[tjg911]

in my experience they get big and have large cores. i've had some 16" long and about 2" at the top. they were not all that good at that size.

i stopped planting seed in spring cuz by the time we get frost they are too old and too large, frost sweetens them. i switched to seeding them in late june.

i gave up growing carrots cuz the planting and weeding was a killer. i planted a small block like 2' X 3' or 3' X 3' spacing them 2" on center, try that in the heat of late june. i never planted a row.

by mid september the deer who did not eat anything all year would eat the tops and sometimes in doing do pull the carrots out of the ground. i devised a cover made from welded wire fence to stop that. just too much trouble.

i often ended up tossing pounds and pounds into the compost as i did not use them. it's such a heartbreak to throw out 20 or 25 pounds of carrots. sometimes they rot in the fridge and i was growing bolero the longest storage carrot there is. i grow a lot of butternut squash so i tended to not eat a lot of carrots as i had an orange vegetable i ate a lot of.

so now i just buy a 1 pound bag of organic carrots in the store. i found for how little i use it was a better way tho i liked to grow them and it was great fun to dig them and see what would come up!

tom