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Want to flex your green fingers this April? An expert reveals it's the perfect time start planting a crop of delicious ...
If you want to grow carrots yourself, try this simple method you can do at home to take them from seed to full-grown veg.
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If you're looking for ways to sow and grow better carrots in your garden, a plank of wood may be the secret. Expert Tiffany Selvey weighs in.
Warmer weather means there are lots of vegetables to plant in April – and many can be sown directly outdoors, reducing time ...
This is the time of year I sow my first crop of carrot seeds, about mid-March. When the soil dries out a bit between storms and the seeds are purchased, sowing begins. I like to time a sowing just ...
Along with a number of other flowers, herbs, and vegetables, carrot seeds are little flecks of nearly nothing that can be ...
One week before sowing your seeds, rake in a light dressing of general fertiliser. Carrot seeds are small, but it's wise to plant them as thinly as possible. This reduces the amount of thinning ...
Create a drill around 1cm deep and sow seed thinly, then pull the soil back over the seed and water in gently. When the seeds have germinated, thin to around 5-7.5cm between carrots. Carrot ‘Bambino’ ...
Carrot seeds are small, but it's wise to plant them as thinly as possible. This reduces the amount of thinning necessary and the potential risk from pests. Sow the seeds thinly on a sunny ...