Carrots & Onions 2011
Although I didn’t get much carrot fly I can’t tell if the onions made any difference. I sowed 5 rows of carrot seeds amongst the onions only they took a l-o-n-g time to germinate! When they did they didn’t do very well!
Onions harvested but the carrot seedlings (sown in situ) can be seen behind them after I lifted the onions.
As Gerry told me last year he had never been able to grow them on his plots I thought I would have a go (Something that can’t be grown is like a red rag to a bull for me! I’ve just got to try to grow it myself!)
Carrots sown amongst Onions:
Onions from seed Alisa Craig:
Carrot seedlings in greenhouse
As they were taking so long to germinate I sowed some in a seedtray in the GH. They germinated quite well but by this time so had the ones amongst the onions!
This is from the day I planted out the seedlings that had been growing in the GH:
I pulled up the onions & managed to leave most of the carrot seedlings in the ground. I then planted up the bed with the carrot seedlings from the GH:
Rather fiddly but most, if not all, the seedling survived & went on to grow very well:
A few weeks ago I pulled them all up & was very disappointed to see that most of the roots were very twisted! Almost all of them were badly forked:
Yet that bed (& almost the whole allotment for that matter) had not been manured – not this year nor last as we didn’t know where to get any. Gerry has since found a source & we have lots now. The soil may have been rather hard & not deep enough but even with the dry summer/autumn we had I watered them quite frequently.
Next year I shall prepare the soil better, making sure it’s well broken up & loose.
The King's garden 