Carrot and onion seedlings

monkeynic · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:13 pm Post subject: Carrot and onion seedlings

Ive got all my carrots and onions as seedling in my utility room, thinking about planting them out this week but wanted to know if i will need to harden them first like with my sprouts and cabbages? Can any one help please?

michael brenock · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:40 pm Post subject:

wait a few more days before putting out the onions. harden them off even for a day or two. As for carrots I still maintain they are impossible to transplant successfully. Try growing some under glass or plastic where they are to mature without transplanting.
michael brenock horticultural advisor (retired)

monkeynic · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:44 pm Post subject:

Thanks, I managed to transplant some last year and they were fine, really fiddly though. Do you think they would be ok to go out yet or should I wait and harden them off and do them and the onions together? planning to put them both in the same bed to try and combat carrot and onion fly.

cathd · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:50 pm Post subject:

I would harden both off.
I did this last year, but be careful of spacings if you have onions and carrots together. I put the onions too close to the carrots and the onions didn't get enough light and were very spindly. But at least I didn't have a problem with carrot fly.

monkeynic · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks.

Will make sure to space them further than the spacings give inn book to make sure. Think I'll try putting them in y unheated green house for a few days to harden them up, can't leave them out in the open as my kittens like the trays of seedlings to dig. Sad

Lius · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:38 pm Post subject: Transplanting Carrots

Hi monkeynic,

I had had great sucess with transplanted B&Q Carrots (roundy ones) last year apart from a bit of carrot fly damage.

This year I have started 1/2 of my Carrots + some Parsnips seeds in trays indoors, they are very small yet but they would not have even been sown outdoors yet with the cold weather.

I will plant the 2nd half of the crop as seed in the ground with the transplanted ones when the weather warms.

if I have any problem with the transplants I can re-seed outdoors and have a (later) staggered crop as it would have been if I did not start the 1st half indoors.

cathd · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 12:08 am Post subject:

And indoors the slugs can't get them...