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Old March 16, 2017   #14
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Originally Posted by garyjr View Post
My wife asks me every year why I grow carrots being as they are so cheap in the store. I just tell her for me it is a test of my gardening skills and how much I am learning each year and how to apply that into growing a better and better carrot. A you-tube channel I subscribe to out of the U.K. is a gentleman that grows competition veggies and giant carrots are one of those. He makes a large box fills it with builders sand and then takes a pipe about 2 1/2" diameter and quite long and drives it in and then removes it, taking out a core sample of sand. He replaces that with almost all compost. I grow mine in a combination of compost, peat moss, and vermiculite. Be careful with nitrogen. Too much and they can come out quite strange. Good luck.
You can't buy old fashioned carrots in the store:

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