Post by jenn on Jul 27, 2022 1:01:59 GMT
I just moved to a thick clay under grass. Started some raised beds. Just put in seeds for fall crop of lettuce spinach peas etc. and was cussing myself out for forgetting the carrot seed. Then I realised I didn't really want to try to open up my clay soil by growing carrots on 2" of garden center compost on top of 1" grass clippings and leaves mix on top of cardboard on top of several feet of tough clay, so I was glad I hadn't included the carrots. However I have potatoes trying between the 2" compost and 6" leafy mulch, so how could I give carrots that type of depth? A prize winning gardener friend would get his max sized carrots in PVC pipes, so I'm thinking of taking DH's empty 2 l Diet Mt Dew bottles, sawing off top and bottom, building false bottom with paper and setting in a tiny lasagna bed of coarse mulch then compost for some inches above, starting 4-5 carrots in each bottle on the porch, then putting the whole thing on top of the 2" compost in the raised beds once going alright and surrounding it with leaf mulch rather than building an 8" deep dirt bed (since compost NOW is expensive in money and labor, compost and dirt in a year and onward will be ready for deeper filling of raised beds with the good stuff).
Sound like a good idea? I know I'll water more than if I had 8+" dirt, will speed up the surrounding mulch composting process.
Sound like a good idea? I know I'll water more than if I had 8+" dirt, will speed up the surrounding mulch composting process.
