This year’s carrot harvest: a story of hope, vicious foes, resilience and success
This year’s carrot harvest: a story of hope, vicious foes, resilience and success
by boiled_leeks
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boiled_leeks
A few more details for those curious: I live in the UK. First batch of plants were Flyaway (an F1 hybrid resistant to carrot fly) and a pack of mixed rainbow carrot seeds. The second batch was just Flyaway. Carrots were growing in clay soil with 2 inches of compost on top. No sand added, although the soil was dug up with a fork before planting to remove couch grass and bindweed roots. Dressed with chicken manure pellets twice, and fed liquid seaweed every week. My original plan was to leave the July-planted carrots in the ground until November at the earliest, but I had to harvest them because they were getting eaten by woodlice (pill bugs).
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A few more details for those curious: I live in the UK. First batch of plants were Flyaway (an F1 hybrid resistant to carrot fly) and a pack of mixed rainbow carrot seeds. The second batch was just Flyaway. Carrots were growing in clay soil with 2 inches of compost on top. No sand added, although the soil was dug up with a fork before planting to remove couch grass and bindweed roots. Dressed with chicken manure pellets twice, and fed liquid seaweed every week. My original plan was to leave the July-planted carrots in the ground until November at the earliest, but I had to harvest them because they were getting eaten by woodlice (pill bugs).