I know that the first rule of successful experiments is to reduce the number of variables, but I think this one scrapes in as phase one of a longer term test of two canonical chunks of gardening wisdom. the two statements are:
- You must never plant carrots into newly manured ground because they will fork.
- You must always prepare the ground deeply to get long roots – so we’re testing Charles Dowding’s ‘no-dig’ method.
There’s a third subsidiary aim which is to test the claims made on behalf of ‘Early Nantes Frubund’ carrots that they can be sown successfully in August and September . Will they give an early crop? We shall see. Continue reading “Compost experiment – phase 1”