Growing Carrots in a cloche can mean that you can have fresh carrots on the table for as much as 9 months of the year. Autumn and winter Carrots can be sown in September and they will be ready to be harvested in November and December.

If you want early carrots you can force them under a cloche by warming the soil in early February and then planting your seeds at the end of February, this will provide a crop of baby carrots in Early April.

Carrots should be sown thinly in rows about 100mm apart, then thinned out leaving the strongest seedlings when they read an inch or so high.

Make sure that your soil is well draining, mix compost and sharp sand into heavier soils. Planting carrots in raised beds, covered by cloches works very well as the soil can be kept light and fluffy.

Cloches provide a huge advantage when growing carrots as they stop the dreaded carrot fly that can blight a good carrot crop.