Carrots and parsnips

One of the raised beds is devoted to carrots and parsnips. The parsnips were pre-chitted earlier in the year and then grown to seedling size in toilet roll centres. These were then planted into the raised bed a couple of weeks ago.

At the other end we put an extra layer of compost and sprinkled it with carrot seeds before lightly raking them over, known as broadcast sowing.

Well today they are all doing quite well.