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  • From: "Allan.Balliett" <allan.balliett AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Carrot Germination
  • Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:34:25 -0400

Where are you folks finding affordable and/or long rolls of burplap? I picked some up at HomeDepot the other day, could only get 20ft roll and I think I paid $12 a roll for it. Sadly, I didn't get any of it down before our gully washer came in last Sunday (5 inches of rain and hale in a few hours!) Strangely, radishes came up in beds after the wash, not sure the carrot seed is still in the beds, though -Allan in WV

Jay
I think I got a tip from someone on this list (or maybe the high tunnel) who covers his carrot bed with burlap. Helps to hold moisture on the bed and carrots can germinate up through the burlap. He also said that early weeds would come up through the cloth and then when you roll it off the bed the weeds come with. I hastened to try it, got a 3'x50' roll. It did help with quicker more even germination in that bed, but when I rolled it up the bed was full of chickweed, which was hiding pretty well under the cloth, so no real benefit against early weeds. I planned to try it again in a different spot but forgot and planted rows of radish in between the carrots.
Diana Jancek
Harmony Gardens
Montague, MI


On 4/29/2010 11:47 AM, Jay Sleichter wrote:

I need help to improve my carrot germination. I have been trying to keep them moist and with all the wind, that is really hard. I wet down the bed in the morning and in the evening. I am at school so a mid day sprinkling is out of the question. One of the beds in my tunnel that is planted with carrots came up terrible. In a 3 foot by 30 foot bed, I bet there are 100-150 carrots that germinated. They were planted on March 27th. The seed was new and they were planted with an Earthway planter with a heavy carrot plate, maybe a light carrot plate, my helpers don't remember. The seed was raw and pelleted. Could they still come up if I continue to keep it moist?

My carrots outside are doing about the same. What tips or tricks do you have to get them to come up?

Thanks,
Jay


Jay's Jellies, Produce and More
Clay Center, Kansas
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