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  • From: "Christine & Marlin" <glenecofarm AT planetcomm.net>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:00:12 -0400

 

 

 

>I've never had any luck with carrots in our heavy clay soils.

I've given up on carrots completely.  I've tried them year

after year in different conditions:  nope.  No luck.

I think it's a myth that carrots ever grow well, although

maybe they grow well in sand.

 

Here in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley I am dealing with rocky silt loam soils with a clayey subsoil base—not the greatest soil for growing carrots in, but I can grow carrots here, nothing worth bragging about, but acceptable nevertheless.  They don’t have to be very good to be considerably better than supermarket carrots, including those stubby, already peeled, and ready to eat things that have become the rage in recent years.  Considering all the work involved in keeping them weeded, digging them, cleaning them up, and then bunching them for sale, I can’t justify growing many of them for farmers’ market sales but I do like to grow some for my CSA clients and myself.  I have my best luck with Early Nantes types like Nelson and Mokum and with a smaller Early Nantes type called Little Finger.  Most would say that I should do OK with Chantenay but I don’t like them as they tend to get too thick and woody for my satisfaction.  I stay away from Imperiator types.

 

Marlin Burkholder

Virginia

  




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