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Without resorting to google or any other search engines, magazines or catalogues, have a guess how many seeds per acre are recommended be sown for Chantennay carrots to get the optimum yield.

My seed packet contains a couple of hundred I suppose so will not go very far at all

I will post the answer later, but one thing is for sure, we really get ripped of when buying seed.

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I should imagine many thousand. Never seen a field of carrots growing - must be quite a sight

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Rip off - Probably, but bear in mind the packaging, marketing, distribution, etc. costs for a £1 packet of seeds, against a bag full of seeds (about 25000?) for an acre!

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A million?

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i;d guess 100,000 but no idea really......like shirl never seen a field of carrots where do they grow them? & what do they do about the dreaded carrot fly?

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an acre is a big bit of land, so I will guess 5 million. standing by to be proved an idiot

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Wish I could type (& count) -

about 2500000 (2 & a half million) - It's a guess!!

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Who wants to grow an acre of carrots ??? Maybe it's time for seed companies to get real and sell in quantities suitable for real people.

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Norfolk.

Irrigated fields, in long beds spaced for machinery.

Got stuck behind a tractor towing a trailerload once for about ten miles, all the way past Mildenhall.

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Its for Farmers Alice, not us types of peeps,

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not that you swore silently as you counted every mile

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No, but the people behind us and our caravan probably did.

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Phew.....10 million???? ...bound to be more- an acre is a lot of land!!!

I can imagine a one hundredweight bag might do it- how many seeds in that????

Actually its

3,500,000

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updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

well at least I was close (after the typo!)

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That's a lot of seed!
You were nearer than me npk

Is that what you have to order- or is it by weight piglet???

Can you imagine sitting counting them Wonder how much that bag costs?

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Do you think that's going to be the next question?????

No, I think the next question is going to be. "How big is an acre?"

I mean, has anyone actually seen one? I haven't. I have no idea how big an acre is if truth be known.

Or a hectare for that matter, never seen one of those either.

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It's( an acre) just over 200ft by 200 ft Wayne....can you imagine 200 ft????

Something like this...

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Where do you find them Wayne?! Brilliant!

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Shirley

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Ha!!
I was actually trying to imagine how many of Beefy's trucks you'd need nose to tail!!!!