kidsmoke Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 If you love long, straight homegrown carrots, well, wrong thread. Because what I specialized in this winter was throwing some carrots in an empty pot and then letting Mother Nature do everything else. Mother Nature does a crappy job of thinning carrots. So yesterday was beautiful and sunny and while out wandering in the yard, I stopped to check the carrots. See photo one. 😂 So I thought I'd better pull the clumps. See photo two! What a carrot! After cleanup (photo 3) I couldn't decide if I should try to separate it, or just have it bronzed. Many grueling surgical minutes later, I had successfully separated my carrots, photo 4. I do not recommend using my method to grow carrots unless growing them for your own amusement. 😊 They tasted great in last night's frittata though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
theashtraysays Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 All's well that ends well. Bravo!!! #wouldeat Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 I always grow carrots, but stink at the thinning, also. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
theashtraysays Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 OK, Dana wants to know how you did that. Just carrot tops? Chunks of carrots like you do with potatoes? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted February 19, 2021 Author Share Posted February 19, 2021 I had an empty pot in the garden (still had dirt) that my bedroom looked out on. One day I was at our local nursery and I saw they had plantings of tiny carrots in those 6-well pony paks, so I brought them home and stuck them into that pot. They weren't any too thinned to begin with in their container, and I only thinned a bit and then basically forgot about them, so... They just sorta did their own thing! Calvino, thinning is murder, amirite? Plus it's excruciatingly boring. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted February 19, 2021 Author Share Posted February 19, 2021 I make a powerful case for throwing a plant into the ground, and backing away, I think. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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