Yayyyyy. Tonight's dinner.jansman wrote: ↑Fri Jun 10, 2022 4:53 pmWAIT! The foliage will get much lusher, trust me. Look again end of July. Then sow again at that time. They will stand the Winter, and we had them at Christmas.jennyjj01 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 10, 2022 12:11 pmHey Jansman,jansman wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 4:09 pm I cannot grow carrots. Until this year. I got some 2 gallon buckets from work ( they contained sausage seasoning), punched holes in the bottom, two thirds filled them with home made compost, then topped it with seed compost ( weed free). Thinly sowed Amsterdam Forcing carrot seed across the surface, covered with a thin layer of seed compost and watered gently. Kept them damp, and here’s the result.
How do you pick the time to harvest your bucket of carrots. Mine are Amsterdam forcing too.
There looks to be a lot of greenery and ONE carrot in particular has shot up like a tree. I don't want to pull them up just as they start to plump up, but i don't want to be too late either.
I've had a feel around in the soil and I can't feel much carrot at all. I'm being impatient again, aren't I.
Your thoughts?
First carrot harvest today. 180g about 1/4 of what had been sowed in a 2 gallon bucket on April 9th.
These were Amsterdam Forcing variety sowed direct. They had probably crowded each-other out. Shortest about an inch. Longest about four inches. They had started to show above the soil and some needed a tiny bit of green carrot snipping off the top.
I've left the rest as undisturbed as I can and sprinkled a bit of extra compost and tomorite. That's a point.... I never did feed them.
No rot or carrot fly, I'm quite pleased with them. I know I could have served them with a bit of the foliage, but didn't want to upset the tasting panel.
So, doing the maths..... I think I need to grow five buckets worth to become self reliant in 'baby carrots' and five buckets of peas.
Not much sign of my Paris Market or nantes carrots.
Beetroots are ready to harvest.
Peas are ready to dig out and resow
Tomatoes have just a very few green fruits. very disappointing.
Onions bolted and have massive seed heads. I think I'll try germinating those seeds.
The courgettes outgrew the planter and suppressed the green beans and leeks that accompanied them.
Spuds have lots of foliage. Far too soon to look in on them.