Growing Together: Open Forum

Hi everyone!  This is our first year of maintaining a garden at our Early Education Facility.  We started all our plants from seeds and they are doing fantastic!  However, our carrots are not.  They were doing great, but then the squirrels came around and ate most of the green tops.  I built a netting around all our raised garden beds to deter the squirrels.  I just checked this morning, and the green tops that were left are now completely gone.  The netting is all still intact, so I'm not sure what happened.  So, my question is, will they continue to grow or did I learn a very valuable lesson?

Did you notice any swallowtail caterpillars around your carrots?  Carrot tops (as well as parsley and fennel) are swallowtail favorites in the garden and they can eat quite a lot.  The eggs are very small and the young stage is a black fuzzy little caterpillar that you may not think is a butterfly.  Here's a website that talks about growing carrots for swallowtails.

Carrots and Swallowtails

Hi everyone!  This is our first year of maintaining a garden at our Early Education Facility.  We started all our plants from seeds and they are doing fantastic!  However, our carrots are not.  They were doing great, but then the squirrels came around and ate most of the green tops.  I built a netting around all our raised garden beds to deter the squirrels.  I just checked this morning, and the green tops that were left are now completely gone.  The netting is all still intact, so I'm not sure what happened.  So, my question is, will they continue to grow or did I learn a very valuable lesson?

Hi everyone!  This is our first year of maintaining a garden at our Early Education Facility.  We started all our plants from seeds and they are doing fantastic!  However, our carrots are not.  They were doing great, but then the squirrels came around and ate most of the green tops.  I built a netting around all our raised garden beds to deter the squirrels.  I just checked this morning, and the green tops that were left are now completely gone.  The netting is all still intact, so I'm not sure what happened.  So, my question is, will they continue to grow or did I learn a very valuable lesson?

Last year was our first year planting carrots and all the tops were eaten. When we turned the dirt over this spring we found some small carrots!  What a pleasant surprise.

Hi everyone!  This is our first year of maintaining a garden at our Early Education Facility.  We started all our plants from seeds and they are doing fantastic!  However, our carrots are not.  They were doing great, but then the squirrels came around and ate most of the green tops.  I built a netting around all our raised garden beds to deter the squirrels.  I just checked this morning, and the green tops that were left are now completely gone.  The netting is all still intact, so I'm not sure what happened.  So, my question is, will they continue to grow or did I learn a very valuable lesson?