What to fill my 60cm depth raised bed with?

aliasojo

Zazen999 wrote: »

However, carrots should have been sow direct not transplanted; so once you have added more bags and have a nice flat sowing surface, I'd sow another row now and again in a month or so for a continuous crop.

Oh heck. My carrots were plug plants which were stuck in small temporary pots, then put in a window box then then moved to the raised bed last night. No wonder they're looking sorry for themselves, if they don't like being transplanted. Oh I'm so bad at this. :rotfl:

Thanks. :beer:

mutley74

aliasojo wrote: »

Oh heck. My carrots were plug plants which were stuck in small temporary pots, then put in a window box then then moved to the raised bed last night. No wonder they're looking sorry for themselves, if they don't like being transplanted. Oh I'm so bad at this. :rotfl:

Thanks. :beer:

ah i have about 10 carrot seedlings to plant....they will be getting too big for the seedling tray, can they not be transplanted with care?

Zazen999

aliasojo wrote: »

Oh heck. My carrots were plug plants which were stuck in small temporary pots, then put in a window box then then moved to the raised bed last night. No wonder they're looking sorry for themselves, if they don't like being transplanted. Oh I'm so bad at this. :rotfl:

Thanks. :beer:

They don't like being transplanted as the tap root is the one that makes the carrot into a carrot - and if they are grown in plugs the tap root turns as it reaches the bottom, thus giving non-carrot shaped carrots. Also, if you catch them before they turn, then it is very hard to get a totally straight root as you transplant.

As a matter of interest, how much were they and how many were in there? And where did you get them from?

aliasojo

Those were part of the Rocket Garden kit thing we won. The carrots don't have any kind of large root, just loads of tiny skinny small roots.

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ALIBOBSY

Zazen999 wrote: »

NO to the carpet; just put the bed onto the grass, add the topsoil and plant up. No need to worry then about chemicals or trying to remove it in the future.

Our first bed was just done like this, but I found the grass/weeds grew up through the new soil very quickly. Our newest beds have weed liner underneath or had the turf lifted first (don't throw stick it upside down on the compost heap).

ali x