Carrot patch is coming into bloom now with the central umbels of the earlier varieties in full bloom.
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Looking great!
My carrots are flowering now. The roots were the winners at a community taste selection last fall were I invited any guest for the event where Joseph came to speak to bring their carrots.
At the same event we did a mix of grexes. I had crosses about 7 cultivars, and two other colleagues had done the same. Then we mixed all our seed together and gave out to attendees that were interested to grow diverse carrots. I hope we’ll get to see some interesting results this year.
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This is awesome! I’m impressed.
Oooh, do carrot flowers attract ladybugs? If so, that would be a great reason to plant them right next to brassicas! Most of my brassicas get covered in scale aphids during my hot dry summers. (They do tend to survive just fine, and I’d rather harvest them in winter when they’re sweeter anyway, which is a time when the aphids are gone, but that coating of scale aphids over lots of the plants through the summer is kind of gross.)
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I can’t speak to that more generally. In this case upon closer inspection these flowers attracted ladybugs because they had a minor aphid infestation themselves. I suspect the ladybugs will manage it just fine (the flowers are not showing significant damage) and move on to my other aphid susceptible species later.
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Cool, makes sense!
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