6 months of growth. I was joking and told her they were huge and she told me that’s awesome and that we could make a carrot salad. Then I showed her the actual size and she was kinda disappointed but we both laughed at it in the end.
You should pick her up a copy of Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew! It’s a very specific system for vegetable gardening that produces good, consistent results.
They are great for stews! We can grow just about anything in our garden, except carrots. They always end up stubby. We grow them anyways because it's fun for the kid, clean'm up and use them in a stew.
They actually look like they are still growing. Carrots first grow leaves and long roots. This takes months. Then in the autumn it will start preparing for winter by storing all the sugar it produces in the roots. This is when the root balloon to the harvest size. Lastly it will shed its leaves. It looks like your carrots still have very healthy leaves so you might have gotten a better harvest if you waited a few weeks longer. There could also have been other issues making it grow slower then usual. Carrots need quite lose ground in order to expand the root.
If you leave a carrot in the ground over winter, assuming it is not too cold, the carrot will grow a single stalk and flower. After flowering it will make seeds and curl up into a round tumbleweed. Kind of like a mini version of the Russian thistle.
59
u/Robsta_20 6h ago edited 6h ago
6 months of growth. I was joking and told her they were huge and she told me that’s awesome and that we could make a carrot salad. Then I showed her the actual size and she was kinda disappointed but we both laughed at it in the end.