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Carrots in tubs question.
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| Anthony 2007-03-26, 8:25 pm |
| Hi All
This year I am planning to sow carrots in tall drums, mainly to try and keep
them pest free.
Can anybody recommend a soil/compost mix to grow them in?
Thanks in advance
Anthony
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| Donna \(UK\) 2007-03-27, 3:25 am |
| I just used the peat free grow bags from B&Q and Homebase and they turned
out lovely. I grew onions near mine last year and that seemed to help keep
the pests down to a minimum.
Donna
"Anthony" <ah@614kingsway.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi All
>
> This year I am planning to sow carrots in tall drums, mainly to try and
> keep them pest free.
> Can anybody recommend a soil/compost mix to grow them in?
> Thanks in advance
>
> Anthony
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| Broadback 2007-03-27, 9:25 am |
| Donna (UK) wrote:
> I just used the peat free grow bags from B&Q and Homebase and they turned
> out lovely. I grew onions near mine last year and that seemed to help keep
> the pests down to a minimum.
>
> Donna
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> "Anthony" <ah@614kingsway.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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As I have written before the only success I have had to keep root fly
away from carrots was growing them in a builders bulk bag. That I 2/3rds
filled with a mix of soil and well rotted leaf mould.
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| La Puce 2007-03-27, 1:25 pm |
| On 27 Mar, 07:42, "Donna \(UK\)" <raindancer...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just used the peat free grow bags from B&Q and Homebase and they turned
> out lovely. I grew onions near mine last year and that seemed to help keep
> the pests down to a minimum.
So true - this year I'm trying chives around carrots. Because the
onions are supposed to be stronger when young, mine have been in since
feb and by the time I do carrots (end April) my onions are not so
young and therefore not strong smelling to repel the psila. The chives
will be prettier too, with their blue flowers. I've got a clump at the
base of our rose, and it's astonishing the reduction of flies and
especially black spots it has made.
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| On 27 Mar 2007 08:06:00 -0700, La Puce wrote:
> On 27 Mar, 07:42, "Donna \(UK\)" <raindancer...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> So true - this year I'm trying chives around carrots. Because the
> onions are supposed to be stronger when young, mine have been in since
> feb and by the time I do carrots (end April) my onions are not so
> young and therefore not strong smelling to repel the psila. The chives
> will be prettier too, with their blue flowers. I've got a clump at the
> base of our rose, and it's astonishing the reduction of flies and
> especially black spots it has made.
Spring onions work. Leaving any thinnings lying helps too.
--
Jim S
Tyneside UK
http://www.jimscott.co.uk
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| Anthony 2007-03-28, 8:25 pm |
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"Jim S" <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 27 Mar 2007 08:06:00 -0700, La Puce wrote:
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> Spring onions work. Leaving any thinnings lying helps too.
> --
> Jim S
> Tyneside UK
> http://www.jimscott.co.uk
Thank you all for your ideas and advice.
I have also received this information from the father of a workmate.
"For Exhibition long carrots grow in:-
one garden barrow of soil
quarter barrow of fine sand
half barrow of multi purpose compost
mix well"
This info came from a seed packet.
Thanks again
Anthony
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| Carol Hague 2007-03-29, 3:25 am |
| La Puce <helene@rudlin.co.uk> wrote:
> On 27 Mar, 07:42, "Donna \(UK\)" <raindancer...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> So true - this year I'm trying chives around carrots. Because the
> onions are supposed to be stronger when young, mine have been in since
> feb and by the time I do carrots (end April) my onions are not so
> young and therefore not strong smelling to repel the psila. The chives
> will be prettier too, with their blue flowers.
Blue flowers? I've only ever seen pink ones on chives. Is it a special
variety or are they like hydrangeas and the colour varies with the ph of
the soil ?
--
Carol
"Never trust a man wearing leather shorts and a plastic dressing gown"
- Spray, "The Dangerous Sports Club"
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