http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/08/07/carrots-next-up/ Daily photo-journal of organic market gardening: growing local food with two acres and some tools...! Fri, 16 May 2008 19:04:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/08/07/carrots-next-up/#comment-1350 Mike (tfb) Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:39:18 +0000 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/08/07/carrots-next-up/#comment-1350 Marc: No, I haven't gotten to the stage of custom prepping the soil for specific crops (beyond adding a scoopful of compost when doing some transplants), the whole garden gets more or less the same treatment! Carrots don't benefit from over-fertilization, and in our quite heavy clay-loam soil, they don't seem to require much water either. The only problems are the usual ones of germination and pests on the seedlings, both of which aren't severe right here. Knock on wood!! Marc: No, I haven’t gotten to the stage of custom prepping the soil for specific crops (beyond adding a scoopful of compost when doing some transplants), the whole garden gets more or less the same treatment! Carrots don’t benefit from over-fertilization, and in our quite heavy clay-loam soil, they don’t seem to require much water either. The only problems are the usual ones of germination and pests on the seedlings, both of which aren’t severe right here. Knock on wood!!

]]> http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/08/07/carrots-next-up/#comment-1321 Marc from Garden Desk Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:54:28 +0000 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/08/07/carrots-next-up/#comment-1321 I have terrible luck with carrots. Yours look great. Do you amend your soil for the carrots diferently than the other vegetables? I have terrible luck with carrots. Yours look great. Do you amend your soil for the carrots diferently than the other vegetables?

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