Carolyn Herriot's carrot method

Dear Gardeners,

There's a local organic gardener called Carolyn Herriot, and her blog is GREAT!!
The above is her method of growing carrots. (click on above drawing to make bigger).
I thought it might be useful to those gardeners who are currently "smothering" their winter rye, and have to wait five weeks to sow. The trick is that you can start carrots in four inch pots, and then transplant them later into your allotment bed.
Cool eh?

Here's the original blog post by Herriot.
And here are her instructions:

A Nifty Trick For Carrots

Fill a four-inch pot with a sterile seeding mix
Sprinkle 12 to 15 carrot seeds evenly across the top. Cover lightly.
As the seedlings establish, feed them weekly with liquid fish fertilizer.
When the foliage has reached four inches high, remove the entire rooted plug, and plant it in the garden without disturbing the roots. The scent of carrot foliage attracts the carrot rust fly. Not thinning the carrots avoids attracting these pests.
Plant plugs in blocks six inches apart in all directions. Your carrots will now outgrow the weeds.
Harvest the entire bunch of baby carrots or leave the carrots to grow on and harvest them singly at a larger size.
TIP: Mulch the carrot patch with coffee grounds. The strong aroma of drying coffee confuses the female carrot rust fly and stops her from laying her eggs on the carrots.

Other cool posts of Carolyn's that might interest you:

Mason Bee Care

Seeding winter veggies (great method for July!)

Artichokes, Ornamental *and* Edible

Best,
Jen