planting Carrots

[little_miss]

ok, i would like to grow some carrots(think thats how you spell it) and i don't have any soil in my garden. just gravel! it'sot our house either so we can't really change anything. can anyone advise me on growing carrots in pots? big pots?

[Kos]

Carrots will grow in almost anything. The specimen growers do actually grow them in individual pots (even barrels for the really serious ones!) Gravel will be no good but surely you can stretch to 99p for a Growbag? Just avoid using fertilsiers especially manure as this causes the carrots to become 'deformed'

[mullein]

get your big pots make sure you have drainage holes in the bottom fill them up with potting compost . space your seeds out cover with a fine layer  of compost water and away you go,, you can grow allmost everything in containers outside, tomatoes cucumbers onions leeks, the tomatoes and cucumbers will have to wait till the frost has passed usually about mid may in england unless you live south then it will be sooner, mullein

[little_miss]

Thanks you so much for your help.