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Transplanting Carrots
"David Hill" wrote in message ... On 03/06/2015 00:04, philgurr wrote: "Roger Tonkin" wrote in message ... Whilst in Homebase this afternoon, I wandered around the garden bit and noticed among other vegetables, they were selling small trays of carrotts, each with 6-8 clumps of quite tall seedlings. Instructions of the tray said palnt out in frost free soil! No indication of whether you should break up the clumps or of distance. I was always lead to belive that transplanting of root vegetables like carrots/parsnips/swedes etc was a no no, as they roots would split or not form properly. Is this true? If so how do Homebase justify selling them like this? It is not true. I have grown beetroot successfully in cells in the greenhouse for years before planting outside and had a good crop every year. I shall be planting out in a weeks time here in the far north, when we will probably be free of frost (although this year there is no certainty !!!). It is the only way that we can get a long enough growing season. Phil 40 miles N. of Inverness 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. I always understood it was a bad idea to transplant carrots, but I am happy to be proved wrong. |
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