when they arrive as this amount will obviously do me for a few years!
Per Moles website:
A well established maincrop variety, with good storage ability. The long tapered roots have strong tops and good texture. Popular for showing. Sow March- August, harvest June-October.
Thanks again DD. I have just looked up the Moles seeds website, had never heard of them before, and added it to my 'favourites' list. Very useful site to know about.
I'm having a go this year at winning the best carrots in the local show but using my usual variety which is early nantes2.
I've dug a deep trench and filling it with sifted mole hill soil and sand. I try and collect a bucketful each day. Its taking for ever so I might shorten the trench I hope it will give me nice long and clean carrots.
How are you going to grow yours?
Apart from those we plant in the raised beds we also put some in a number of 2ft high tubs we have.
I was told that carrots are not great lovers of being grown in just standard commercial compost, don't know if thats true or not, so in the tubs we mix sieved topsoil with gritty sand and well broken down sieved compost off one of our own heaps.
In roughly a ratio of 40% topsoil, 40% home made compost and 20% gritty sand
For edible crop purposes it seems to work quite well, only time I made a faux pas was when I tried to grow some carrots around the base of some tomatoes in the tubs, having forgotten that I had dumped a good helping of well rotted manure in the tubs before I had planted up the Toms.
Carrots came out in some quite interesting shapes.
We dont have a mole problem in the immediate area, I have a feeling the land owner where we walk the dogs might take objection if I start nicking the soil from the thousands of mole hills in his/her field. Nice fine soil though and I would imagine useful if you can get it.