Organic Carrot: Rodelika KS

Description

Organic Carrot: Rodelika KS. Daucus carota.

Carrots are a wonderful vegetable to grow. This new variety is newly bred organically from the start. They have a strong, sweet aromatic taste, they’re long with smooth skin and blunt tips.

How to grow:

Sow successionally, you can start some under protection in March, starting sowings outside from May. Your seed bed needs to have a fine tilth, the seedlings won’t do well pushing past even little stones. Sow thinly and shallowly, 0.5cms into light loamy soil, free of stones and not recently manured.

Problem solving:

Slugs and weeds go hand in hand, slugs eat both leaves and roots and carrots grow poorly in competition with weeds.
Carrot root fly: Flies twice a year, early May and September. If you’re successionally planting you can still avoid the root fly. Smell seems to play a part in them finding your carrots. We plant our onions and leeks beside our carrots and this seems to help, also the adults fly about 90cms above the ground, put up netting like the green windbreak around the crop helps keep them off.

Favourite ways to eat them:

The roots are full of flavour, vitamins and minerals. The leaves are also great in salads and stews.

Cultural history:

The crop wild relative of this plant is native to Ireland, Daucus carota. It’s woody tap root won’t be tasty at all, it’s taken plant breeders over 1,000’s of years to bring us the carrots we have today.

Approx 800-1,000 seeds per gram.