Carrot Royal Chantenay Organic
Carrot Royal Chantenay Organic. Royal Chantenay, produces fantastic carrots that taste better than anything store bought. They have a sweet, crisp, nice flavour and they are especially excellent for heavy, clay-dominated soils. Royal Chantenay is considered an excellent all around carrot by combining excellent qualities such as flavour, shallow soil growth, and storage ability.
Cultivation Advice Carrot Royal Chantenay Organic
- Dig or till the carrot bed deeply when the soil is on the dry side to avoid making lumps.
- Work the soil to a fine texture 15-25cm (6-10 in.)
- deep to allow the carrot roots to grow long and shapely.
- Avoid freshly-manured soil, which may produce hairy,
- rough roots and will cause forks and splits;
- Sow seed thinly in rows, 1cm (1/2 in.) deep, 30-40cm (12-16 in.)
- between the rows as soon as the danger of hard frost has passed.
- Try to get about 4 seeds per 2cm (1 in.).
- Thin to 16-20 carrots per 30 cm (1ft.) for fresh eating and 6-10 carrots per 30 cm (1ft.)
- for mature crops, depending on the root size you want,
- and keep weeded and watered.
- Dispose of thinned seedlings to avoid attracting Carrot Fly.
- As they grow, push soil up over any exposed roots to prevent a green shoulder.
