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Bob Hobden[_6_] · 20-02-2017, 02:04 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 20 Feb 2017 13:15, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
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Bob Hobden wrote:

How are they grown : don't they have to bother about carrot root
fly?

Fleece.

Whenever we have tried to use fleece over carrots we get nil
germination. We use an old water tank so they are well above the
ground (the fly are lazy) which also allows us to use sandy open
compost which carrots like.

My point stands; that's what they use. You don't need to put the
fleece on until after the seedlings appear, though I don't find it
makes any difference. Of course, that's on sandy soil in Cambridge,
and it may be a damping-off issue. I find carrot germination is
always unreliable.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Actually we used to find germination a bit patchy but since using
bought compost with a lot of added sharp sand not had a problem. Best
germination was when we used to save our own seed of a heritage
variety, the Chertsey Carrot, just about 100%.

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Regards
Bob Hobden