Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Carrots are a bust.

It's official. You can't grow carrots from carrot tops. Although the greens grew prolifically...

 ...under the ground, there's nary a carrot. Here's what the best one looked like:

...and here's what the worst one looked like. Not pretty.

So, kids, what have we learned? You don't grow carrots from carrot tops.

Also, I think we've learned that the lights are not powerful enough, at least for this application. I don't think more light would've saved the carrots, but I think the greens would be less spindly.

So now it's just down to garlic. Wonder what's going on down there?

1 comment:

  1. those are some sad looking carrot tops.

    -maria f.

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