If you grow your own carrots at home, are you also growing carrots from carrot tops? This concept of regrowing crops from scraps is easy and quick, and means you can get a sometimes second crop from ...
However, the carrot top has lots of life left in it, and it will produce leaves and, eventually, flowers and seeds if you give it a bit of time and TLC. Whether you plan to grow carrot tops in ...
pull out a good clump and firm back the compost to let the rest of the pot grow on undisturbed. You may need to add a little more compost to the pot to fill the gap. Carrot fly can be a real problem.
Cooked or raw, sliced or grated, it seems we cannot get enough of the carrot. It has topped a league table of Britain's favourite vegetables, beating the potato into second place. Overall ...
Carrots and parsnips grow best in light, sandy soil so if your soil is heavy clay, stony, chalky or doesn't drain particularly well, concentrate on the maincrop, short-root types which cope better ...