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[Keith B <bartermn AT epix.net>]

Gloria Morris wrote:

> If anyone has had success with carrots, tell us about your soil and 
> techniques?


I grow carrots every year in a different 4 or 5x6 foot bed and the only 
problems I've had are slugs and poor thinning. We usually have plenty of 
frozen carrots to last a full year. The seed I most often use (we rarely 
order from a catalog) is Nantes from the tractor supply, Walmart or Agway.

Our soil started out as clay with a couple inches of top soil. Yearly 
additions of compost to the entire garden and sand to the carrot bed if 
nothing else has been the trick, I'd guess. I don't baby them any more 
than any other crop.