Régine wrote: But I understand that most of your plantings go through transplanting.
For carrot seedlings, my soil being very heavy, I always made a furrow and filled with a mixture of terror and sand. I will try the same for this year.
Without wanting to disturb the inter-Belgian exchange, I will just take the liberty of answering the question of transplanting: I believe there are several of us doing most of our cultures with transplanting, quite simply because for my part
1) I have trouble with direct seedlings, because I have a lot of organic matter on my sandy soil, and therefore all the time also matter at a stage of decomposition, which makes germination difficult, or so material, which does not lend itself to it, such as ground material
2) According to our different climate, it is one of the safest way to control temperature, humidity and soil pest access
3) for carrots transplanting turns out to be complicated and therefore direct sowing, there I have one in progress it has emerged, I have the impression that it works (mixed sowing of carrots and radish). Obviously, being on sandy soil, I won't add more sand, but even in heavy soil, don't underestimate the carrots, it's coustaud, I have family with a vegetable garden in clay soil, they just make a carrot seed-sand mixture, to have a softer seedling, and their carrots are beautiful every year.
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, well I'm joking, but if there are tufts of grass or other weeds, you just have to cut it all down, cutting very short, I did it with a brush cutter, and you leave everything in place, it already gives you a little organic matter. You will still have regrowth, but that controls well, if your cover is thick enough.
, do you do the same in your greenhouse?
