Your comments and tips

23 Oct 12, Liz (New Zealand - temperate climate)

The idea is to retain moisture while the seeds are germinating

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26 Oct 12, peter merriman (Australia - temperate climate)

Thanks for that Liz, I also found out that watering runs off the side of the board and not directly onto the seeds.

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24 Mar 13, Ian (Australia - temperate climate)

HI Peter... anything that can act as a heavy mulch to keep the ground moist should do. Hessian bags are great as they can retain moisture themselves and keep the soil underneath moist as well. You can take them off every now and again to check on the progress of your seed(ling)s.

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02 Oct 12, Cheryl (Australia - temperate climate)

I have a lovely crop of carrots when I picked a couple last night one was only small and the other one was a good size about 15cm but both very pal orange and when I cut them they had a large pal green area in the middle and they tasted bitter as if not yet ready. Does anyone know why they are not sweet and bright orange.

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05 Aug 12, elizabth duncan (Australia - temperate climate)

which soil should i use in a large pot for the carrots. do they like a lot of sun. i have a very sunny spot on my front verandah?

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06 May 12, warshu (Australia - temperate climate)

I planted some carrots around two months ago, but they all eaten by slugs and snails. any tips to protect my carrots?

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22 Apr 13, Ferran (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Blue tongs and other lizards make them welcome, very welcome. Another tip is crushing all your egg shells after roasting them in the oven. spread over the soil it deters snails and slugs as it gets into there skin and pricks them.

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03 Jun 12, adam (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

I use the snail pellets made from iron Chelates, no poison at all. None of that nasty Metaldehyde, because I have a dog. Completely harmless to everything except snails and slugs.

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22 Nov 12, Cat (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Hi Adam, I was interested in your comment on the snail pellets as my greens are getting destroyed by snails at the moment and I don't use any poisons in the garden. I thought you might be interested in this article which suggests that iron chelate snail pellets do indeed have the potential to be poisonous - hostalibrary.org/firstlook/RRIronPhosphate (you might need to add www on the begining and htm on the end - had to delete them to get the post up). I've been having some success with coffee grounds, but the 'beer traps' have been a complete fail.

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17 May 12, hz (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Here's an off-the-wall idea I read recently. Crush strong peppermints to a powder and sprinkle along emerging carrots/parsnips/radishes. The peppermint smell confuses the snails/slugs/bugs that love the new growth. I haven't tried this myself, but I am going to test it out, should be very easy to prove if it works by doing this to one row but not another! Good Luck !

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