Carrot Report

On the whole had an average germination year. I had seeds under straw and maybe planted a little too deeply. Our long spring meant the soil didn't warm as quickly as it needed to. That said, we have plenty of carrots. Report will now commence.

oxheart
atomic red
scarlet nantes
purple haze
danvers 1/2 long
jaume du daub
redcore chanteney
parisian
dragon
nantaise
red samurai
st. valery
shin kuroda #5
nantes
yellowstone
berlicum
rothchild
lunar white
danvers 126
solar yellow
japanese imperial-as long as advertised. Today I pulled a 16 inch carrot. Yesterday I tried to pull a carrot twice the size in diameter in the mother of all carrot pulling contests...and lost..bigtime. They have good but not overly sweet fresh eating properties. I made carrot spaghetti out of them last night. Neat.
white satin
amsterdam #2
rodelika
amarillo

calcium

sprayed everything with calcium. Defoliated more melon canopy. Brought in 3 suyo long. Not perfect--Got a little fat--But they'll still taste good..

Planted
lolla bionda
purple mizuna
blood sorrel
osaka purple mustard
tat soi
ching-chiang
shogin turnip
hon tsai tai
5 radishes
amsterdam #2
winter spinach
erste ernte spinach

Beans

The ever dangerous "grow a bunch of varieties but not enough of the staples" in this case a green bush bean?? Contender did not contend.

Pole
Rattlesnake Bean (Purple streaked green pole)- back for a repeat performance. Love this bean. Nice teepee going -- harvest is about to come in.
roquencourt (Yellow wax bush)-hard to get established. Have gotten some beautiful beans but still waiting for a good flush. When right these make the longest thick white-yellow pods.
marvel of venice (yellow romano pole)-nothing yet struggled to get these established too.
violetto (purple pole) lost most of them in establishment--3 left.
soleil (yellow bush filet)-small only one plant made it--beans so far have been bad
Indy Gold (Yellow Bush)--doing okay--gotten some nice beans waiting for a good second flush
Royal Burgundy (Purple Bush snap)-just started producing--beans have great texture and color
Nugget (yellow bush)-similar to soleil in size--not sure whats going on here.
Neckargold (yellow snap pole)-waiting...waiting. 2-4 made it.
Contender (green bush)-lost all but 1--last year was so good.
Maxibel (green filet)-love these looong curvy skinny beans. If the bean pops..though their worthless as pods. The beans can still be eaten
Purpiat (purple romano bush)-Love steamed romano's. These came of the plant pretty easily when young. Carefull handling. Got my first genuine pods today.
Roc d'hor (Yellow wax bush)-These are the best yellow beans so far.