Carrot bed question.

  I got the Johnies catalog.  What a good catalog.  And I see they sell
burdock, Which I buy quite a bit of. Its difficult to find.   Their growing
suggestion is to grow them in deep carrot soil.   Or a raised bed to make
harvesting easier.

What is deep carrot soil. ??   Does it mean I have to dig a pit and fill it
with soil.

 nospam@nospam.none says...

Just curious but which variety of burdock do you buy?

Standard Arctium Lappa or Gobo?

 @yahoo.com says...

That is, Gobo, Arctium Lappa (Takinogawa Long) for instance.

http://www.richters.com/Web_store/web_store.cgi?product=X8370
&show=&prodclass=Herb_and_Vegetable_Seeds&cart_id687380.13718

 

  I cant answer that  until i go bacvk to Chinatown. . i just threw some
packaged away.  I have ordered dried from an asian store , And i go to China
town to get packaged , flavored burdock, Sorry.

 On 12/15/10 8:35 AM, sometime in the recent past DogDiesel posted this:

I just looked at Phorbin's link and it strikes me funny that seeds and young
plants are actually sold. Not that anyone would want them, that I can see,
but they are hardy from zones 2 through 10, they are a bane to anyone with a
long-haired dog or cat. Where do you live that you can't locate some wild
ones to collect seeds from? When my dog brings the burrs (seeds) home, I put
them in the fire so they won't grow in my yard. lol Reminds me of when I was
a kid and we would take our Irish Setter pheasant hunting in NJ, USA - that
poor dog would come home with a pound of burrs stuck in it's hair and I'd
spend hours grooming him after. Good luck.

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