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PRI Zaytuna Farm – Main Crop Carrots

Main crop carrots can be planted onto a shallow line of fine builder’s sand just few millimetres thick. The seeds can then be covered with a thin sprinkle of sand.

Two weeks later the carrots have sprouted into a thick line.

Six weeks later they are large enough to be weeded, and then thickly mulched.

Twelve weeks later mini carrots can be harvested, thinning the row.

Sixteen weeks later and you have small and medium carrots to harvest.

After twenty to twenty four weeks you have medium to large carrots to harvest.

By planting carrots every two weeks we always have carrots of all sizes every day of the year.

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Geoff Lawton

Geoff Lawton is a world renowned Permaculture consultant, designer and teacher. He first took his Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course in 1983 with Bill Mollison the founder of Permaculture. Geoff has undertaken thousands of jobs teaching, consulting, designing, administering and implementing, in 6 continents and close to 50 countries around the world. Clients have included private individuals, groups, communities, governments, aid organizations, non-government organisations and multinational companies under the not-for-profit organisation. In 1996 Geoff was accredited with the Permaculture Community Services Award by the Permaculture movement for services in Australia and around the world. Geoff's official website is GeoffLawtonOnline.com. Geoff's Facebook profile can be found here.

9 Comments

  1. Great stuff! How does the irrigation of this system work Geoff? I see the pipes, but no drippers or sprinklers…?

    Keep up the great work!

  2. I noticed from picture no 3,4 and 5 that the raised beds planted with other crops as strips,is there any rules or purpose for that?

    1. No that works, we like close plantings as we have lots of seed and like to harvest many different sizes of carrot not just big so we close plant and as we eat all different sizes.

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