[Sca-cooks] Carrots in period

[Johnna Holloway]

Oh dear.... you must not get gardening catalogs at your house.
Even if you don't garden, they are great to browse and for food lovers  
really a great source.

  The Detroit News had an article just this past week.
http://detnews.com/article/20090110/OPINION03/901100303/Catalogs-can-help-uproot-the-doldrums-of-winter
and recommended these catalogs:
• The Nichols Garden Seed Catalog, (800) 422-3985; www.nicholsgarden  
nursery.com.

• Johnny's Selected Seeds, (877) 564-6697; www.johnnyseeds.com.

• Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, (417)-924-8917, www.rareseeds.com.

• Renee's Garden Seeds, www.reneesgarden.com.

  Thompson & Morgan, (800) 274-7333; www.thompsonandmorgan.com.

• Peaceful Valley Organics, (888) 784-1722 www.groworganic.com.

• Pinetree Garden Seeds, (207) 926-3400; www.superseeds.com.

• The Mail Order Gardening Association has a great Web site listing  
dozens of great seed catalogs. Check it out at www.mailordergardening.com 
.


I also wrote this article on the topic:
[PDF] The Citadel June 2009
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
On Gardens. Contributed by Johnnae llyn Lewis, CE. Outside the grass  
is ...
www.cynnabar.org/files/citadel/Citadel2009-Jun.pdf

Note that the article is two years old, so some links may have to be  
searched anew.

Johnnae

On Jan 19, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> One of my nephews got for Christmas a plant root toy/aquarium. Sort  
> of like the ant farm I remember from being a kid with plastic sides  
> except you watch the carrots, onions and radishes grow rather than  
> the ants. It came with packets of seeds for each type of vegetable.  
> Until that point I didn't realize that carrots generated seeds. I  
> thought they only grew by sprouting from roots. I remember in school  
> cutting off the carrot top and putting it in water to grow. Always  
> something new to learn. :-)
>