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We have just started using the carrots pictured here. They are a little small but there are plenty for the next few weeks.

First sowing of Carrots Chantenay Royal - seven 4′ rows 12″ apart and about 0.5″ deep. Sown very thinly to avoid having to thin later and we should end up with them 4″ to 6″ apart. Thinning carrots attracts carrot fly so avoid doing so. Make sure the ground is well prepared, deeply dug and as stone free as possible. There will be a further sowing later.

Dug up first of the resown carrots which are just big enough for eating at the beginning of October. They should get slightly bigger and last for a while yet in the ground.

All the carrots were destroyed by rabbits so the carrots were resown having blocked the holes in the border where i think they have entered. Although a little late for sowing, we should have some reasonable size carrots sometime in October.

Reasonable sized carrots but not large were ready early July when lifting from the first sowing was started.

Carrots at end June - the first sowing is the taller plants on the right and the second is those on the left.

Second sowing of Carrots early to mid May about four weeks after the first

Sow Carrots Topscore in Mid April very thinly about 0.5″ deep in rows 10″ wide. These will not be thinned to lessen the risk of Carrot Fly so must be sown very thinly and there will be a further sowing later to extend the cropping period