Carrot top - A month into heavy rain...

The rainy season brought much delight to my garden. I no longer need to water the plants so often as heavy rain pours over every single day and night. We're enjoying the cool weather and all the plants seem to grow bigger, taller, spring up and branch out :) Here's the carrot top that i planted earlier which now has grown really well considering the last one died due to extreme hot weather. As I wanted to setup a garden bed of carrot tops, I will need to plant more of these...

We love rainy season :)

Carrot-top reset!

This is a carrot top that i keep temporarily at one of the turmeric pot, now already growing 2" leaves. The picture was taken after a heavy rain.

beautiful..

Garden - part 1 - reset :)

Most of the sprouts and mini projects we had started earlier went down due to many reasons, other than busy schedules of our actual day job that kept us away from home during daylight :) except i guess for the corn that grew tall, produced, and became our kitten's go-to scratching pole. The corn plant withered after bearing five corns.. such a shame that we didnt capture the progress. Turmeric made it out alive quite easily. My ginger plant finally grows after a number of attempts. 

Not as lucky were avocados, carrot tops, cherry tomatoes, and long beans. They didnt survive the dry season. Also a row of newly transplanted catnips were swept away by heavy rain and thunderstorms that came not long after the dry season! 

It suffices to say that i am starting all over again.

I've now got carrot top that i keep temporarily at one of the turmeric pot, already growing 2" leaves.

Project Carrot – kickoff

Back in hubby's hometown to end a week long Chinese New Year holiday. While looking for some veges in the fridge i found a fat carrot with healthy top. Perfect for kids project!

So here I am trying to regrow a carrot top, first with water and then hopefully to plant it in the soil once i see some roots. If this trial works, i may be able to start a carrot tops bed for the bunny to munch.

As always i would google around to find the tried and tested methods, and i would land on Mr EastCoastMan youtube videos. 

i) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duV2Mit_uf8 

ii) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3DEo1rRSg 

Steps in pictures below:

find one good carrot preferably organic

a small container, or a plate will do

toothpicks at work

balancing the angle

pour water in, carrot half submerged. i actually changed the toothpicks angle so the carrot top submerged more

place it somewhere with sun lights

While anxiously waiting for the greens, bear mind growing carrot top will not produce the orange carrots. The carrot is a taproot itself which cant regrow.

From www.carrotmuseum.co.uk:

The carrot top in time might flower and it is very nice for beneficial insects and butterflies. Carrots are a biennial and will flower when they are 2 years old. The plant will eventually produce a flower and then seeds. If you are lucky the seeds will be viable and you can plant them in the ground to grow real carrots.