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Growing Carrots on Heavy Soil in the Vegetable Garden
Posted Aug 27 2009 5:37pm
Nairobi-Carrots-growing
It is difficult, if not impossible, to grow carrots on heavy soil in the vegetable garden. It is hard to produce a seed bed, with very small soil crumbs, suitable to enable the carrot seed to germinate. When it rains the soil goes like concrete, and then when it dries out, it cracks.
On our heavy soil we have incorporated coarse sand to make it more friable. The sand particles help to keep the clay particles apart. You need a lot of coarse sand to have any effect. You need so much that it is not really practical.
Adding a lot of organic matter does not solve the problem, because you need to add so much to have any effect.
Carrots have always been grown on sandy soils, or sandy-loams. But gardeners with heavy soil could try growing carrots in a container – which can be filled with the perfect growing medium!
Containers make it possible to grow carrots on heavy soil in the vegetable garden.
Nairobi-Carrots-growing
It is difficult, if not impossible, to grow carrots on heavy soil in the vegetable garden. It is hard to produce a seed bed, with very small soil crumbs, suitable to enable the carrot seed to germinate. When it rains the soil goes like concrete, and then when it dries out, it cracks.
On our heavy soil we have incorporated coarse sand to make it more friable. The sand particles help to keep the clay particles apart. You need a lot of coarse sand to have any effect. You need so much that it is not really practical.
Adding a lot of organic matter does not solve the problem, because you need to add so much to have any effect.
Carrots have always been grown on sandy soils, or sandy-loams. But gardeners with heavy soil could try growing carrots in a container – which can be filled with the perfect growing medium!
Containers make it possible to grow carrots on heavy soil in the vegetable garden.
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