I just stumbled on to this forum site...where the heck have I been? I've been a long time subscriber to OG, have vegetable gardened for years and am just starting to enjoy perennial gardening. I'm married, 38 and have one daughter (so far) who is three years old. My family lives on a small acreage in Nebraska just north of Omaha (zone 4 or 5 depending who you ask). I have a large kitchen garden (about 40X60) and am still pulling carrots of it it in spite of the fact we had our first hard frost last night. I love to organic garden and look forward to sharing with you all.

Celeste

Welcome Celest, I'm in Ontario zone 5 I am hoping to get carrotts all winter. I got a bale of hay and put it over them , hopfully I can pull carrotts through the winter. I have just a regular garden no acreage. I grow small amounts of veg with "help" from my 3g/daughters.I love this forum and have learned so much from all the friendly folks here.Looking forward to your posts,maybe we can learn from each other.Again WELCOME.
Good luck to you and yours
Mavis

Yes welcome--and maybe both of you can answer a question. I have never been able to grow carrots. I plant the seed--thin them out--cover with row-covers and the little guys come up and look great--the next time I look all of the green is gone--so no carrots--any ideas?????

Welcome Celeste! :^)

If you ask me who lives soidly in zone 4, you're in the balmy south! All kidding aside, your carrots are just fine in the ground until the ground freezes solid. Even then they are still usable in soups and things if you can get them pried out of the ground. And yes, that is the voice of experience talking.

Hi, Celeste, welcome to the forum. I have enjoyed both the information and the occasional silliness, and I am sure you will too.

Welcome, from zone 3.

I have left about 1 square yard of carrots in my garden, which I will be covering with leaves tomorrow. We have been having hard frosts for over a month now, but the carrot tops are still green.

I look forward to reading your posts -- I am sure you have unique experiences and ideas to contribute!

Hello and welcome!!! I just planted carot seeds two weeks ago.Some are up and growing. Also planted lettuce. The gardening I'm growing at is facing south I believe and is very warm compared to other areas around the school. I'll have to check on Monday to see how every thing took this chilly weather we are having now.

My carrots (oxhearts) get sweeter if I leave them in the ground after a couple of good frosts. Problem is that I never seem to plant enough, and that's using tweezers and spacing them before the germinate, so I don't have to thin! As long as you remember where you put them, or can recognize the mush that is the tops after a hard frost, you'll be able to eat carrots until you can no longer crack the snowy crust on the ground! :-)

Elfie...where do you order this variety of carrots? I grew the 'what was left at the garden center' variety. They came up nice, but are a little void of taste...have been good in soups and stews though. This has been my first succesful year with carrots and I attribute it to getting them in early---and then ignoring them completely.

Welcome! I'm sure you're going to love this site. Lots of nice people who get excited about things like compost and leaves and garlic, and who share their knowledge with generosity.

All the green is gone, like totally disappeared? It sounds like rabbits to me. Maybe they are getting under the row covers?

There are only a couple of diseases that affect carrots and about the only control is to plant resistant varieties. Maybe try rotating your planting?

That's not a lot of help, but I've never had problems with my carrots--except that I'm so bad at thinning!

Welcome from the good ole greater Birmingham, Alabama area!

I'm your no-till OG farmer, green manuring/compost maniac from 'Bama!

Happy Gardening!

Greetings Celeste from a fellow Nebraskan just NE of Lincoln. This is a great site! Have learned some things that has helped us sell natural grown produce at the Lincoln Haymarket Farmers Market. We homeschool, and gardening has been great in instilling a good work ethic in our four children. Welcome!

Welcome !! You have found a little honey hole of great and knowledgeable people... I found this in July or August and have been hooked ever since....

A biG HELLO from wonderful south eastern Wi.!I do my carrots in a raised bed (prevents forking in clay soil)I rake a 3x4 foot (apprx) berm like area about 3-4 inches high and sprinkle my seeds in that area then I take a small piece of plywood and place it on the soil and gently press the seeds into the soil,dont want to bury them!!I'm a zone 4-5 (depending)and I usually plant them the 4th week of May I dont thin until they are pencil sized and then I use what I thin out for snacking on. Leave the rest in the soil until after a couple of good frosts then I pull them out rinse, dry and store in a old cooler full of sand in my cellar>never had a problem except for them pesky little wabbits!So far I have had great luck with Nantes.I did try a yellow carrot this year thet grew very large but I dont like the flavor very much!