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Post  Lemonie 5/7/2013, 1:01 pm

I've got 3 top hat boxes of carrot seedlings (scarlet nantes and sweetness hybrid II). 2 boxes have all sprouted and I will need to thin many of them, another box seems to only have a few sprouts and keeps drying out faster (it gets more sun than the others). What are the chances of transplanting some of my excess from the other boxes to the one with only a few sprouts?

I got a wonderful 12" carrot from one of these varieties this winter, but hadn't labeled them so am not sure which one. I have labeled these boxes and am hoping for another beauty this summer if the weather doesn't get too crazy.
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Post  Goosegirl 5/12/2013, 8:23 am

Had to move my box of Carrot Week carrots outside earlier than I had hoped, because the new RAMBUNCTIOUS kitten found it, and even led astray my older cat who knows better! Not sure how many seedlings will survive, but the whole thing is for fun anyway, right? Very Happy Last week I was able to get my regular carrot crop in the ground, so hopefully I will end up with come carrots from somewhere in the garden!

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Post  plantoid 5/12/2013, 7:45 pm

Lemonie wrote:I've got 3 top hat boxes of carrot seedlings (scarlet nantes and sweetness hybrid II). 2 boxes have all sprouted and I will need to thin many of them, another box seems to only have a few sprouts and keeps drying out faster (it gets more sun than the others). What are the chances of transplanting some of my excess from the other boxes to the one with only a few sprouts?

I got a wonderful 12" carrot from one of these varieties this winter, but hadn't labeled them so am not sure which one. I have labeled these boxes and am hoping for another beauty this summer if the weather doesn't get too crazy.

Lemonie ,
Perhaps try wrapping some plastic sheet like clingfilm round the top hat boxes three or four times to slow down the evaportation losses through the wooden sides
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Post  quiltbea 5/12/2013, 10:11 pm

I finally see carrots germinating. My Cosmic Purples sown 4-14 are finally popping. They take longer in the north.
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Post  RoOsTeR 5/19/2013, 10:23 pm

My carrots are starting to resemble carrots Very Happy
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and please excuse my dogs behind. She wasn't being very photogenic Rolling Eyes She was more interested in eating a big clump of mowed grass instead of saying CHEESE!

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Post  drixnot 5/20/2013, 1:04 am

everything you could ever want to know about carrots. (the link puts on you on the page discussing the different colors of carrots... but there is ALLOT more to this site)

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Post  morsel 5/20/2013, 6:33 am

quiltbea wrote:I finally see carrots germinating. My Cosmic Purples sown 4-14 are finally popping. They take longer in the north.
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Glad to see it isn't only me. I am in Northern Maine, carrots always give me fits because they take so much longer to pop up and i go crazy looking for them to come up Very Happy . Patience is not always my first virtue.
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Post  Goosegirl 5/20/2013, 7:58 am

My Carrot Week carrots are coming up and starting to look like carrots as well. However, after the kitten tromped through the box several times before weather allowed it (box, not kitten) to go outside, out of the 2 sq ft I have maybe 10 carrot sprouts. I will give them another few weeks to pop up, then I am going to start filling in with either more carrot seeds or something else to go with the current growing selection!

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Post  R&R 1011 5/20/2013, 12:01 pm

My carrots taken on Friday. I thinned them out and weeded a bit. Stupid maple trees keep dropping their helicopter seeds in my beds. My carrot week carrots are on the right. I just went outside to check on them and I think they have doubled in size from all the rain we've had!
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Post  Lemonie 5/20/2013, 2:09 pm

plantoid wrote:
Lemonie wrote:I've got 3 top hat boxes of carrot seedlings (scarlet nantes and sweetness hybrid II). 2 boxes have all sprouted and I will need to thin many of them, another box seems to only have a few sprouts and keeps drying out faster (it gets more sun than the others). What are the chances of transplanting some of my excess from the other boxes to the one with only a few sprouts?

Lemonie ,
Perhaps try wrapping some plastic sheet like clingfilm round the top hat boxes three or four times to slow down the evaportation losses through the wooden sides

Thanks Plantoid! Now why didn't I think of this? I think I've got some leftover 4mil plastic I can use.
So, any thoughts on success of transplanting my over seeded to my non-seeded areas? I've had a bad infestation of pill bugs and slugs in these boxes (they must like the decaying wood) and they have actually be feasting on some of my seedlings. So I would like to spread out what I have, if possible, as I think we are going to have too hot of a summer to get another planting of carrots in (supposed to be 90*F today).
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Post  plantoid 5/20/2013, 4:27 pm

I've had great success using a nematode slug killer , they eat the slugs and breed in the dead remains of slugs and are totally harmless to humans as they already exist in the soil but not in large numbers.
Transplanting carrots is not normall a viable idea as they grow forked roots ... if they grow at all.

Best let them all grow so that the majority are big enough to harvest and harvest all at once so you don't encourage carrot fly attack by "thinning them out " .

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Post  CapeCoddess 5/21/2013, 7:20 pm

What happened to my carrots??? What am I feeding? They all ended up like this...6 squares!
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Post  plantoid 5/21/2013, 7:28 pm

to me that looks like slugs that live very close to the carrot under the mulch or in the top of the soil .
Any evidence of slug slime using a torch at night to see if it shines a thin slime trail etc.

That's not to say you may have other bugs or birds that like baby carrot tops as well
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Post  llama momma 5/21/2013, 7:35 pm

Oh No!! How disappointing. Don't know the answer to your question, sorry, maybe bunnies or birds. ?? Hope you have more seed available to replant.
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Post  brainchasm 6/6/2013, 3:49 am

Harvested this today:

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Will harvest the rest in a week!
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Post  bnoles 6/6/2013, 4:56 am

Nice Job! If the rest turn out half that well, you will have an awesome crop.
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Post  RoOsTeR 6/6/2013, 9:15 am

Excellent! I think you've got the first harvested carrot there. Did you plant these carrots during Carrot Week? Do you have any other colors? Carrot Week 2013 - Page 10 3170584802

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Post  donnainzone5 6/6/2013, 10:31 am

Or is the cork evidence of celebrating the event?

Congratulations!
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Post  sanderson 6/6/2013, 11:17 am

torch = flashlight. Correct Plantoid?
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Post  CapeCoddess 6/6/2013, 11:46 am

brainchasm wrote:Harvested this today:

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Will harvest the rest in a week!
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Dang! Nice carrot! Vegas is obviously the place to grow them coz New England sure ain't... No

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Post  brainchasm 6/6/2013, 12:45 pm

RoOsTeR wrote:Excellent! I think you've got the first harvested carrot there. Did you plant these carrots during Carrot Week? Do you have any other colors? Carrot Week 2013 - Page 10 3170584802
I planted two squares of Touchon heirloom carrots on March 3rd, same day I planted most of that bed.

These were grown with the minor hope of decent carrots, but the major hope of helping my tomatoes.

I only have the orange Touchons, but I do plan on doing some Dragons this fall.

(my garden is heirloom-only, so my selection is limited...which is a bit of a shame, since the blue carrots look COOL!)

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Post  RoOsTeR 6/8/2013, 9:16 am

I think my Carrot Week carrot box needs some trimming Laughing .
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I wish they'd hurry up! I'm ready to see some purple carrots bounce

How are all the Carrot Week carrots doing out there?

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Post  Turan 6/8/2013, 11:27 am

Going slooooooooowwwwly. I planted 3 squares each different~ Nantes (the control), Purple Sun and Rainbow blend. I planted another 3 squares a couple weeks later. Both times the Purple Sun came up much later than the others. Any one else notice this?

Today I am going to plant the final squares available in that bed with Purple Sun and Rainbow blend. Maybe the purples like warmer weather to sprout?

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Post  FamilyGardening 6/10/2013, 9:29 pm

well, well, well......you know how I have complained about not being able to grow carrots and how our son plants the seeds each year and they don't do much.....

even now he replanted some more seeds in his self watering container with MM and still no sign of them.....he is always disappointed each year with what comes of our carrots.....no big ones

well....look what grew .....as a VOLUNTEER....in the green house Shocked
(now mind you we did sow seeds in this area last fall but nothing came up)

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our son came home from school today and took a peek to see if it was really a carrot under the wood chips....

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sure enough.....it was a carrot....its in his tummy now tongue .....he was soooo excited to pull a BIG carrot....ahhh

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