carrot growth

[charles]

 Actually I think it was more to do with the variety, Purple Haze, as the Early Nantes carrots next to it in the same bed are nearly all straight. Also in April I sowed Nantes carrot seed into a bed freshly filled with well decomposed manure and compost, on top of grass: they are straight but not so long. Best carrots were in the moon experiment bed which I shall write up, and that bed grew carrots last spring too! – then it grew turnips, and after harvesting them in November I spread two inches of home made compost on the whole bed.