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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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!
T-tape with a drip every 300mm.
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?
Yes companion plant, stay tuned for a future article.
dear jeoff lawton thanke you to explain how to plant carrot in sand to give good taste
Thanks for that… Any reason not to just mix the carrot seed and sand together before planting (to save time)?
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.
Is that beet root to the right of the carrots?
Bib beetroot on the left in one photo and small kale on the right in another photo.