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Tuesday, January 04, 2022
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Borrowing this diagram from Johnny's seeds.
I had great success with the carrots planted in solarized soil in mid summer. Normally soil pests would eat them. The production was impressive, every bit as good as potatoes. So now I have really high quality carrots in the ground in January which is excellent extra food security.
Beets were looking ok but then rodents started gnawing on them. So if the shtf it would be carrots potatoes and kale and a few winter squshes...
A bit short on oats, apples, and corn this year.
Also short on processed tomatoes, but I would survive.
My one complaint is the Chattenay carrots are too wide at the top, or too small, they arent good snacking. The Nantes carrots are the way to go.
Just thought I'd post what a great success the carrots were... the other trick besides solarizing was I used a pick to make a narrow trench rather than tilling the entire area. I just trenched down as deep as I easily could, just a few inches wide, so overall it was "mostly no till" but there was room for the roots to develop. It worked great. The crowded carrots pushed themselves apart as they grew, the worms backfilled every gap, and really it was less work than rototilling.
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