Nantes frubund?
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(from a website)
"Carrot:Nantes Frubund:Fast Crop
Highly commended by the Royal Horticultural Society, UK. It is the first genuine autumn sowing carrot, exceptionally early and cold resistant. It will give you carrots in your garden in the spring when nobody else has them and when they are fetching high prices in the shops. A very important autumn sowing vegetable breakthrough.
Sowing Instructions. Sow from late winter to autumn in drills 1cm (½in) deep, spaced 30cm (12in) apart.
Winter sowings for a really early crop can be made in a coldframe or greenhouse.
Growing Instructions. As soon as the seedlings are large enough to handle, start thinning them out so that they are finally 10cm (4in) apart. The last thinnings will provide tender roots just large enough to be used.
Aftercare Instructions. Continue sowing until mid or even late autumn in mild spells. Harvest late spring onwards."
From my experience I would try from late August but before the end of October. It isn't just a matter of hardiness, the temperatures are so low and the daylight so restricted after October that nothing really grows then so germination will be impossible, you relly need them estabished before then.
Allan
"Carrot:Nantes Frubund:Fast Crop
Highly commended by the Royal Horticultural Society, UK. It is the first genuine autumn sowing carrot, exceptionally early and cold resistant. It will give you carrots in your garden in the spring when nobody else has them and when they are fetching high prices in the shops. A very important autumn sowing vegetable breakthrough.
Sowing Instructions. Sow from late winter to autumn in drills 1cm (½in) deep, spaced 30cm (12in) apart.
Winter sowings for a really early crop can be made in a coldframe or greenhouse.
Growing Instructions. As soon as the seedlings are large enough to handle, start thinning them out so that they are finally 10cm (4in) apart. The last thinnings will provide tender roots just large enough to be used.
Aftercare Instructions. Continue sowing until mid or even late autumn in mild spells. Harvest late spring onwards."
From my experience I would try from late August but before the end of October. It isn't just a matter of hardiness, the temperatures are so low and the daylight so restricted after October that nothing really grows then so germination will be impossible, you relly need them estabished before then.
Allan
Hello Allan
Have you grown this 'Frubund' variety? I'd never heard of it before but sounds like something that's well worth trying. Young carrots in early spring seems like a good idea! Anyone else had a try with it?
John
Have you grown this 'Frubund' variety? I'd never heard of it before but sounds like something that's well worth trying. Young carrots in early spring seems like a good idea! Anyone else had a try with it?
John