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SoyBean, could you go back and edit this thread title to read "Official Carrot Thread" instead of "Carrot Sprouts"? If someone, some day, does a search on "carrot", they'll know this is the place to go. Thanks for starting it.

Yes, on Sunday I planted two more rows. Nantes Coreless and Royal Chantenay, if I remember correctly. It's raining right now, so hopefully the soil will be moist but not soggy. Will this be our Official Carrot Thread of TheEasyGarden.com?

Oakland, I'm going to print that graphic and glue it onto sticks in my carrot patch! Edited to add: they look like spinach seedlings when they first appear, don't they?

Hey Soybean, I'm jealous. I'm the one who posted the thread about having trouble getting carrot seeds to germinate! I'm STILL waiting.

Dixie, I'm so glad you found them at your local garden center. They will grow to full size pretty fast. Tutter, thank you so much for the nice remarks about my BYC page of photos. I really enjoy photographing the girls, but more than 75% of my photos turn out to be blurred images of their...

That's a question that came up recently. Here's the link: http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=22783

Dixie, so happy you recognized it. Yes, that's the one that's planted by our coop & run. I got about six of them all at once at a nursery about seven years ago. I don't even remember the name of the nursery. Daylilies are so expensive that I haven't bought any more since! I just Googled...

Yes, I'm Buff Hooligans in BYC. Welcome to the gardening side!

Anny, thanks. We have a little bed of herbs off our deck. They were all doing fine until one day last fall, my dear husband decided to put his cooker/smoker on the deck about one foot away from the thyme patch (which I didn't notice). The smoked bluefish turned out great, but the thyme...

Do you have a local agricultural cooperative extension? Our local one has periodic plant sales where you can get things like blueberry shrubs and native shrubs at a more reasonable price than straight from a retailer. Good luck. Blueberry bushes are so pretty and practical.

I think a planter of attractive herbs with a flowering annual or two would make a terrific gift. What a great idea. Pretty herbs: chives - short season big pink flowers, they are in bud right now in Zone 7 thyme - tiny white or pink flowers, not very noticeable, but there's an...

Reinbeau, it's okay - it's my thread and I can hijack it if I want to... (isn't that a song?)

Reinbeau, in a recent Cape Cod Times, they had a big page feature on bee keeping. One of the staff writers decided to try bee keeping and wrote a story on the class she took, the people who are part of a club on Cape, and her experience with getting shipped bees and introducing them into the...

Reinbeau, this wind is making me crazy, and turning my four Buff Orpington chickens into Frizzles!

Thank you OaklandCityFarmer. I mistakenly thought they were a cool-weather crop, like spinach, lettuce and snow peas. Maybe I'll wait several more weeks to sow again. It's been in the 40's and 50's here pretty consistently for weeks.

I'm on my fourth sowing of THOUSANDS of carrot seeds in the hopes of at least one little row of them actually someday turning into carrots! I keep the bed moist (as per all the articles on carrots I've read), and haven't sown them too deep. Is there a secret carrot seed trick?

Since I hate saving magazines, I just rip out the articles I might want to refer to someday and put them in a three-ring binder with sections (Roses, Kitchen Gardens, Garden Design, Climbing Plants, veggies, etc.) The habit came in handy on this forum when someone wrote in with a question...

Most modern hybrids of tulips do not multiply. Most tulips are only productive (flower-producing) for four years or so, then they peter out and just throw up small leaves every spring until they finally die off. This is natural, and not something you are doing wrong, or can be improved by...

Beefy, it seems your "rescue" went home with the wrong rescuer!!! Boy howdy, was that bad luck to wallop your new little one. I'm not sure about what will happen growth-wise. Why don't you keep nurturing it and see what happens. It would be interesting to find out if orchids can...

Cute to the max!