How many?

[pigletwillie]

Without resorting to google or any other search engines, magazines or catalogues, have a guess how many seeds per acre are recommended be sown for Chantennay carrots to get the optimum yield.

My seed packet contains a couple of hundred I suppose so will not go very far at all

I will post the answer later, but one thing is for sure, we really get ripped of when buying seed.

[shirlthegirl43]

I should imagine many thousand. Never seen a field of carrots growing - must be quite a sight

[nkp1962]

Rip off - Probably, but bear in mind the packaging, marketing, distribution, etc. costs for a £1 packet of seeds, against a bag full of seeds (about 25000?) for an acre!

[Peter]

A million?

[Hans Mum]

i;d guess 100,000 but no idea really......like shirl never seen a field of carrots where do they grow them? & what do they do about the dreaded carrot fly?

[kernowyon]

an acre is a big bit of land, so I will guess 5 million. standing by to be proved an idiot

[nkp1962]

Rip off - Probably, but bear in mind the packaging, marketing, distribution, etc. costs for a £1 packet of seeds, against a bag full of seeds (about 25000?) for an acre!

Wish I could type (& count) -

about 2500000 (2 & a half million) - It's a guess!!

[Alice]

Who wants to grow an acre of carrots ??? Maybe it's time for seed companies to get real and sell in quantities suitable for real people.

[Peter]

i...never seen a field of carrots where do they grow them? ....

Norfolk.

Irrigated fields, in long beds spaced for machinery.

Got stuck behind a tractor towing a trailerload once for about ten miles, all the way past Mildenhall.

[pigletwillie]

Its for Farmers Alice, not us types of peeps,

[Hans Mum]

Norfolk.

Got stuck behind a tractor towing a trailerload once for about ten miles, all the way past Mildenhall.

not that you swore silently as you counted every mile

[Peter]

not that you swore silently as you counted every mile

No, but the people behind us and our caravan probably did.

[Nicos]

Phew.....10 million???? ...bound to be more- an acre is a lot of land!!!

I can imagine a one hundredweight bag might do it- how many seeds in that????

[pigletwillie]

Actually its

3,500,000

[nkp1962]

well at least I was close (after the typo!)