The Carrot Challenge - Grow carrots with me in 2016!!

[Gillykat]

Cant think of a better day to start anything tbh Gillycat

At first I thought ''Noooo I just like things to be nicely rounded and organised and 1st March sounds better than 27th or whatever of February'' *I know...I'm strange* but then I realised what you meant

Should I be starting leeks that day too?

[bramble]

Sowed a large pot of carrots this evening.
Variety, Flyaway.

[jonny the plant pot]

The 6 varieties I've sowed so far are purple haze atomic red cazo f1 red heart autum king and nantes .
Got to edge your bets

[gardenatnumber60]

I love this idea, I'm hoping to pick up some compost this weekend so will have a go at planting my first "bucket" just hope they germinate as its blo*dy cold here!

[veggiechicken]

Welcome to the home of nutty ideas, GNo60

[donnakebab]

I've never grown carrots as I've always been put off by the whole carrot fly thing. However, I have a packet of Chantenay Royal, Autumn King 2 and a heritage Beta 111. The Chantenay looks short so probably good in pots and says to sow from March to May where as Autumn King can be sewn till July. I'll have to research the heritage one as there's no info on the pack. Also these seeds are quite old so may not give any results though I have done well with out of date seeds in the past.

I like to try and grow something new now and again so can I join in too? Won't be a sewing a week though.

What does everyone reckon is the minimum depth for a pot of carrots?

[mothhawk]

I don't use MPC but today went out and bought a large bag, just for this carrot challenge, since they need light and fluffy and my garden soil is, well, not. Also got some sulphate of potash as I read that makes the carrots taste sweeter. Can anyone confirm that? And how much per pot?

I shall be sowing Parmex tomorrow - start small and work up, I thought...

[Penellype]

What does everyone reckon is the minimum depth for a pot of carrots?

I reckon about a foot, although you can get away with less if you are growing the small round varieties.

[BUFFS]

Im growing some in pots VC but not one a week lol, unless i breed rabbits of course, hmmmmmm, veg and bunnies, what could i do with that ?

didn't they used to have a song about wabbits and farmers

[BUFFS]

I will give this a go, I wanted to have a go at growing carrots anyway

Just need to grab some appropriate buckets.

I find the cheapest buckets are from the likes of b & q (builders) and pour boiling water on the upturned bases before drilling drainage holes as the warmth will help prevent the plastic cracking, and you can move them easily as they each have a handle, 99p last year and any of the b & m,range, poundstretcher type shops sell them..

[veggiechicken]

Bucket no 2 sown today with Kormano F1. Sow Feb - July.

[muddled]

Sowed my first bucket today, 'Touchan' from realseeds via a seedswap.
If I leave them 20 weeks they'll be ready 18th of July but realseeds reckon they're very quick so I'm hoping to eat them a bit earlier than that.

[donnakebab]

All of my carrot seeds say sow from March. You people are way to ahead of yourselves. . . and me! I'll sow mine tomorrow which is 1st of March by the way.

[muddled]

We didn't want VC to be nutty all on her own!

[veggiechicken]

^^^ Not much chance of that here, muddled
I bet that, if I came up with a really wacky idea there'd always be someone nuts enough to join in.................let me think..............