Grow your own veg and baby vegetables from seed
Carrots
(Daucus carota)
Sow seeds very thinly, direct
spring onwards in succession to summer, 1cm deep rows 15cm apart, thin the young
seedlings to 10cm apart. Early crops can be produced by sowing seed early
indoors & transplant under cloches.
Speciality Carrots
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Carrot F1 Purple Rain Seven to eight inch tapered roots, dark purple with a white cores or purple core with white rings. Some roots might have orange cores or rings.
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Carrot White Satin F1 Pure white roots. Crisp, sweet flavour. Cylindrical juicy roots avg. 8 inches long.
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Carrot F1 Creme De Lite Pale yellow tapered roots having a very carroty flavour. Excellent cooked or cold, cut into sticks for dips, salads etc.
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Carrot Atomic Red NEW Pinkish Red Colour coral-red, 9 inch long roots. Best cooked to deepen the colour and improve the texture and flavour, strong flavoured when raw. Medium-small tops £1.25 Av 500 seeds
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Carrot Lunar White New variety of white carrot very productive. Creamy white roots with a delicious mild flavour and a small core.
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Carrot Oxheart Ox heart shaped carrots short and broad shouldered, approx 15cm long by 10cm wide, a good quality, sweet tasting heirloom from 1884. Good for heavy soils. Can be grown as baby veg.
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Carrot
Tonda di Parigi Round, 19th-century Parisian heirloom carrot, harvested at 2.5-5cm, uniform and deep orange, excellent flavour and very sweet round baby carrot. Plant at close density for bunching and baby veg.
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Carrot Purple Dragon Purple skinned carrot with an orange centre, having a high vitamin and antioxidant level. Use Carrot Purple Dragon steamed or raw in salads, dips or even juiced.
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Carrot Parmex Baby veg, mini vegetable, small, tender and full of taste. Uniform and early to mature. Use for Juicing, fresh and winter storage.
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Carrot
F1 Kinbi Carrot Kinbi uniform yellow carrots up to 15-17cm long with a very carroty flavour. Excellent cooking variety or cutting into sticks for dips, salads etc. Out of Stock
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Carrot F1 Red Samurai 2nd early, maincrop. A red skinned carrot with distinctive bright red skin and pinky inner flesh. Long tapered roots. Japanese bred carrot. Sow March to early July, Harvest June to September. 1 gram approx 800 seeds
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Carrot Solar Yellow A maincrop variety producing medium length, completely yellow roots. A sweet juicy carrot with very crunchy flesh. 2 gram approx 1,000 seeds
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Carrot Yellowstone F1 A Yellow F1 hybrid carrot with smooth yellow skin, lovely texture and full of flavour. Use in salads, dips or cooked vegetable. A carrot the children will love to grow. Sow March onwards outdoors or January onwards protected.
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Carrot Rainbow F1 Multicoloured carrots with great taste. A delightful blend of yellow, white and orange carrots. The flavour varies depending on root colour but all are tender, sweet and flavourful. 7-9 inch tapered roots with strong tops. £1.95 Av 300 seeds
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English Sage is a good companion plant for cabbage and carrot.
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Herb Sage
Perennial Evergreen Salvia officinalis Sage English has grey green slightly hairy leaf with strong flavour, used in stuffing's and many culinary forms. magical powers of sage include immortality, protection, longevity, wishes and wisdom. Sage should be cut back after flowering to avoid leggy plants. £1.15 Av 70 seeds
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Veg Index / A / Beans / B / Cab-Cape / Carrot / Cauliflower / Celeriac - Celery / Ch- D / E-L / Lettuce / M-O / Onion / P / Peppers / R / S / Toms / T-Z
The cultural
information should be used as a guide only, I have found a number of different
sowing techniques for the same seed from different sources there does not seem
to be a standard. With this in mind you should use this website as a guide only,
you probably already have a tried and tested way of sowing different seeds. As a
rule of thumb the larger the seed size the more cover it requires, and fine seed
like Lobelia Begonia etc requires no cover.
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