CHAPTER XV 



CARROTS, PARSNIPS, AND BEETROOTS 



Carrots are one of the most satisfactory crops to grow, 

 for they do not take up a great amount of room, they 

 require but little attention, and are most acceptable 

 vegetables for culinary purposes. 



The space selected for their growth should be where 

 the potatoes stood in the previous season which, as the 

 reader will see by reference to the chapter dealing with 

 them, was well manured. This ground thus contains a 

 supply of matured or partially spent manure which is 

 what the carrots require for proper cultivation. Some 

 growers are tempted to dress the ground prior to sowing, 

 hoping that the crop will benefit thereby, but as this 

 leads to forked and otherwise mis-shapen roots it is not a 

 practice to be recommended. 



The soil which carrots prefer is sandy loam. In this 

 they will thrive well, especially if the situation is one that 

 benefits by much sunshine. Where the crop must be 

 grown on heavy ground it is a good plan to make deep 

 holes with a dibble or rod, fill them with a mixture of 

 sand, powdered peat, wood ashes and old soot, and then 

 place a seed or two in each of these compartments. 



The carrot bed must be dug deeply and raked so that 

 the surface is composed of nothing but fine earth. If 

 fair-sized stones and lumps of mould are present the tiny 



