I’m on the edge with my carrots. Three squandered seed packs later, I’m wondering whether to just walk away and forget that the sweet, orange roots ever existed in my life.
A trip to Petersham Nursery on Sunday gave me another option:
Now 50p may seem a little steep for an individual carrot, even in a pretty coir pot, but my multiple seed pack scattering has generated just one single germinated frond. If I can nurture that single beauty through the inevitable carrot fly onslaught, one day soon I will get to eat a £6 carrot, maybe the most expensive carrot in the world.
Incidentally the nursery had a whole line of individual potted crops, folk were carrying them away by the wicker trug load, presumably to stock their pretty little potagers.
Turnip anyone?
10 responses so far ↓
1 Eliane // May 13, 2008 at 9:05 am
Bonkers. I can understand buying tomato or bean plants but single carrots???
2 Trudi // May 13, 2008 at 11:20 am
Gosh, buying one carrot in a pot; this must be a belated April fool’s day hoax!
3 Helen // May 13, 2008 at 12:15 pm
How mad - 50p for a carrot!!! I do know though your fustration with growing them from seed. I havent succeeded in the past and I have this week sowed some in a pot and am awaiting to see if anything happens.
4 Amanda // May 13, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Ah, but not crazy at all if you’re the one who worked out that some people are stupid enough to pay that kind of money for a single vegetable. How depressing!
5 Soilman // May 13, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Dear God, are there no limits to people’s stupidity and laziness (rhetorical)?
Carrots ARE a bugger. Cheat’s tip: scoop out a two-inch deep furrow of earth on your plot and fill it with compost. Sow the carrot seeds in that; much better germination success!
6 Karen // May 13, 2008 at 10:53 pm
I have still to eat carrot fresh from the garden - last year it was 2 seed packets - this year one - they have germinated but ….
I will not be beaten by a carrot!
I hope yours grows up to be really yummy
Regards
Karen
7 Mrs Be // May 13, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Oh, I feel your carrot pain. Hubby, who watered the allotment tonight, reckons he saw some growing. I’m not so sure so as an insurance policy I’ve got some growing in containers and they are doing very well.
FWIW I bought some organic seaweed stuff the other day and I’m going to soak some carrot seeds in that prior to planting to see if that helps.
Just planted 20 in the school garden too, in peat pots so thought I’d nick that idea using paper pots instead.
Those coir pots look nice, but really!
PS. (Will I ever stop?) I’ve tried Soilman’s tip this year on the allotment.
8 earthwoman // May 14, 2008 at 7:56 am
I’m glad I’m not the only one struggling here, I didn’t realise they were tough plants.
As for the nursery, I’d definitely sell individual carrots for 50p if I could get folk to buy them. In fact I’d probably go to Sainsburys, buy a pack of their swanky carrots complete with tops and pot them up.
9 Cheryl // May 15, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I can’t believe people would actually buy them, if they are stupid enough well so be it!!!!
My Dad used to grow carrots in a dustbin (new one) it was actually very successful.
10 Earthwoman // May 25, 2008 at 9:41 am
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