I don’t know where to start here. Maybe at the Carrot Museum? Though it exists online, the International Carrot Conference is real….and it’s in Madison, Wisconsin this August. Fascinating.
I don’t know how I’d get along with the pros, though. So here’s a gallery of my early rooftop carrots from mid May to early July, 2012.
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- Seedlings
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- Rows of carrots and swiss chard
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- Growing nicely…
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- i flipped the boxes around every few days so they got even light.
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- Thinned carrots
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- Growing….
Everything is moving along nicely, right? The swiss chard next to the carrots wound up not working out. The leaves were very, very bitter and didn’t like to be picked, or not to be picked. Quite possibly because they shouldn’t have been grown in a small container like that, but I was still curious.
These photos are mid July to early September, 2012.
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- I thinned the carrots out about every other day or so…
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- …and needed to do something with them.
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- I had a willing volunteer waiting for me.
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- I was very encouraged by these guys.
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- They weren’t as sweet as commercial carrots, but that was fine.
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- They’re so lovely!
In general, they were all pretty attractive carrots. Not the sweetest, but they were all crunchy, and I was proud. At that point, a few of them started to get really weird. These photos are mid to late September, 2012.
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- Uh…what the hell is that?
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- IT’S ALIVE AND WALKING TOWARDS ME!
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- Possibly one of my best.
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- How pretty?
I wanted to see how long they would last in the box, kind of see if they’d rot in the ground or if they’d be ok through the winter. These photos are from mid January, 2013.
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- Pretty good for January….but where’s the rest of it?
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- I still didn’t have a problem finding someone to finsih it off.
I visited a friend’s farm this past weekend in Mineral, Virginia. More on that in tomorrow’s garden update. Was given an assortment of carrot seeds that I will use this year.
Here are some REAL carrots. We pulled up a few of them from the rows.
And of course, the obligatory 
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Roof Garden Gal 
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