Bed recipe · field-tested

Summer carrot + Radishes + Yellow onion + Autumn carrot

Morot + Rädisor + Gul lök + Machesallat

Grown for real in my garden in 2016 — first written up in the log.

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How the bed is laid out

Carrots in the outer rows and yellow onion in the middle rows.

Three harvests from the same bed in the Needs Less quarter: winter-sown early carrots and radishes first, then onions in the middle, then autumn carrots for storage.

In this bed

Summer carrot Radishes Yellow onion

The season, month by month

	Apr	May	Jun	Aug	Sep	Oct
Summer carrot direct-sown		S		H	H	H
Radishes
Yellow onion direct-sown	S		T
Autumn carrot direct-sown		S		H	H	H

Sow — indoors or direct, per row note Transplant Harvest

A friendly reminder: every garden plays by its own rules. Zones, soil, weather and a hundred small things decide what works — so this is how I did it and what worked for me, not a promise. Try, learn, adjust, try again.. that's half the fun anyway.

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