I will try to sow carrots with the ground hoping to have a minimum of grass!
Hope is of little use in this field: it is normal for weed seeds to rise once you create good leaf conditions (what you do for carrots works for grasses!); You can not prevent it, but you can use the understanding of natural phenomena to get around the problem.
There are two different tactics: false seeding and thermal weeding.
- The false seeding consists of preparing the sowing of carrots, but not to do so; Then, after the weeds have been removed, it is sufficient to superficial and in good weather (= dry) to destroy these herbs and to proceed to the true seeding (the seeds of weeds located deeper in the ground do not have the conditions to raise, as long as the soil is not too worked) .
- After the sowing of the carrots, nothing is lost, the catch-up option is based on the fact that the carrot seeds take longer to lift than those of the weeds; It is therefore necessary to wait until the last moment to destroy the maximum of undesirables, or to the lifting of the first carrots, passing a slight flame blow which suffice to fade these fragile seedlings.
The application of the latter method is conventional, but is likely to be much more problematic in the middle of a carpet of hay!
