John Dijkstra

If you want to freeze off your ass, Northern Spain is great.

However, an acre will not be enough. You will also need a lot of land for growing biomass or trees for firewood.

After doing some more research, I have found that only Oxheart and Chantenay Red varieties seem to be split-proof and short.

Still, if anybody can answer my questions that would be great. For now I shall assume that a trial of the Oxheart, Chantenay Red and Spanish Morada as maincrop, with some smaller quantities of the others is needed to get my answer.

I am particularly interested;

- If any carrot should be dryland proof (the largest amount of seeds I have are Nantes and Berlikumer seeds, the last one is a winter carrot)

- Why Chantenay specifically shows up as a dryland tested variety (just the most popular one in the US, or is there a reason other than that?)

Hi,

I live in an area where during the carrot growing season, there is an average monthly rainfall of 39 mm.

Have found an ebook/research document showing the yields of Chantenay carrots in dryland conditions, in an area with similar climate in the US. This sounds promising (found on google books Dry-land Gardening at the Northern Great Plains Field Station, Mandan, N. Dak)

However, what I would like to know is if the following seeds which I already have should have similar drought tolerance as compared to the chantenay variety? Or am I better of purchasing chantenay carrot seeds? I am farming on sandy soil. Thank you


- Nantes
- Berlikumer
- Flakkeese
- Spanish Morada
- Purple Haze
- Malbec
- Purple Sun
- Red Samurai