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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Arg, they don't grow "worth" prunes <g>  See, that's what happens when DH is 
hollering in one ear and youngest is hollering in the other and I'm trying 
to type at the same time.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>


> 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.
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>
>
>
> > Thanks, Lynda. I've read that carrots are 'particular' so have been leery
> > but would really like to give it a solid try this year. Sounds like you
> > don't have a specific bed for carrots then but just put them wherever. I
> > had
> > not thought of your method. What variety do you grow? I had hoped a 
> > couple
> > of people would pick up on this thread.
> >
> > Lisa
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