Growing Guide - Carrots

How do I avoid common pest problems?

Grow carrots with chives or onions to deter carrot root fly, or cover with fleece until the end of June to prevent the adult flies reaching your crops. Alternatively try growing varieties resistant to carrot root fly such as ‘Resistafly’.
Protect seedlings from your slugs using traps, barriers and your chosen slug control.

In the ground: Many root crops are best sown into the soil directly. When sowing root crops direct in the veg garden, make a shallow trench about 2cm deep and sprinkle in the seed sparingly, then cover with compost. In a container: Fill a large container with West+ Multi-Purpose Compost. Sprinkle the seeds very thinly over the surface of the compost and cover over with a thin layer (3-4mm) of compost.

Keep the soil/compost moist but not waterlogged. Seedlings will emerge within 7-10 days. They like warm soil/compost, ideally with a constant temperature of 10 degrees celsius.

Harvest exactly what you need when you are ready to eat them. The longer you leave the carrots the larger they will become.

Growing Guide - Carrots

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