I've tried to grow carrots before to no avail. There's a famous picture in our family (unfortunately I don't have it) of me and my brother Adam (we're about 7 and 10) standing with BIG FAT grins on our faces holding carrots that are about 1 1/2 inches long. Very pathetic. We were excited though.
Despite my previous experiences, Chris and I thought it might be exciting to grow carrots in our vegge garden. We're super lucky that we live in a good area of the Bay Area for growing things (if anyone knows about the Bay Area, you'll know that you can drive 10 minutes in any direction and there's a 10 degree temperature difference, drive 30 minutes and there's a 20 degree difference). But our area of Oakland is pretty warm, not very foggy, and it doesn't get too cold.
This last season our carrots grew pretty well, as in, substantial enough to eat with more than two bites
While I was tending to our artichokes yesterday I pulled out the rest of the carrots (there weren't very many left) to make room for our tomatoes. Now we've got a good amount of carrots for some tasty snacks
I'd like to plant more for this season in our vegge garden, but the artichoke and tomatoes will be taking up A LOT of room, so we may have to wait until next year when we plant our second vegge garden.
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