38 GARDENING FOR ALL. 
Sow, at any time when the soil is in a suitable condition 
to receive the seed, succession crops from the beginning of 
April to the middle of July. Early Horn at the beginning of 
April, the main crop (Intermediate) about the third week in 
April; and succession crops of small and juicy carrots (Early 
Nantes) may be obtained by sowing in June or July upon 
soil that has just been cleared of early peas or early potatoes. 
Where very heavy soil exists there is great difficulty in 
obtaining a good crop of carrots. This difficulty may be 
surmounted—and difficulties should only make us more 
determined to succeed in all we undertake—by making holes 
with a ‘dibber” at intervals of six or eight inches apart, 
filling them up with some light soil, and sowing three or four 
seeds thereon (as is often done in the case of parsnips for 
for exhibition purposes; cover with the same kind of soil. 
Carrots generally should be sown in drills, the short rooted 
varieties ten inches apart and the larger kinds twelve and 
fourteen inches apart. They ought to be thinned as soon as 
large enough to handle, from two inches to four inches apart ; 
this will permit of every alternate one being subsequently 
pulled out for use as soon as large enough, and leave room 
for the remainder to attain their full average size. 
At the approach of winter the roots should be taken 
from the ground and stored away in sand, cutting off the tops 
close down to the root before storing them away. I have 
left the roots in the soil during winter without injury, and 
the roots have been as sweet and juicy as when young; but 
the frost in February, 1895—when the thermometer registered 
a temperature below zero—was too severe for them at that 
(my third) trial of carrots under such conditions. 
Early carrots may be obtained by sowing seed on a 
hot bed at the end of January; covering the manure with 
four inches of soil and sowing the seeds in drills four inches 
apart. Also by sowing, in light soil on a warm border, at the 
end of February. 
Dust with soot, evenly and regularly, when the carrots 
are well through the soil, as a preventive to injury from 
slugs and the carrot maggot. 
