Amazing piece of advice in this month's NVS bulletin from a so-called expert for newcomers to showing for growing. He recommends growing long carrots and parsnips in growbags laid on their ends !!! And how did he propose to do that exactly? Drench them in viagra solution so that they stand perfectly upright? What a clown!
He also says he uses all his old composts from his pot plants and tubs for his long root mixes the next season. I know it's extra expense but you should ALWAYS use new compost for mixes so that they are free from pest and disease. Following this guy's advice is an absolute recipe for disaster and would be bound to fail, therefore putting any newcomer off for life. What a shame.
I remember once at a show listening to some lentil-eating Greenham Common peace hippy type woman explaining to a circle of friends that my winning long carrots would have been grown by earthing them up as they grew. I had to intervene (much to her annoyance) and explain how it was really done. I couldn't stand by and let them have visions of 5 foot high piles of soil like chimneys! A little knowledge is a dangerous thing!
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I would read that article if I ever received anything from the nvs society that I paid for.. then again with the recession why should they send me something I paid for its only money. I even grow my parsnips in rotted down £50 notes, but they didn't print my recipe.
5ft mounds lol.. people always say to me, gee you must have soft ground..uh huh.
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