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Hello. My Gardenate reminder suggests I sow carrots outside in Feb. I have a good veg patch but very mediocre success with carrots in the past (is that an oxymoron?) - is there any real chance of success sowing this early? Thanks.
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RHS says early varieties under cloches.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-y...tables/carrots
I've sown at the end of February in pots in the greenhouse, in the past - results weren't too bad IIRC -
I think my carrots do much better if I am patient and wait to sow them until the soil is warm ...
... but my packet of Amsterdam Forcing sowing calendar starts at Feb.
I've been meaning to try some in a pot, this early, for some years. I'd better have a go otherwise another year will tick by ...K's Garden blog the story of the creation of our gardenComment
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I always sow some early ones at the end of Feb in the polytunnel border and they do really well. Far too cold outside for ages yet though.
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I always sow last years leftover carrot seed in February.
All wisdom says that carrot seed doesn't last and we should buy new in each year. Well, okay, but I always have seed left. So I direct sow it with no protection. Originally I figured this was a form of throwing away the seed and was surprised at the good crop I got.
Now I do it every year.
Germination is indeed patchy and erratic, takes ages too. But I sow them on this years 'scrubby' patch and pay them no mind and I always, always end up with a free crop from them.Comment
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I like that idea! I hate throwing "brand new" things away, so I wind up with packets of Carrot seed, years old, gathering dust!!K's Garden blog the story of the creation of our gardenComment
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Last year I planted mine in toilet roll tubes in then into pots too. Then when it got a bit warmer off they went outside. They did ever so well (first time growing them) why I did it this way I don't know. They were nice and straight too and I wondered if the carrot flies couldn't get to them as they were protected. I'm going to do it again this year as it worked!
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This is a test reply as I've had trouble posting this morning.Is there anything that isn't made better by half an hour pottering in the veg patch?Comment
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Oh hurray! I tried three times to post earlier and kept getting some guff about tokens expiring.
Aaanyway, was saying that I like the sow, forget and take your chances approach. I have no greenhouse and no cloches so everything has to take its chances. After last year's fungus gnat explosion in the house I'm not going to start anything off indoors. I might get a blowaway and set it in concrete or something
Is there anything that isn't made better by half an hour pottering in the veg patch?Comment
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