Droopy
Slug Slaughterer
Joined: 11 Aug 2007
Location: Western Norway (Map)
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:41 am Post subject: |
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We've got heavy soil too, so we built a small, raised bed for them. We mix lots and lots of sand in with the soil. Actually, there's more sand than soil, come to think of it. The soil is a normal shop type, and it's worked well here.
We don't do anything fancy at all, just prepare the soil, sow them, thin them and eat them. The sandy soil is about 8 inches/20 cm deep. Our carrots are eaten way before they get that long.
We do put a thick layer of horse dung in the bottom of the raised bed though, to provide additional heat for the seeds, due to our normally cold temperature. That's probably unnecessary where you are.
We sow red (Purple Dragon), orange and yellow (Yellowstone) carrots, just for the fun of it. The orange ones are early ones, we never manage to save any for autumn anyway.
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