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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

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