A question re carrots.
When I thin them, do I discard the thinned/ or can I re plant them ?

What a bore thinning anything so small. I might make my own seed tapes for the next carrot crop! Spaced far apart..

you could try replanting them but generally they don’t do well.

bluegreen said:

you could try replanting them but generally they don’t do well.

Bugga. ok. Seed tape it is then for next time, my own brand that won’t need thinning.

yeah they don’t transport too well…

I used to mix them with heaps of fine sand, so that they didn’t come up to thickly…

I’ve never thinned carrots. Yes mixing the seed with sand or something will spread the seed but it is a knack of only sowing enough.

When thinning carrots .. eat them. ;)

you can transplant carrots but they have to be so small that you nearly need tweezers and there needs to be lots of aqua about.

roughbarked said:

I’ve never thinned carrots. Yes mixing the seed with sand or something will spread the seed but it is a knack of only sowing enough.

When thinning carrots .. eat them. ;)

you can transplant carrots but they have to be so small that you nearly need tweezers and there needs to be lots of aqua about.

Thanks RB. I have a problem throwing out good seedlings. I’ve thinned some. But I will do the home made seed tape thing next time. It would be fiddly I know, but better to sit at the table spacing seeds onto a tape than crouching low to get every 2nd one out of the dirt.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

I’ve never thinned carrots. Yes mixing the seed with sand or something will spread the seed but it is a knack of only sowing enough.

When thinning carrots .. eat them. ;)

you can transplant carrots but they have to be so small that you nearly need tweezers and there needs to be lots of aqua about.

Thanks RB. I have a problem throwing out good seedlings. I’ve thinned some. But I will do the home made seed tape thing next time. It would be fiddly I know, but better to sit at the table spacing seeds onto a tape than crouching low to get every 2nd one out of the dirt.

use a salt shaker or rather one of those herb bottles with the larger holes in the lid.

forget the tape idea – that would be incredibly tedious to make the tape. sprinkle the seeds really sparsely and come back along the row sprinkling a second time.

i let them grow to an edible size – say 50- 75mm – and then use then as mini carrots or feed them to animals. so when i harvest them i do thinning rather than starting at one end of the row. ms pepe does tend to do the thinning tho’.
we have a juicer and carrot juice is mixed with practically all other veges – so any deformed carrots (due to close spacing) can be juiced.