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- From: Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:30:14 -0500
>
> I think it's a myth that carrots ever grow well, although
> maybe they grow well in sand. I haven't tried pure sand.
I've had fair luck with carrots. Both in sandy and fairly heavy soil.
I tend avoid the heavy soil because the carrots are so difficult to
harvest. They do germinate slowly and grow slowly (100-120 days?)
which makes weed control tedious. Here in central Texas, they are a
winter and early spring crop. We just finished harvesting carrots; the
last ones were too old. I think we started pulling carrots back in
February.
If you have success with spinach, you might try planting carrots at the
same time. I have planted carrots WITH spinach and had fair success;
long after the spinach was done, we pulled carrots.
Seems like I have heard of spraying kerosene or diesel over the top of
carrots for weed control. Another of those barely believable cultural
practices, like salting asparagus. I have tried neither.
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question,
Pat Meadows, 06/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question,
Allan Balliett, 06/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question,
Pat Meadows, 06/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question,
John Pike, 06/25/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, Allan Balliett, 06/25/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, John Pike, 06/25/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, Allan Balliett, 06/25/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, John Pike, 06/25/2006
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- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, Tradingpost, 06/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question,
John Pike, 06/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question,
Pat Meadows, 06/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question,
Allan Balliett, 06/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question,
Pat Meadows, 06/25/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, Kelly Saxer, 06/25/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, road's end farm, 06/26/2006
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[Market-farming] Shallots,
logrock, 06/26/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Shallots,
road's end farm, 06/26/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Shallots, logrock, 06/27/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Shallots, road's end farm, 06/27/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Shallots,
road's end farm, 06/26/2006
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