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    you dont even have to soak them until they sprout.the night before you plant the seeds, soak them and plant in the morning. or when you plant them light mist untill they come up. carrot seed needs to be kept wet so they can break through the soil above them, or better put, the soil needs to be kept soft by wetting it so the carrot seeds can break through. all the plants i start indoors i sprout the seeds first. plant the most vigerous sprouts only.

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    I have had good results planting carrots in a row, water, and cover with a board until the sprouts break the surface under the board.

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    DLCTEX, that is a very very good suggestion, the best one i ever heard on carrots. thank you

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    I have good success planting carrots direct in the ground and running the irrigation daily until the sprouts appear. In fact 2 rows of carrots are feeding 3 families this winter!

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    keeping the soil moist allows the fragile carrot seedlings to break through the surface of the soil and then they can continue to grow with ease. after breaking through the surface of the soil, carrots are not hard to grow. this coming year i have another big round old cattle tank filled with compost and i going to grow hundreds of carrots in that tank. one tank for leeks and one tank for carrots. ill save the 15 gallon containers for peppers. i have a smaller oval cattle tank that will be used for bunching onions. i can never eat enough of those.

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    Just finished picking the last of the Grapefruit , Satsuma and Meyer Lemons. These were the ones I couldn't reach from the ground. Last years citrus crop was poor, not much fruit on any of them. This year it was a bumper crop. Trees were loaded. Satsuma are good to eat out of hand, no problem giving those away . Grapefruit , not quit as easy to get rid of. Not everyone likes grapefruit, thank goodness my wife eats them every day and my Office Manager, her mother and sisters will take some. But Meyer Lemons , that's a whole different story.....people act like I'm trying to give them a sack of the black plague . Seems like everyone has one or their momma does.
    Satsuma's make a good tasting jam so I'm going to try Grapefruit and Meyer Lemon, might be good.
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    "But Meyer Lemons , that's a whole different story.....people act like I'm trying to give them a sack of the black plague . Seems like everyone has one or their momma does."

    Next time you have too many Meyers lemons, let me know. I have been unable to grow them up here. My 2 year old one was killed in the last freeze. It burned my Satsuma and Kumquat bad.
    Still had lots of satsumas on the tree that froze I picked all I could reach the day before, but many were too high. It also burned my onions and garlic, but they will come back.
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    Will do , farmerjim . Glad to have another " I will take some " source .

    Funny how only 25 or 30 miles more to the North can make a difference in if a plant is killed by the cold, None of mine were damaged much , just some leaf burn . My trees are older too, 5 to 6 years and 12 to 15 feet tall.
    I bet another factor is I'm in the city surrounded by houses and fences, probably warmer around here and less wind blowing . That's probably the real reason I got off with just a little burning on some leaves .
    I'll PM you next year, when they come in . I've cooked with , given away , juiced and froze all of this years harvest . I found a baked Meyer Lemon Pie recipe that looks to be a good one , will post it if it's good.
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    gwpercle, you said a very very good point about gardening. i live in a zone 4 local but all the towns in my area are really zone 5. the refection of sun off of buildings. heat from the houses, deterent of the wind and it goes on and on makes town gardening easier than country gardening. national geographic years ago had a monthly mag article on just such a thing. they said any tree that grows good in the country will grow much better in the city, even very big cities. same with gardens. plant rhubarb on the south side of a out farm building at the drip line and watch it grow. ive seen current bushes growing at the south side of rez houses at the drip line that looked like trees and not bushes. its the sun and rain from the roof and protection that does it. i cant grow catulpa and linden trees on my place but they grow like nuts in the town close to me. you made a very good point.

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    I first noticed this when driving from Baton Rouge to New Orleans at night , as soon as you would get into the N.O. city limits the temperature rises enough to feel it . My wife has family in N.O. so we went there often . It evidently wasn't just my imagination .
    I do know plants that grow well in N.O. will occasionally freeze in Baton Rouge , only 45 miles to the North!

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    I was complaining about the bumper crop of Meyer Lemons I had , farmerjim kindly offed to take some excess because his trees died in a freeze. I just noticed all the leaves had fallen off the tree and there were some dead limbs ! Between the freeze we had and the August flood (30 inches in 48 hours) The tree is in an area that doesn't have the best drainage , I may not have to worry about lemons next year. Just when I thought it was large enough not to worry...POW we get a one - two punch from Mother Nature. Good thing I have a good supply of frozen juice in the freezer.
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    Sadly, my garden spot will be tilled under at this house and replaced with sod. All that hard work down the drain, but I doubt the next owners will be interested in my experiments. The beds at the new house will need to be amended with another few truck loads of manure and compost.
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    Hope to be able to put in a good garden this year as I was lucky and a friend tilled just before the winter freeze hit idaho. Right now I look out and see a lot of white and we are to be getting more this coming week. Yes it is this summer's water so we sort of take it in stride but we have had 29 plus inches since december 2016 and are only something like 14.5 inches below the most ever for Boise idaho.

    Just hope my garden area dries out so I can plant and enjoy lots of home grown veggies this year
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    We've been deluged with rain for much of the last two months. Snow down to about 3,000 ft. Of course the Kali bureaucrats refuse to say that the drought is over. Peas are already in, hoping to put the garlic in in the next few days.
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    ive got the biggest snow bank planted in my yard ive ever seen in twenty years. it is a snow year here. march 15th isnt that far off and usually i have chives coming up on the south side of the house by then. the start of spring isnt that far away here. of the 4 seasons here, spring is the longest one. lots of snow melt water for my trees and garden this year when it warms up. will be starting some plants next month in the house next to the big south window. something to look forward to.

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    Got the garlic in and some potatoes.

    HMMM, chives.
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    Little girl and grandma started a few things the other day inside house. I want to pot a couple tomato plants and try to have ripe fruits in may or june for once.

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    I tossed some spent brewers grain in the garden yesterday on top of 3 feet of snow... what the birds and bunnies don't eat I will till in as compost.

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    I have two areas I plant in. I rotate year to year. The one that is not planted in, gets all the fish carcuses buried all year long until I am done fishing for the year.

    Once I started to do this my garden almost seemed to double the output. So I am going to continue to do it.

    The first year I tried it, I just buried it along side some of the tomato plants and peppers. It killed them off! I was not happy about that. But talking to a few people and they said the fish have to decompose first. Otherwise they will rot from the roots up.

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