More Indoor Carrot Woes

They're really healthy looking, at least! My poor sad little indoor carrot crop... nice and green and perky, but still the size of... well, the same size as they were when I wrote this post. The greens are still about 2 inches tall.

Meanwhile I've been buying carrots at the store...

Planting Indoor Carrots

Since posting this post a couple of months ago, my indoor carrot crop has not changed. I'm not kidding you - it's as if they're frozen in time. They still look like the beginnings of carrots - the greens are starting to take shape even thought the roots have not developed into anything edible yet.

I wonder if I've watered them enough, or if I need another type of seed. I've read a few websites that suggest small varieties such as Baby Finger do well indoors.

I think I'm going to try watering them more often... meanwhile, has anyone out there had success growing carrots indoors that they can share? I'd love to hear any tips you may have.

Indoor Carrots

Hey!!! They're starting to look like carrots!!! (I'm referring to the seeds I planted in the window box in my laundry room).

Well... let me clarify. If you didn't know what carrot tops looked like before they're at the "big and bushy like in the store" stage, you wouldn't know what these where. However if you've grown carrots before and know what they look like when the greens are about an inch tall... voila!!

I estimate they should be ready to eat in, hmmm, a month? LOL dunno. We'll see. Like I've said before, it's a good thing I'm not living off this 100 Mile diet ;-)

Eating Light

Gotta love blogging. No minimum word count: write as little as you want. Seeing as how I have sooooo many photos to edit and so little time, here's a quick note about our "low carbon" dinner:

(lol... "low carb." ??)

Tonight my kids had what many would think of as snack food: sliced apple with peanut butter, cut up avocado, cheese slices, grapes and carrot, all raw.

Not perfectly green, mind you, because some of the ingredients were shipped from afar, and some of them were purchased by my hubby via car, but hey... there was no cooking involved, and the carrots, avocado, apples, and grapes where bought by me, shopping on foot :-)

5 Garden Planning Lessons From Last Season

This weekend I'm going to plant my garden.

I think it's finally warm enough, considering the fact that the potato bits in my compost have started sprouting leaves and growing new potatoes! At the moment I have seeds on my counter, plastic take-out knives to use as row markers, and a tray of tall tomato plants just itching for more soil to spread their roots through. I also have some bell pepper seedlings that I've started, which should be interesting (never done those before). All I need now is an hour or so to get it done.

My lessons from last year include:

1) Take it easy on the bean plants. ONE SEED last year produced a MASSIVE stalk that produced more beans than we could eat.

2) Ditto for the snap peas. They're yummy and easy to grow, but you can only eat so many.

3) Have more radish and carrot seeds on hand and plant fewer at a time. I ran out last year, and regretted planting them so densely that I had to thin out (i.e. discard) a bunch. They're both fast growing crops that you can get many of in each season, so you don't want to run out or squander your seeds too early.

4) Don't buy "mixed greens" seeds... I don't know enough about greens, and when they grew I couldn't tell which were weeds and which were edible, so I didn't eat any (that's OK, I'm laughing at myself too ;-)

5) Plant more potatoes. They're easy to grow and a versatile food - last year I was forever wrist deep in soil rooting around, wishing I'd grown more.