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Can you do this with rutabegas?
What about in Alaska ? Our ground freezes solid.. also sunlight is approx 4-5 hrs a day winter months =7-8
I studied Eliot Coleman and his winter candy carrots. Though I still have not been able to figure out if this would work at all for me. We are just starting out this year, even though we have growing experience, just have yet to try this method. Any advice? We are an Alaska urban farm in zone 4-5 thanks!
Snow is called 'a poor man's manure' by protecting the soil. Nature protects soil w/ dead tops of plants/grasses in the winter & bare soil is rare.
What is the name of those carrots?
Also, at Home Depot, outside where the lumber is, they have these things called "concrete ladders." They are great for low tunnels. They are 10-feet long but you can cut them into smaller sections. Think they were $2.79 each.
which carrot? Where did you get the seed?
Did you ever leave a carrot in the ground for the next year? It think someone in Denmark did this and it was some sort of delicacy?
I've been farming a garden for pretty much my whole life, but it's never really done great… think my max profit was 3k on a third acre… I'm thinking of trying some of these techniques…. do they really work as well as Curtis makes them sound?
Very Nice! I love carrots, this would be something I can do, and thanks again for so much help I really enjoy watching 😀
If I planted scarlet Nantes in the pnw in the last week of august is it going to be enough time to mature? Could I interplant with tatsoi?
Bolero? Or Red Cored Chateney?
What kind of tree is this in the background? It's beatuifull with the red leafs.
The carrots sure looked good and I'm sure they taste great also. YUM Amazing that the poly tunnel will keep them thawed.
Appreciate your helpful insights. Any type if carrot will do ?? Do you use a special type of carrot seed .
Are there other crops that can be done the same way? Such as potatoes, rutabagas, etc.
Would this work with spinach and romaine lettuce in my zone 8b Vancouver climate?
Have you considered putting together your videos on DVD's by topic, so that people could buy them and watch on TV screens? I know I would value it. It would make it easier for more than one person to watch together.
do you have any rodent issues with your overwintering carrots and if so what do you do about them? I tried growing winter carrots on my urban plots for several years with good yields but only to find that the rodents would spoil most of them. Tried everything to stop them with no success.
my climate is 15°c and 5°c in winter Im using the variety "Chantenay", can I grow in winter?
Hey Curtis , I just want to know where you get your greenhouse poly 6 mil ? I live in New Brunswick Canada and I cant find anything! Thanks
I'm in central Ontario. Pretty cold here. It is a bit of a hit or miss proposition leaving the carrots in as the ground can freeze so hard you can't dig them out in the middle of the coldest part of the year. If you can dig them they are fine though. Bales of straw on the row can help.
Do you thin carrots after they are so tall? Looks like they were all pretty close together. This my first year with root vegetables as I did raised beds (1500 sq ft). I decided to plant turnips, beets, carrots, parsnips, broccoli for winter harvest after my summer beds were done. Using same system, zone 6 in PA, if need be, I can place higher hoops and more plastic to come up another zone. Thank you for taking the time to produce your videos.
smart tx
Great teacher as well as a farmer. We will see two nights or so of -30, but this method will work where I live. I'm going to play a little next winter. Thanks for the lesson.
We harvested some today (Feb 23) in Ottawa, Canada, just pulled them and left them under straw and about 1 meter of snow… So nice to have carrots from October to February… Well see if we can make it into March. Some longer/thinner varieties seem to go soft, but the thick/stubby ones see to work well.
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Here in Germany I grow winter carrots in a #sunkenbed established on a layer of warming horse manuare covered up.
What do you do with the carrot greens?
Holy shit that's some carrots
How do you fertilize your carrots? I’ve heard that too much fertilizer could ruin the shape of the carrots.