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growing veg · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 256 Location: The Emerald Isle

Just wanted to say a big thanks to you all, for all the help & advice with this plottering lark. I'm lovin' it. Here's a few pics of stuff that I've managed to grow Very Happy

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Also had loads of salad stuff and lots more to come. Some great red & green cabbage, turnip, broad beans. And still have lots more spuds in the ground .. pumpkin & various squash doing well (apart from the butternuts, not even a flower so far!! ) Toms still green, but at least they're there ... just LOADSA stuff.
So cheers, everyone Very Happy

daveandtara · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:14 pm Post subject:

wow!

you have hole-free carrots Laughing

excellent haul there GV Very Happy

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redimp · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:19 pm Post subject:

That's a good haul there GV.

BTW, are you trying to suggest that you learnt something useful from this site!!! Shocked

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wardy · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject:

those carrots look brilliant Very Happy

Beginners luck I expect Laughing

Red onions too Shocked

I did rubbish with those this year so well miffed

Good innit this lottying lark Very Happy

SeedQueen · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 604

Wow GV you have done REALLY well. Everything looks fab, but especially those carrots

lily · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:54 pm Post subject:

Wow - fantastic GV Cool

loobytoo · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject:

That really is impressive GV, like the others say, the carrots are fab. Well done in your first year Very Happy

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Delilah · Site drunken fairy Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 3932

coooooooooooooooooooolio, its just ace innit Cool

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growing veg · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 256 Location: The Emerald Isle

Thanks, I'm well chuffed.

I grew those carrots in a plastic dustbin in the back garden, but the ones I did at the plot were just as good. Like Wardy says .. prob beginners luck Laughing

And yep redimp, I learned loads from you lot Very Happy

You've all been a great help.

Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

Wow .. well done ...plastic dustbins are for me nest year too !! Very Happy

Roll on next year !! Cool

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wardy · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:42 am Post subject:

I think no soil is best for carrots. me and lotty sec came to this conclusion when this year I grew fabbo carrots in just homemade compost mixed with sharp sand and rotted leaves (sieved) We added some carrot food (it said it on the packet, it was lying about in his shed) Don't know if you can still get it Confused

They got off to a very slow start indeed and we'd more or less given up on them but they just got better and better (Chantenay red)

He reckons that the fly larvae or whatever they are (science not being my strong subject Cool

) possibly overwinter in the soil

That could all be bollocks by the way so I stand to be corrected. Mine are in a box (one of those pallet tops) about 4 x 3 foot. Got a few of them so filled the other one with carrot seed mixed with spring onion seed (another one of my ideas for deterring carrot fly)

Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3359 Location: Herts

How long did they take then till you pulled them up ??? Mine are unbelievably slow Sad

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growing veg · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 256 Location: The Emerald Isle

Mine were sowed in april. The ones in the bin, I've been harvesting since july, the ones on the plot, sowed same time but a bit slower to get to a decent size. I reckon it's coz they're more crowded down there. The ones at home got thinned a lot more frequent.