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Bear with me while I float some random thoughts across your bows!
1. We're told to "rotate" our crops so that we don't grow the same veg in the same place in consecutive years.
2. "No dig" advice is to mulch the beds annually and plant into the mulch.
3. Many of us don't have access to enough "mulch" to do this.
4. Carrots and other root veg like deep, stone free soil. (I've been growing them in buckets to give them the depth they need but watering can be an issue)
My nutty idea ............
use a portable raised bed (just an outer frame - like a pallet collar) which rests on top of the existing bed. Fill the frame with sieved soil and sow carrots/roots into it.
When the roots have been cropped, move the bed to a new location (?alongside) and repeat the "fill with soil/sow carrots" routine.
Each time you do this, you improve the soil and you only need to create as much mulch/compost as it takes to fill the frame.
I probably haven't explained this very well but I'm going to give it a go using the sieved soil from the carrot buckets emptied into a yard square decking-board frame.
1. We're told to "rotate" our crops so that we don't grow the same veg in the same place in consecutive years.
2. "No dig" advice is to mulch the beds annually and plant into the mulch.
3. Many of us don't have access to enough "mulch" to do this.
4. Carrots and other root veg like deep, stone free soil. (I've been growing them in buckets to give them the depth they need but watering can be an issue)
My nutty idea ............
use a portable raised bed (just an outer frame - like a pallet collar) which rests on top of the existing bed. Fill the frame with sieved soil and sow carrots/roots into it.
When the roots have been cropped, move the bed to a new location (?alongside) and repeat the "fill with soil/sow carrots" routine.
Each time you do this, you improve the soil and you only need to create as much mulch/compost as it takes to fill the frame.
I probably haven't explained this very well but I'm going to give it a go using the sieved soil from the carrot buckets emptied into a yard square decking-board frame.
I sometimes think fine-ness of soil for carrots is overstated.
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