Farming Friends & TopVeg have collaborated to create some FREE How To Grow Vegetables Cards, including this How to Grow Carrots card.
If you would like a pdf of this carrot card or any of the How to Grow cards, please complete the contact form asking for the grow card you would like and we will email it to you.
How to grow carrots in the vegetable garden:
fresh-carrots
carrot-bed
thinning-carrot-row
pulling-carrot-seedlings-out
nandor-carrot
Checking the planted shallots revealed that some had jumped out of their bed.
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This often happens, particularly just after planting the shallots, before they have had time to push out some roots which will anchor them down.
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Shallots tend to jump out of bed because either:
We always blamed the sparrows who investigate anything new in the vegetable garden. But these shallots have been covered with a cloche to protect them from the frost, so birds would not get to the shallots easily. So fingers seem to be pointing at the worms for displacing the shallots.
pushing-shallot-in-ground
We just push the shallots back into the bed, and will continue checking them until they are rooted firmly into the ground.
How to harvest leeks depends on which end of the season they are at.
Early season leeks are lifted by placing a fork under the roots. The roots hold
on tightly and the stem easily snaps off, if a fork is not used to loosen the roots.
Late leeks have a stronger stem and can be pulled, giving a slight twist to break the roots, so most of the root clump & soil stay in the ground.
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Rainfall in the TopVeg garden in February 2010 was 59.5ml
January 2010 was 57 ml
Rainfall in the TopVeg garden in 2009 was 518.75
| Month | Rainfall ml |
|---|---|
| January | 32 |
| February | 45.5 |
| March | 17 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 41.5 |
| June | 13 |
| July | 111 |
| August | 40 |
| September | 11.5 |
| October | 63.75 |
| November | 69.5 |
| December | 67 |
The annual rainfall in the TopVeg Garden:
| Year | Rain ml |
|---|---|
| 206 | 631 |
| 207 | 795 |
| 208 | 571 |
| 209 | 519 |
The rainfall in Febuary 2010 in the TopVeg garden (59.5) was higher than last year (45.5), what was yours?
Everyone wants to crack on in the vegetable garden in March, as the birds begin to sing and the days get longer – but the ground is still cold, and will be until it dries up. So don’t go mad and sow all your seeds – just put a few in and leave the rest until the soil has dried out.
Sow:
Crop: Finish harvesting cabbages, leeks, parsnips, kale and sprouting broccoli.
Other jobs:
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