carrots, strawberry and pea's help

hiya all, just a few pics. would like a bit of help. just want to know if there doing what they should be really, thanks

CARROTS:
THESE HAVE REALLY SHOT UP THIS LAST FEW WEEKS, DO I NEED TO THIN THEM AT THIS STAGE OR LATER ON??

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STRAWBERRYS:
THESE HAVE STARTED TO SHOW FRUIT, STILL QUITE SMALL BUT I HAVE FAITH. DOES IT NEED TRIMMING BACK, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

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PEA POD'S:
WANTED TO HAVE SOMETHING FROM MY CHILDHOOD MEMORYS, PICKING PEAS FROM MY GRANDADS ALLOTMENT WAS A GOOD PAST TIME, ANYTHING I SHOULD BE DOING?

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I FEED THE STRAWBERRYS ONCE A WEEK WITH TOMATO FEED (HEARD IT WAS GOOD FOR THEM)

BOTH PEAS AND CARROTS GET LEFT TO OWN DEVICES, APART FROM SUPPORTING THE PEAS.

ALL AND ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT THANKS EVERYONE

 

strawberries look good to me. Give them a feed and leave the foliage on till after they have fruited.

 

thanks, i add half a cap of feed to 5ltr of water and just pour down the centre pipe, but the top ones are alot bigger than the bottom so im thinking bottom ones cant be getting much feed for some reason

 

Stawberries...... look great.. don't do anything.. just water..I'm not sure how much to feed them

Carrots.. thin them now.. and next time don't sow nearly as thickly!

Peas... it's a bit late for them, but you might be lucky to get some before winter!

 

thanks, yeah i thought that about carrots, how thin do i go that my concern. am i right in thinking every bit of leaf is a carrot??

 

Thin about half an inch apart and then do another thinning in six weeks or so but this time harvest and eat the thinnings.
Each carrot at present will have two or three leaves. Just pull up a pinch of them and have a close look.

Tomato feed (high in phosphates and good for fruit development and ripening) is good for strawberries, but only after the fruit has set. Before the fruit sets a more balanced fertiliser is better.

Your peas are VERY late indeed, but you might be lucky. If the weather turns frosty you could try moving them into a sheltered position or covering with fleece.

 

so when im thinning my carrots how many am i leaving per half inch approx??

cos at the moment they are very very clumped together, i pinched maybe 50 out in one load and still didnt make a difference to how it looked, lol. thanks dave

 

I use tomato feed and the dosage according to instructions-I haven't ever used anything else with strawberries tbh so as far as any other type of feed-I don't know.

 

You should aim for ONE per half inch. If you think about the size of a mature carrot, that will give you an idea as to how much space they need. You can of course grow them closer and slowly thin out in stages and eat the thinnings.

 

I sowed 2 lots pf carrots and i keep thinning them gradually further apart , but, i want my carrots tiny, so i pull out the largest i can see, with a few peas , cook together, they are so tender :yho:

 

So the fact that my little girl keeps pulling, washing and eating them is a good thing lol.

 

now how is the best way to thin the carots out, cos when ive tried pulling them out it loosens all the soil up and ends up pulling nearly everything out, can i cut them just at the base, or do i need to pull everything out???

 

ok well i have thinned the carrots drastically, what do you think??

From this:
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To this:
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They look fine, but, next year save yourself some work and sow them thinly,you haven`t got to sow the whole packet, sow 1/4 then a month or so later sow another 1/4 and so on ,:gnthb:
That way you have them coming at different times (succesional sowing) and as each tub or bucket comes along you can thin them and eat what you thin.:D
What did you do with the thinnings :cnfs:

 

i gave the thinnings to a few neighbours, and i planted rest in clumps in the field at bottom of me, over grown with long grass, just thought better than throwing them, ill leave them to the elements and see what happens. thanks for the advice, ill do that next year.