Beginner Gardening: How do your carrots grow?, 1 by august2003

august2003 wrote:
1lisac - I have to laugh at your post about the carrots. Last year in our raised beds there was one section just for my husband and he put carrots in there - nothing much happened - then by accident I spilled a bunch of leek seeds in there (I was planting the adjoining section but got clumsy and the excess seed i was going to save fell into his carrot bed) I thought oh well maybe the leeks will never germinate and he will never know i screwed up. Well the leeks got huge and guess what else all of a sudden decided to come up - the carrots. It was a very crowded bed. The carrots had green shoulders and were not too tasty, but the leeks were fabulous. I harvested all excess and put in freezer. Found a recipe on internet for potato leek soup that is fantastic & i just take 4 leeks out of the freezer each time to prepare the soup with. The green shoulders on the carrots - does that mean they were planted too shallow?

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