@Fitzy the carrots etc are starting to show well in the kids planters, got them to weed one of the today , delighted with themselves
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How long from sowing to what we see there? Sowed 4 rows this evening. Will you thin them now before they get any bigger? Fired in scallions and chard as well. Parsnips and more onion tomorrow.
Another few weeks and I’ll have a years worth of garlic. Didn’t bother with the spuds this year. Too much fuckacting earlier in the year but I don’t miss the stooping.
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April, will thin them a little. One of the girls wants another row on the middle… We will see!
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The modern thinking is to sow carrots thinly so that they don’t need to be thinned out. Thinning them releases that carrot smell and attracts every carrot root fly for miles. Hard to believe but I wouldn’t question Monty Don.
I did thin one year but quickly disposed of the thinning about five miles from my house. I got away with it.
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Also, Monty said a few weeks ago that you shouldn’t sow carrots in freshly composted or fertilised ground as this causes forking. Years ago they always said that it was stones caused forking.
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Is that paint on the raised bed timber, or creosote?!
We’ve the carrots, cabbages, purple sprouting broccoli, squashes, pumpkins, runner beans and peas planted. The young lad better start getting fond of vegetables very soon.
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Finally, do any of ye have trouble getting yer better halfs to cook the garden produce?
At this stage I’ve almost given up growing veg. Just a few garlic and onions is all.
I’ve read that if you put the carrots in a raised bed the carrot fly wont reach them as they cant actually fly
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They fly low so a raised bed or two foot fine mesh around the bed. But you might get away with all that if you sow late and don’t thin.
What’s weird name for a pest. They’re neither carrots nor flies but yet are called carrot flies.
I’m replanting half my patch. Very poor germination. Don’t know why.
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Treated paint chief
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Good idea planting peas, beans and spuds together. They’re ‘companion plants’.
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Plant coriander with your carrots, and also throw in a bit of rosemary, basil and mint to keep the flies away. I’d always plant marigolds (as sacrificial plants) in with the cabbage and salads to keep slugs away from them.
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Lockdown winning!
Mother of God!
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Are you spraying HGH on them? Some growth
Could have a stall at a farmers market