If carrots are put in now, will they grow enough outside to be worth while, as mine have been a disaster so far this year?
It's been 10 years since I had a veg plot but I'm sure I used to sow carrots for baby carrots now. Maybe 2 weeks to germinate? Could be quicker in this weather. Should get a useful crop by October (definitely so in a polytunnel)
Leeks? should get some pencil sized ones by the time it gets cold, just sow direct quite thick and let them get on with it
gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8955 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 19 4:35 pm Post subject:
Pak Choi in, and early carrots and wallflowers!
Climbing French Beans sown. I think I've got some leek seed....
It will be interesting to compare the results eventually, as we are spread geographically
Shan
Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Posts: 9075 Location: South Wales
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 19 6:20 pm Post subject:
I have some leeks ready to be planted out. Just need to weed the bed they are going into.
I might try some more carrots and leeks in the bed I have cleared the potatoes from. It is under a hedge, but it might work. The carrots I sowed a few weeks ago have come up all right; well some have, the multicolour ones seem a bit shy.
Shan
Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Posts: 9075 Location: South Wales
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 19 7:06 am Post subject:
My purple ones always did well but to be honest, I found them a bit bland. The white were the sweetest, followed bbq the orange, then the yellow. The purple were oddly savoury in a potato sort of way. A good foil for the rest, I suppose.
I will use up some more of the packet of mixed colour carrots next year, then when they are gone, will probably go back to orange. For once this year the various coloured chards have worked; usually they fail. Odd how the unusual coloured things don't germinate as well, especially as the original carrots weren't orange.
Dpack, good luck with a short rotation crop. What about radishes?
my sparrows enjoyed the last planting of onions, there may be the odd survivor out of quite a few
i have about 6 wks light in that spot so i was thinking of mustard to cut as very young leaves over a week or so.
I found 5 sparrows in the greenhouse yesterday.... I really don't want to net it. I picked everything ripe or nearly ripe and I will have to live with whatever else they scavenge. They only seem to begging for the low hanging ones at the moment, so I can live with that.
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