container-grown carrots
This spring, I received a free package of carrot seeds as a promotion from a mayonnaise company. I'm an apartment-dweller, and although I'm in a bit of an urban canyon, I have a western exposure and can usually rely on a couple of full-sun hours every day. I've had success in the past growing morning glories, petunias, geraniums, and hibiscus in containers. I had a deep clay pot that I wasn't using, so I planted the seeds in May.
The pot is 13" deep and 14½" in diameter at the top:
So the question is begged: can carrots be container-grown?
Answer: not on my balcony!
I probably didn't water them enough. Of the entire seed packet, I only had two plants make it. Containers are quick to dry out on a balcony -- particularly in an urban environment, with winds whipping around buildings.
Revel in my bountiful carrot harvest!
REVEL IN IT!
The pot is 13" deep and 14½" in diameter at the top:
So the question is begged: can carrots be container-grown?
Answer: not on my balcony!
I probably didn't water them enough. Of the entire seed packet, I only had two plants make it. Containers are quick to dry out on a balcony -- particularly in an urban environment, with winds whipping around buildings.
Revel in my bountiful carrot harvest!
REVEL IN IT!
Comments
1st at this:
"This spring, I received a free package of carrot seeds as a promotion from a mayonnaise company."
2nd: The pic.
Yours kinda looks like a tape worm.
lol
Very funny
Sounds like Peter's butt.
Failures included other tomatoes, eggplant, celery, and carrots.
There is enough strong sunlight to make our apartments 94 whole comfortable degrees most of the summer, but not enough to grow vegetables.