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- From: "Firefly Mountain Produce" <FireflyMtn AT msn.com>
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- Subject: [Market-farming] Thoughts on carrots
- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:11:07 -0600
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for all the good information on this list--I
learn something new every day!
I have a question about carrots. I planted three
separate beds of 2 varieties this year (Parisienne, Little Finger) and, although
they all germinated in about 4-5 days, the carrots never got more than one or
two tiny frilly leaves and the roots were no thicker than a string and barely
orange. It's like they sprouted, but then just stood still for the rest of the
season. The Parisiennes, which are a small round type, weren't even balling up.
I am wondering what was missing, what they needed that they weren't getting and
what I can do differently next year to get carrots to grow. Any
thoughts?
Here's a little background. Everything else in the
garden--numerous types of greens, beets, Asian greens, spring turnips, flowers,
herbs--all grew really well. We have sandy loam soil. I just recently got soil
test results back that I took at the end of the season: the organic matter is
high, all major nutrients are adequate except potassium and magnesium are a
little high.
Although we have a pretty short growing season (last
spring frost on June 15, first frost on September 7), I planted the first batch
of carrots on June 12, as I mentioned they germinated within 4-5 days, and when
I pulled them at the end of September, they were minute! Same goes for the other
beds--I planted them at the end of June and beginning of July, and they were
similarly sprouted but tiny at end of September. It gets intensely hot and dry
over the short summer, and these (as were all the other veg) were under 40%
shade when it was hot, and under lightweight row covers at the beginning and end
of the season. I even mulched one bed of carrots, but that did not seem to make
a difference.
Does altitude affect carrots? We're at about 8000
feet...
Any thoughts or ideas you all might have will be greatly
appreciated! Thanks!
Christina Yeager
Firefly Mountain Produce
Clark, Colorado
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[Market-farming] Thoughts on carrots,
Firefly Mountain Produce, 10/24/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Thoughts on carrots, BarbaraJ, 10/24/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Thoughts on carrots, Allan Balliett, 10/25/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Thoughts on carrots, Bill Shoemaker, 10/25/2009
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