Sow Autumn King 2 Vita Longa seeds on your vegetable plot, in containers or in a VegTrug for big yields of large, stump-rooted main-crop carrots, so impressive and suited to home-growing that it received the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit. Sow Outdoors: April-June sow thinly ½in (1cm) deep in shallow pre-watered drills, in soil that hasn''t been manured in the last 12 months. Keep soil moist at all times
Thin Out: 2-3in (5-8cm) apart. Avoid crushing the leaves as the scent attracts carrot root fly.
Harvest: September-February
Carrots do best on light, stone free, fertile soils. Stores well into winter.Sow Outdoors: April-June sow thinly ½in (1cm) deep in shallow pre-watered drills, in soil that hasn''t been manured in the last 12 months. Keep soil moist at all times.
Thin Out: 2-3in (5-8cm) apart. Avoid crushing the leaves as the scent attracts carrot root fly.
Harvest: September-February
Surround the carrot bed with a barrier of fleece at least 60cm high to keep low flying carrot root fly from your crop.Can remain in the ground over winter
Sow Autumn King 2 Vita Longa seeds on your vegetable plot, in containers or in a VegTrug for big yields of large, stump-rooted main-crop carrots, so impressive and suited to home-growing that it received the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit. Sow Outdoors: April-June sow thinly ½in (1cm) deep in shallow pre-watered drills, in soil that hasn''t been manured in the last 12 months. Keep soil moist at all times
Thin Out: 2-3in (5-8cm) apart. Avoid crushing the leaves as the scent attracts carrot root fly.
Harvest: September-February
Carrots do best on light, stone free, fertile soils. Stores well into winter.Sow Outdoors: April-June sow thinly ½in (1cm) deep in shallow pre-watered drills, in soil that hasn''t been manured in the last 12 months. Keep soil moist at all times.
Thin Out: 2-3in (5-8cm) apart. Avoid crushing the leaves as the scent attracts carrot root fly.
Harvest: September-February
Surround the carrot bed with a barrier of fleece at least 60cm high to keep low flying carrot root fly from your crop.Can remain in the ground over winter