1st harvest of 2016...

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Love those pretty carrots! Your lettuce is nice too, but if you've seen one you've seen them all if you know what I mean... But, of course it looks fantastic compared to the lettuce that I have not been growing.

I want pretty carrots like yours this year. You taunted me into a competitive feeling, even if it's only with past carrots in my garden.

I feel the same and now I want colored carrots too! I want everything now.

 

[thistlebloom]

I feel the same and now I want colored carrots too! I want everything now.

Haha GWR, that's so cute! Lets do it! Lets all grow beautiful multi colored carrots this year!

 

[Beekissed]

I am!!! I'm also planning for a four season harvest this year so I can harvest lovely greens and carrots all winter long like Major does.

For now I have added the reds and purple carrots to my regular orange, but have not added any yellows.

 

[thistlebloom]

Look at you getting all adventurous @Beekissed !
I love growing those colored carrots. Last year the only ones I grew were the ones the kids planted in their garden and they did okay, but nothing note worthy. I'm doing a lot more this year and they're going to be stupendous! Haha!

 

[Beekissed]

You have no idea! We normally can't even grow carrots here at all, due to our hard clay soil, but I'm giving them a try again this year to see if this BTE method will increase our chances for actually growing a carrot.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Haha GWR, that's so cute! Lets do it! Lets all grow beautiful multi colored carrots this year!

Now I have to find a special place for them. I have had bad luck growing carrots. I have a raised bed, but it needs some new soil.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I am!!! I'm also planning for a four season harvest this year so I can harvest lovely greens and carrots all winter long like Major does.

For now I have added the reds and purple carrots to my regular orange, but have not added any yellows.

I am going to try to get the fall things planted in time.

 

[journey11]

That is a nice view of your spread, @Smart Red . The receding lines are easy on the eyes.

 

[Smart Red]

You have no idea! We normally can't even grow carrots here at all, due to our hard clay soil, but I'm giving them a try again this year to see if this BTE method will increase our chances for actually growing a carrot.

Bee, way back in the 70s there was The Victory Garden show on PBS. When he planted carrots, he would make a V shaped trench about 6 inches deep and plant his carrots in the V. He did this because he had rocky ground but it should make a difference for heavy clay as well.

 

[Beekissed]

Bee, way back in the 70s there was The Victory Garden show on PBS. When he planted carrots, he would make a V shaped trench about 6 inches deep and plant his carrots in the V. He did this because he had rocky ground but it should make a difference for heavy clay as well.

No one likes carrots enough here to go to special methods to grow them. Not being a staple crop for us, we just never went through the motions for them. If they grow this year, that's great and I'd like to eat them~raw, not cooked~but if they don't grow well then we'll try again another year when the mulch has composted a little deeper.