About when would you harvest these?Ordered some different varieties of Carrot seeds for fall planting. Do a lot of pot roast come fall and winter so these will be great with that
We have some we started from seed that are ready now. Will be planting the fall batch as soon as they seeds come in. A lot of varieties are in the 70-90 day range for growth. Need to harvest before frost. These will go into big planters that i can move to greenhouse if neccessaryAbout when would you harvest these?
I'm thinking of growing carrots in 20" pots on the patio next year.
I claim no credit for any of this but my wife did an outstanding job for her first go round. We had a very good watermelon yesterday and she picked these things today (not the sweet corn). I've been eating a cucumber or two a day for the past several days and there are plenty more on the way. Tons of romas coming in the next couple of weeks and onions and garlic as well. We're both pretty excited and fired up for next year.
I may be the odd man out. I like winter squash, butternut or acorn either one.
Your story loosely reminds me of the time my former wife brought home a two-gallon planter with a pathetic looking spruce tree that she got on clearance at K-Mart for $2. I laughed at her and said she bought a Charlie Brown Christmas tree and wasted her time and money. Fast forward 29 years and that now massive tree sits prominent on the front corner of the property. I sold the place 16 years ago but I still drive by occasionally to marvel at how all the small trees we planted there have grown.There had been a really sorry looking baggy of half a dozen seed potatoes at Walmart, marked down to nothing. So, OK, I spent a buck and tried them. Was digging a few this morning. Got almost half a five gallon bucket full off of three of the plants. I hadn't even bothered with mounding them. So yeah, reckon some of those will get saved for next year.
Got three four kinds of taters this year. I'm going to save some of the fruits as well from them and create a test bed to see what prospers, and see what if any are keepers for another variety. Maybe I'll develop the corn tundra tuber of choice.
I have just started experimenting with baking soda, neem oil, castile soap spraying to run off my mildew, virus, etc. Jury still out.I just figured out that the "dust" covering my cucumber leaves is powdery mildew. The ones vining on the ground have it pretty bad and it is starting to show up on the trellised vines. Do you guys do anything about this or just let it be. It's getting late in the season and production is already slowing down.