[Homestead] Carrots
EarthNSky
erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Tue Jan 13 12:20:02 EST 2009
Lynda wrote:
> Well, I'm sure they are VERY particular and fussy and don't grow with
> prunes, at least for me unless I let the kids grow them or I simply plant a
> bucket load of seeds and just ignore them. Also, don't give up. Mine
> germinate when they darn well please. I'll plant them and wait and wait and
> wait, some years, and then when I give up, sometimes a month or two after
> they are supposed to have germinated and suddenly I see the little lacy fern
> like bits of green showing up. That's when I gave up doing them in their
> own bed and started just planting them any ol' where.
>
> We plant Red Core Chantenay, Little Fingers, Half-longs, and Danvers. This
> year we're going to try the Tonda di Parigi. I've never had much luck
> growing the really long carrots.
>
I've done the Danvers Half Long, too....forgot about that.
Do you like the RCC? Maybe you were the one who recommended it to me?
--
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve
the problems of the human race"
~ Calvin Coolidge
More information about the Homestead
mailing list