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Hi Compo,
It would be rather nice to hear something constructive for a change from you. You are aware that we have Moderators on the forum and fortunately you are not one of them. When they object and only when they object will I even consider that Allan or myself have commited an offence.
Did you learn anything from the thread? Probably not
as you are too fond passing purile comments about other people to take in what has been said.
I consider that you are the person who is spoiling the thread.
Remember it is not your perogative to pass judgement and if you have any argument with that then I suggest you consult the Moderators before you rush into print in future.
You say you have several ideas about experiments with Carrots well lets hear them if you are intersted to discuss them.
For your information I do not shout anything I have stated clearly what I have done and pointed out to Allan that what he was trying to work out was already in the thread.

calm down you two! this arguing is all a bit intimidating

Compo is totally flabbergasted.........talk about a one way conversation .........make a comment and it all blows back in your face.........I am not moderating.........just stating my point of view........makes want to swear......well I am going to

ORganic
Organic
ORGANIC!!!

keep smiling Compo!

OK Boys - let's start again.

Tigger, could you perhaps rephrase that?
Taken literally..........

Carrots eh! Always bring out the beast....oops I meant the best in people..!!

We were all having a good debate about carrots until Auntie Compo tried to tell us off.

Compo Ive told you this before you cant claim free speech for yourself if you have previously tried to stop us saying something - gettit?

Anyway I enjoy reading what you write - I seldom laugh so much at anybody else.

Johnboy is competely right too.

David

Well Compo,
I am here waiting to discuss Carrots with you. The selection of seed, the methods of growing, growing on clay soil, growing as the experiment I have done this year, growing as the experiment I did last year and have repeated again this year. All of which have been published on the forum so I feel that my input has been quite considerable over the years.
Now lets hear your ideas on Carrots because you may have come up with something that everybody may benefit from. Now I am not taking the p--s lets debate!

And while we are all waiting for Compo to enlighten us, I have got a smashing tilth with the cultivator on my 100 ft row for a crop of non pelleted Autumn King to go in tomorrow if the weather holds. It's now or never for this year.
By the way, Compo joined us on 16 March 06, message rate averages 1.6 messages per day, that's quite good for a newboy, I'm sure he must have a lot to tell us.
Allan

I got fed up with appalling germination on my stony allotment so I've tried sowing in 4" pots and planting out as a clump when at the 1 or 2 true leaf stage.I've used Early Nantes to hopefully mature quickly and I planted them out this weekend.I watered the pots the day before and they came out of the pots without disturbance,the fine roots were just starting to show towards the bottom of the pot so hopefully they wont suffer any restriction of root growth. I will now wait and see......

Allan wrote:And while we are all waiting for Compo to enlighten us, I have got a smashing tilth with the cultivator on my 100 ft row for a crop of non pelleted Autumn King to go in tomorrow if the weather holds. It's now or never for this year.
By the way, Compo joined us on 16 March 06, message rate averages 1.6 messages per day, that's quite good for a newboy, I'm sure he must have a lot to tell us.
Allan

I sowed a row of AK yesterday as well, no way of getting a great tilth on my clay soil , and if I did it would cap over after a bit of rain and then some sun, so pulled out a drill with a hoe, sowed the seed and covered with compost. Fleece then goes on and does not come off until harvest.

This time though I sowed not in a single line but in a 4" wide drill, should get far more carrots per foot and have reduced need for thinning if my sprinkling was accurate!

Jerry

Tha AK that I sewed in the groun in the gaps that my Nantes and Newmarket varieties have either been eaten by pests, by me or not germinated have not germinated yet, The same seed sewed in £2 - 15" pots (from hypervalue) in compost are now half inch high.

I have today bought some Italian Bericulum seeds and will sew them under fleece, I feel a slug may be the result of my poor germination rate, so will also put grit or bran around the ground seeds. Will sew some in the greenhouse also in guttering, which I tried last month and they w transplanted very well once the compost was really wet they all appeared to take in the new site.

So you can see by my non critical tone that I am more enlightened than you are all maybe aware, as I always say I fully take on what you all say, do you all take on what I say??

I'll just slip this one in, the word is spelt prerogative. a common mistake, it just doesn't usually sound like that. HTH
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Compo, not likely is it mate?