After a rummaging through my seed bank I found that I had 5 varieties of carrots. Two packages are labeled for 2019 use which means that, as a guess, I stand a 50/50 chance of those seeds being viable. Carrot seeds are said to be viable for 3 years but what I don’t know is when the seeds were ‘put up’: 2019 may have been the third year of seeds saved from 2016. Guess I’ll find out in about 14-21 days.
So I turned the soil again in 5 of my raised beds, leveled them off, and planted the onion seedlings I had going and the seeds from the 5 carrot varieties.
Amsterdam Minicor (54-75 days). A gourmet carrot from Holland, grown for tender baby carrots 3-4 in. long, or 6-7 in. long when grown to full size. Sweet, fine-grained, deep orange, and uniform in size and shape.
Danvers 126 (65-75 days) . Carrots have a firm and crisp flesh with excellent flavor. Very productive and a fine keeper.
Danvers 126 Half Long (70-80 Days) An improvement on the original Danvers Half Long variety, it has a sweeter flavor, better crack resistance, and heavier yields. Fine grain, and a deep orange cortex and core without a halo.
Autumn King (70-85 days): Bright-orange Imperator-type roots that reach up to twelve inches long and two-and-one-half inches in diameter.
Berlicum (80 days) Beautiful 8”, good-sized roots are extra-smooth, long, and blunt. A deep orange color with a fine carrot flavor. Slender roots tend to stay tender and not become woody.
My ass is dragging today as it’s been several months since I’ve done that much bending over (OBTW, keep your dirty mind to yourself; that type of bending over ended when I retired!).