At home: carrots and garlic

I wasn't sure what to do with the third LED grow light I bought. But I was making some soup a couple weeks ago and a project presented itself. I had a bag of carrots that had gone native in my crisper drawer. They had grown roots and were all tangled up with each other. There were a few stringy, sad-looking, pale orange sprouts coming off the tops, too. I wish I'd taken a picture. It was pretty pathetic.

I remembered from kindergarten that you can grow new carrots from carrot tops, so I thought, let's give this a shot. I chopped the tops off, leaving a bit of root still attached. I cut a few of them in half across the top, just out of curiosity, to see if they'd still grow. I stuck eight of them in two 8" pots, four in each pot. And I put a clove of garlic in the middle of each. Why not? I'm not sure if the garlic will sprout -- a couple other cloves from that head had gotten a bit dry and maybe even rotten. But, hey, what's the worst that could happen?

I've got them in my bedroom, stuck on a milk crate next to my bed. The light is hanging from the ceiling, and I turn it on when I get up and off when I go to sleep. So they're getting about 16 hours of light, which is pretty good.