Is it too late to plant in the PNW?
Hey experts, I want to finish my raised bed tomorrow (Memorial Day). Is it too late in the year? I'm slightly south of Seattle If I buy little plants is it too late to get some stuff in the ground?
Fun with carrot breeding for everyone. Easy and simple using supermarket carrots!
This is mainly for fun, if you want to try selective plant breeding. Especially for helping get children interested in gardening by turning it into a fun? science? experiment.Take some supermarket carrots and cop off the ends with the leaves. Put these ends in a shallow dish of water, lightly pressed into potting soil, or pressed into the soil of your garden. Eat the other parts of the carrots.Success of failure doesn't matter, you're making use of something that you would have thrown out.If these grow then they will eventually set seed you can collect. Plant the carrot seeds in pots or your garden. You will likely get a big variety of different shapes, sizes and colours of carrot. Cut off the ends of the carrots you like the look of and plant those ends, but don't plant any of the carrot ends from the carrots you don't like. Eventually, you could breed a white carrot this way, or make your carrots tend towards orange more frequently.You will get so much carrot seed th...
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