hey all, hope you're all having a nice weekend.
Just a note on carrots as bienniels: They won't go to seed the first year.
If you want them to "mature", botanically speaking, (go to seed), they have
to grow into their second year. In colder climates that means mulching them
real well. Here (southern new jersey) I mulched them real well and had last
year's July planted carrots as late as February 4th. This spring they looked
kind of mangy, but were putting out new growth. (I didn't leave any in for
seed, though.)
Pat
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Hello to all,
Carrots are definitely normally biennials... however last year I grew
about 100 row feet of carrots from Territorial Seeds in OR (I am drawing
a blank on the varieties) and about 5 carrots bolted and went to seed the
first year.
Carrot flowers are very attractive to insects as are the flowers
of all carrot family plants (parsley, parsnips...) and are a good
way to attract benefiicials such as hover flies... the towering seed
heads of parsnips are especially attractive...
Joel
