An experiment

Today I've started an experiment with my carrots. About a month ago I planted carrot seeds of 2 varieties. The problem with carrots is they have really tiny seeds and so it is very hard to sow them finely. They tell you in all the garden books to mix the seed with river sand then sow it, but I don't know what river sand is exactly nor can I be assed finding out, so I just tried my best to sow it finely.

The seedlings are now of a decent size, and I need to thin them out. There are so many seedlings it feels like such a waste to just pull them out. The problem being if you don't, the carrots don't have room to become a decent size. They almost stay kind dormant in seedling size till they have the room.

So to my experiment. I read somewhere that an awesome (though time consuming) way to get perfect carrots is to make a hole in the ground with a broom handle, dowel or something similar, fill it with potting mix, then put a carrot seed on top. The carrot will basically grow to fill the potting mix hole.

So I have done a similar thing, instead of using carrot seeds, I've used my pulled out seedlings. Hopefully they will grow to fill the compost filled holes I've placed them in creating a lovely sized and shaped carrot.

I may need to thin my original carrot plot further as they grow. The next lots of seedlings I pull I am going to throw into a stir fry, green ends and all. You an eat the whole lot when they are little. Really delicious!