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Carrots again

CollareddoveCollareddove Posts: 173
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I continue to try with carrots, but three separate sowing have produced  very meagre germination.  I am inclined to make one decent row out of the three - does anyone have experience of transplanting carrots?  If it is possible, at what stage of carrot development should it be done?

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  • muckyhandsmikemuckyhandsmike Posts: 239
    I think you would risk the dreaded carrot fly. Disturbing the soil around carrots attracts them I believe, unless they are at least 18 inches above the ground as they don’t fly very high …
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    We gave up sowing outdoors as we had nil germination.
    We have a polytunnel so some years ago we tried sowing carrots in it.
    Brilliant harvest.
    We have continued to do this moving the areas for the sowing.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    If you sow outside I find fleecing or cloche them until they are a few inches tall helps. I use the variety Speedo and they manage the weather variations better than some @Collareddove
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