On 16/06/2015 16:05, Michael Uplawski wrote:
Good afternoon.

On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 09:51:18 +0100,
David Hill wrote:

There is a difference between crops like Beetroot and Swedes, and long
rooted veg like Carrots and Parsnips.
The first thing the latter do is to send down their tap root, if it gets
bent or damaged then the resulting plant will have a lumpy root when lifted.

This is true for carrots sawn on unsuitable soil. I do not yet see the
inevitability of malformed carrots because they have been replanted.
Other things may happen, but you haven't mentioned any, for the time.

Isn't the main problem that damage from handling them inevitably
advertises their location to every carrot fly and slug for miles around.

There is a problem that an ordinary seed tray may not be deep enough...

I am used to random shaped root vegetables my garden consists of mostly
of glacial morain boulder clay with a good mix of stones in it.

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Regards,
Martin Brown