am I too early ?

I have planted some carrot and onion, but the mornings have been white with frost up here. Today it stayed at 6C all day. Will they die ?

 

Planted or sown Ming?
If you've sown carrot seed it will just sit and snooze until things warm up (mine are sown). Onion sets (planted) should be ok now.

 

onion sets and carot seeds, yes. ok I can forget them then and get a fright when they come up ! LOL ta

 

My carrot seeds are in, but frost wise we've not seen any for a while now.

 

you can never tell when last frost will come though.

but......i'm sowing carrots and onions now could i ask which variety please?

 

"could i ask which variety please?"

I grew "Nantes 2" last year. Very tasty! I think there is an Early Nantes too perhaps ?

 

I believe my carrots are nantes early, not 100% sure though will check when i get home, my memory is short just recently!!!

 

I think the whole Nantes Carrot thing is blinking confusing. I found

Early Nantes 2 from Fothergills, Unwins, T&M, Suttons Organic and Suttons Allan Titchmarsh thingie.

Early Nantes 5 from Suttons.

Early Nantes from Kings, Tapestry and Sarah Raven

So what's the difference between Nantes 2 and Nantes 5 then? :(

Not to mention a T&M 'Frubund Nantes (Fast Crop)' quote "Carrot Nantes Frubund is the first genuine autumn sowing carrot, exceptionally early and cold resistant. It will give you carrots in your garden in the spring when nobody else has them and when they are fetching high prices in the shops. A very important autumn sowing vegetable breakthrough."

Blast, I'm going to have to get some of them to try ...

 

I have a feeling mine are suttons nantes 2..... i'm def going to have to check when i get home!

The last ones you mention for autumn sowing sound good, will have to check those out! :gnthb: Thanks for the tip off

 

"suttons nantes 2"

I couldn't find any Suttons nantes 2 in the shop ... so I bought their Alan Titchmarsh ones instead - which are Organic .... ahhh, just checked and that's what I had last year as well.

All I can say is they were very tasty!

Just got a delivery from T&M this morning ... if I had only known that I needed some Fast Crop Carrots when I placed the order