But there has been carrots. Lots of them (whole, not diced). There have been ordinary, purple and rainbow ones both at home and at the allotment. And there's been a fair amount of surprise.
Anyone who read my old blog last year will know I wasn't.....ahem...terribly successful with carrots. They just refused to grow. This time I tweaked my technique and - voila - we have lots of lovely carrots.
Last year I tucked them up in a lovely soft, fine compost bed (just a drill lined with compost into which the seeds were sown and then tucked up with a small sprinkling of more compost). Then I watered.
The sun shone and a nice hard crust developed against which the seedlings were no match. This year I didn't water for a couple of weeks. It may have rained, I can't remember, but that didn't seem to matter. It was my watering I think that put paid to them last year.
I also sowed a row the other week in a small space next to some rainbow chard at the allotment (I was at that point running out of room) and they have come up too so I don't think it's a fluke. And yes I am taking full credit for this success rather than the soil/weather/the moon.
