Unwins - Carrot Seeds - Nantes 2

Unwins - Carrot SeedsNantes 2

Grow your own carrots at home with this popular carrot variety. The Nantes 2 carrot is usually the summers first crop producing juicy, sweet carrots. When sowing these carrot seeds, mix the seeds with silver sand to make sowing easier and with less need for thinning. You can plant carrot seeds alongside spring onions, leeks, mint, marigolds. The scent of these can repel carrot fly.

Key Information:

• Excellent colour and texture
• Long stump roots
• Perfect with your first pick of peas

Advice & Tips:

• Sow seeds thinly 1cm deep in pre-watered rows & cover with a little soil. Allow 15cm between rows. Carrots do best in light stone free soils.
• As seedlings develop, thin initially to 2cm apart. Later thin again to about 5cm apart. Thinnings are delicious cooked as finger carrots or raw in salads. Thinning is best kept to a minimum as crushed leaves attract carrot root fly. Keep soil moist after thinning.
• Protect early sowings with fleece.

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