Today We are going to Prepare the ground ready to plant, The Best Disease Resistant Top Weight Carrots, which are a disease resistant Carrot with long stems and thick Tubers, ideal for eating cooked, or Baked, or put into stews, casseroles, almost any way you want them, and are some times very difficult to grow, but with care and good management from us Gardeners, we can help you become a very successful at it.
Also before we plant the seeds we need to dig the soils over which have been laying idol over winter months with rotting Organic and Animal Manure, in which has been dug into the soil during the Autumn, and allowed to break down, now is the time to churn it all up and bring it into a nice workable bed for these baby seeds to be laid to rest to allow to germinate, and shoot through top of the ground, and then you know you have succeeded in your quest to grow them.
First we dig the soil get all the weeds out and feel that nice workable soil in your hands, its no good working in the garden if the soil is too wet and gooey, to work as it only sticks to your hands and makes a mess of your clothes and Boots; So always wait till soil is drying out, and is warming up as if you plant seeds in wet soggy cold soil they will rot and disappoint you, even discourage you from replanting so be a patient gardener and wait for the right time and surprise not only yourself but other in the family.
Ok now we have dug it over and removed all the weeds now its time, to rake it to make it nice and smooth not to many lumps of soil but nice ever pliable easy to handle, and a good way to know if its ready to plant seeds in is if when you get a hand full and squeeze your hand, and it doesn't stick in a big clump; but will release, easy good .
Next we now measure out the rows we can get per bed , but before that make up your mind what kind of bed you want to use , meaning do you want raised beds meaning a hump in the middle to allow water to drain off when rains, or do you want, a flat bed, my own general purpose is for a raised bed to allow water to drain away easy when it rains, then your seeds will not get d round, in water.
Ok next we measure our rows out to about 12 inches apart giving plenty of room to be cultivated between the rows and also feeding organic Waste from cages every 7 days for quick growth, a free growing Carrot, that healthy will taste much better when eaten. And a faster growing vegetable looks better seeing gardens flourishing gives the gardener something to poke his chest out and be happy his plants have responded to his help.
So now its time to start planting, and see if we are as good as we plan to be, and if you are then people will want to ask you questions, and know you will be able to let them know the answers, because you have done it by experiences, and by teaching them like this and keeping it updated every day, and if you require an email each week with tips and tricks to making your garden better then I'm happy to give them to you.
Now we have opened the rows up and planted the seeds into each row, don't plant the seeds to thick because that a waste, meaning when seeds all come through the soil after about between 14 and 21 days, and grow to about 2 centimeter high you then have to thin them out as to allow stronger ones to grow so how I sow them is sparingly and thin you usually have about 2000 seeds per packet,The Best Carrots you can grow, disease free. so keep weeding and Planting, till next time from Gazza, you be blessed