Carrots and turnips

Nan Cramb

Over 50 years dad has never been able to grow either successfully in the garden pests and disease seem to get them every time.  Can they be grown in potato bags?  We don't need many but do like garden fresh rather than travel weary veg when we can get them

Thanks

Nan

Dovefromabove

Hello Nan   

Given that you're in Fife, are we talking about what we Southerners call Swedes (yellow fleshed) or turnips (white flesh)?

As for carrots, I've grown lovely Chantenay carrots in containers in multi-purpose compost. They're not huge carrots, but the flavour is great.

Info here http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/digin/vegetables/chantenay_carrot.shtml 

allium2

I've never had much success with carrots as they never seem to grow straight - even when just planted in mp compost.  

Dovefromabove

Allium, try growing stump rooted varieties like chantenay 

Nan Cramb

Thanks I do mean swedes.  I will try in bags and report back

 

Duncan Blackwell

I've grown decent veg in a bog standard black dustbin, fill with compost, add seeds and forget.

artjak

I always grow carrots in 4 very large plastic pots; just harvested the last ones 2 weeks ago. The height of the pots mean that carrot root fly don't get to them plus I only use spent tomato compost mixed with sharp sand, so no large stones.

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jools6

for best results we grow ours in a large tub with soil or compost with 25 per cent sharp sand and we have had some corkers.