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- From: "BarbaraJ" <jbmckillip AT mesanetworks.net>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Thoughts on carrots
- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:27:10 -0600
Hi Christina,
I'm at 7100' on the front range plains of
Colorado and I've had wonderful carrots. I grew a Scarlet Nantes variety
from Seed Savers, and even though we have a similar short season, I had weeks of
lovely carrots. One thing I did was to start them under row covers after
our April snow melted, I'm not looking at my notes, but I'm thinking it was
right around May 1st. since we had a ton of snow in April and I remember taking
pictures of all the Redwing Blackbirds that came home at that time. So I'm
guessing that altitude was not the major issue and sandy soil is supposed to be
good for carrots and you've got that. I don't have any answers for you,
except to say that I'm closer to your altitude and I'm getting carrots and have
grown carrots here for 12 years. I did try a White Satin carrot that
did not do well at all, too small and not as sweet tasting as I like. I
love a Nantes flavor. I also trialed Dragon carrots, but prefer the Nantes
for flavor. And my customers at the market seemed to prefer a traditional
type carrot. I'm hoping someone here has more ideas. Is it possible
that those varieties are not suited for altitude? I've never heard that
before with carrots, but it could be an issue maybe.
Barb in CO
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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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