Weedwhacker said:Beautiful carrots, FarmerDill!
Carrots have been the single biggest indicator for me of how our garden soil has improved over the last 25 years. We started the garden "from scratch," when we moved to this house. The soil at the beginning was heavy, compacted, full of rocks big and small, very few worms, wouldn't drain in a rainstorm. We fertilized, added a lot of organic material (our lawn suffered from removing all the grass clippings, but), and eventually even added sand to loosen things up. Plus removing LOTS of rocks....
I now no longer rototill, have an abundance of earthworms, never any standing water in the garden, and can grow "Tendersweet" carrots, an heirloom variety that is nice and long and thin, along with my standbys, Danvers and Nantes.
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