Comments on: The Carrot Saga Continues http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-carrot-saga-continues/ From the edge of Zone 1 to the middle of nowhere... Fri, 24 May 2013 04:30:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eating My Words « Town Mouse http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-carrot-saga-continues/#comment-9402 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:38:25 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=2646#comment-9402 [...] on TownMouse we have established 1) that carrots are an enormous faff to grow and 2) I don’t actually like the bastarding things so it doesn’t matter – I was [...]

]]> By: Friends don’t Let Friends Grow Carrots « Town Mouse http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-carrot-saga-continues/#comment-8882 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:12:52 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=2646#comment-8882 [...] by which I had – through diligent chitting, growing on, planting out, covering under cloches, losing most to slugs and repeating several times – raised precisely a dozen carrots. I have not pulled any of them [...]

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-carrot-saga-continues/#comment-8345 Tue, 24 May 2011 08:23:23 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=2646#comment-8345 Hi Phil – it’s kind of a mixed bag, this one! I tried that last year and they germinated really patchily – but I’ll be trying again later now (if) the soil has warmed up…

]]> By: Phil Jones http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-carrot-saga-continues/#comment-8344 Mon, 23 May 2011 22:49:08 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=2646#comment-8344 Hi Sally – found your biking blog! Why don’t you just sow the carrot seeds straight into the ground? Works for me…

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-carrot-saga-continues/#comment-8339 Mon, 23 May 2011 16:10:00 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=2646#comment-8339 WOL – if I knew how, I’d do it in a shot
Stonehead – We have moles too – I’m quite fond of them except for when my foot goes through one of the tunnels and I almost break my ankle… they’ll have to join the queue in the carrot destruction saga, behind everything else. Down to 3 now

]]> By: Stonehead http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-carrot-saga-continues/#comment-8338 Mon, 23 May 2011 15:32:33 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=2646#comment-8338 In the past, our carrots have suffered thanks to dry soil, overly wet soil, slugs, carrot fly, crows and pigeons. This year, we have a change. We have moles. Lots and lots of moles. They’re pushing everything up and over. I’ve gone from liking moles to detesting them. :(

]]> By: WOL http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-carrot-saga-continues/#comment-8320 Thu, 19 May 2011 17:01:08 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=2646#comment-8320 Feel free to export and any all the rain you like to us. We’ll take it with open . . .I started to say “open arms,” but now that I think on it, “open umbrellas” might be the better phrasing.

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-carrot-saga-continues/#comment-8318 Thu, 19 May 2011 10:29:24 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=2646#comment-8318 Paperboy – I’d be happy with any carrot at all at this stage.
DM – we have plenty rain – would you like it? My spring onions & garlic are supposed to ward off the carrot fly although I’m not convinced…

]]> By: dressingmyself http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-carrot-saga-continues/#comment-8314 Wed, 18 May 2011 21:11:47 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=2646#comment-8314 Thank goodness I haven’t planted carrots – we haven’t had any rain for 2 months.

Are you going to plant marigolds next to the carrots? That can help keep off carrot fly.

]]> By: The Paper Boy http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-carrot-saga-continues/#comment-8313 Wed, 18 May 2011 20:20:50 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=2646#comment-8313 Maybe it will be a solitary carrot – but a monster like the parsnips last season (get me there sounding like Percy Thrower)

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