catjac1975
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Re the weeding part. They only need to be carefully weeded once. Then mulch them with grass clippings and they will be as weed free as they need to be. If you can glue a micro size seed onto paper, one at a time, you can weed them once. A colossal waste of time with out the weeding. Plant a smaller row so weeding is not such an impossibility. My garden is definitely not weed free, especially at this time of year. But things are weeded enough for good production. What vermin????
SuperChemicalGirl said:Here's what I did with my carrots after 2 years of failure and did great this year. In fact, I'm fighting the vermin for my carrots.
Or you get no made carrot seed tape out of carrot seeds, flour/water mixture for glue and paper towels.
http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/uploads/6992_seed_tape.jpg
Made a tiny little trench for them in the garden, laid the seed tape in, covered very lightly with dirt and then kept them watered. In fact, I hate to admit this, but we got snow and insanely cold weather right after I planted them and it took FOREVER for them to come up but they did great. They would have done even better had I actually kept them weeded... but for my lazy way of gardening, it was good!