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Let's plant our Onwinds carrot seeds.
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Welcome to Gardening with Ben. And today
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we're going to be sewing our Unwinds
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carrot seeds. These are called
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resistorly F1, which resist the carrot
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fly, which can damage crops. And these
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are actually on a seed tape, so they're
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perfectly spaced for when planting
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directly into the soil, and you
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shouldn't have to do much thinning. Now,
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if you've been watching my videos
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recently, we have built so many raised
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beds in this poly tunnel. We're wanting
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to grow more and more stuff throughout
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the year, all year round, and hopefully
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earlier and later in the season because
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it'll be warmer in here. So, we're going
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to start and try and grow some carrots.
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Now, I've never had any success with
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growing carrots in the 20 years in my a
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lotment. So, this could be the year that
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I have successful carrots. If I get
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successful carrots, everything else
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can't just go to pot. I just want some
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successful carrots. So, there's
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approximately 4 meters of tape on here.
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So, we're going to give this a try and
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get sewing these. So, let's see how well
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So, this is the rais bed that I'm going
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to do them in. It's quite deep, so
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hopefully we get some decent sized
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carrots. There's no black membrane
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underneath it. So, if they need to get a
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bit further, they can do, but they'll
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probably fork if they hit the soil
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because it'll probably be hard and stony
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under there. But, this is nice, good
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compost. So, we're going to put like a
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divot in it like that. And then we're
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going to put the seed tape in and then
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cover it back with soil.
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So, that's what the seed tape looks
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like. It's like tissue paper, so it'll
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dissolve pretty easy once it gets
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watered in. And yeah, you can see the
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seeds in the paper, but yeah, we need to
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cover them over and then give them a
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good water. We need to label where they
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are as well, so we know where they're
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going to pop up once they start growing.
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But we're not doing them too deep. We're
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going to add a thin layer of soil over
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the top of them, and they should be
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So that's them all covered over. So the
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next big job is obviously to give them a
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nice good watering to get them growing.
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Fingers crossed. We just obviously need
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it to warm up to help them germinate. We
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put all the labels in where the rows
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are. So hopefully we know where they're
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all going to pop up and see how well
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So there we are. We're giving it a good
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Obviously, it'll need a good watering
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over the next few days as obviously it's
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pretty dry underneath with the compost,
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but over the few weeks, it'll get pretty
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wet. And hopefully the carrots will
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start growing within a couple of weeks.
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That's the plan. And then we'll be
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harvesting them pretty soon. They
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shouldn't take too long in the poly
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tunnel once the heat starts to warm up
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in May. And we should get some good
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crops. Will this year be the first year
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for me to get carrots? We'll just have
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So, make sure you drop us a follow to
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stay up to date with how well these
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carrots get on and see if we're
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harvesting them and get some great crops
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this year down at the plot. So, until
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next time everyone, remember, keep
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smiling, keep shining, and keep
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gardening. We're Ben, everyone.
