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Carrots

April 07, 2021

Using a root trainer

The Carrots I sowed the other week have shown no sign...
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March 25, 2021

Sowing carrots.

I learnt this trick from the Practical Self Sufficiency book. Succession sow your...
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March 12, 2021

Sow Carrots

OK, OK, I know, I ,may be getting completly carried away....
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January 14, 2021

Start the sowing

It’s early in the year, and there is a very big...
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November 08, 2020

Forcing carrots.

It’s November, and I have decided to sow some Carrots. It’s...
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July 18, 2020

Beating the pests during late summer sowings

I sowed some carrots and fennel the other week direct in...
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May 05, 2020

Carrot Problem

The carrots that I sowed the other week have really struggled....
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August 13, 2018

Touchon Carrot

The Touchon carrot is an heirloom variety that is supposed to...
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August 02, 2017

Successes of 2017

It’s been an interesting year. We’ve been settling in to our...
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Resources
  • BBC Gardening basics
  • Blight watch UK
  • Check first and last frost dates
  • garden organic
  • Gardeners world, what to do now
  • The National Allotment Society
  • The National Vegetable Society
Sites for Seed ordering.
  • DT Brown seeds
  • The Organic Gardening Catalogue
  • The Real Seed Catalogue
Varieties
All The Year Round Aubergine BBQ Mixed F1 Beetroot Boltardy bonica (F1 Hybrid) bonica F1 Hybrid Boogie Borlotto Firetongue Bright Lights Broadbean Brussels Sprouts Butternut Squash Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Charlotte Chinese Leaf Cosmic Purple Courgette Cucumber De Monica Dreadnought Dwarf French Bean Edonis Harrier F1 Jogger F1 Leeks Lettuce Melon Onion Pablo F1 Hybrid Pak Choi Yuushou F1 Pandora Pea Pepper Potato Premiere Revenge Shirley (F1 hybrid) Sungold (F1 Hybrid) Sungold - Open Pollinated Supa Roma Sweetcorn Tomato
To do this Month

2021

  • Sow Cucumber
  • Sow sweetcorn
  • Sowing Courgette
  • Wilt
  • Keeping your crops free from stress
  • Leaf scorch in April!
  • Scale insect
  • Using a root trainer
  • 'Planting out' the tomatoes
  • Planting out the Aubergines

2020

  • What to do in May
  • Plant out the sweet peppers
  • Plant out the melons
  • Dealing with the dreaded slugs organically.
  • Potting on courgettes
  • Frost Damage
  • Grow ginger from the supermarket
  • More seed sowing in April.
  • Using technology to help grow your veg.
  • Sow Cucamelon
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Pests and Diseases
Bacterial Canker Badger Birds Blossom End Rot Broad bean chocolate spot Cabbage Root Fly Cat Caterpillars Cold Damage flea beetle Frost Damage Greenfly Leaf Curl Leaf Scorch Magnesium deficiency Mice Pests & Diseases Potato Blight Powdery Mildew Rodent Rust Scale Insect Slugs Vine Weevil Wilt
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