In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:
On 16/06/2015 16:05, Michael Uplawski wrote:
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.

No. The main one is that they produce a single tap root, with a lot
of very flimsy feeding roots coming off it. It is very hard to
transplant them without damaging the former, or stripping off the
latter. But the fly issue is significant, too.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.