Rainbow Blend Carrot Seeds Planted in Greenstalk - June 2024
Yesterday, I posted a photo of our first broccoli crown that has emerged and talked about our vertical vegetable garden container called a Greenstalk. I put six Lieutenant Broccoli plants in one of the deeper rows in the middle of the tower. In this earlier post , I covered a few of the other things in the vertical garden including herbs and a bell pepper plant. In a few of the rows/levels, I also planted some Zinnia seeds as cut flowers, but that left one deep row (third from the bottom) empty. Because it is one of the deeper Greenstalk levels, I thought we'd try something new (to us) in container gardening: carrots. In our previous, raised-bed garden in Elmhurst, we grew plenty of carrots from seeds. My problem was NEVER getting the seeds to germinate, my problem was always in thin-ing them out enough to grow good-sized carrots. Here's a post about the time I used carrot tape (went very well) and here's a series of posts from 2012 that shows the Touchon carrot