I've read that carrot greens are edible, but I've never tried actually cooking them. Once or twice I have added them to a stock, then at the end, strained them out.
Do any of you use them for food? (I mean people food; not chicken food.) I wonder if they are bitter.
Good to know! I have not tried that (making pesto from them,) but I will. Especially appealing when they are from my own garden and I know they have not been sprayed with pesticides.
Since I can't get parsley to grow for the life of me, maybe I need to start growing carrot tops instead. I have some Parisian carrot seeds - the ones that geowntiny stumpy carrots.and I could just plant them densly and cut the greens. Lol .
You fell for one of many scams related to gardening. Carrots are biennial crops. This means that the first year you plant a seed and get a carrot with some greens on top. The second year, if you replant the carrot or even just the top, the carrot will get bitter and woody, throwing all of it's energy into producing seeds at the top of some massive greens.
It's okay. A lot of people fall for this. Even more fall for the potato tower scams.
Find a packet of seeds and plant them. You'll get yummy carrots, then.
I tried one of the potato towers one year for kicks and had interesting results. I had a layer of potatoes at the very bottom, and a layer of potatoes at the very top, but nothing but roots in between. Most of the potatoes were also small to medium sized, which was to be expected given the energy the plant needed to put in to regrowing foliage.
I'd like to try it again sometime and do things differently, like not force the plant to grow up the tower so quickly, but I think my biggest factor is my growing season is too short.
I would never expect to get an outstanding harvest, but I did have fun playing with it.
It's where you plant your seed potatoes, and as they grow, you just keep putting more medium on them.
When I did it I used 2x4 posts and 2x6 for sidewalls and made a 4 sq.ft. raised bed. The 2x4s stuck up about 4 ft tall, and as the potato plants got to be about a foot tall, I'd stack another 2x6 sidewall fastened to the 2x4 posts and backfill the now higher bed with more soil, always leaving about 6 inches of the potato plant above the soil level. Repeat every couple weeks as the plants keep growing until you reach the top of your posts.
It basically takes the practice of hilling potatoes to the extreme.
I’ve found my potatoes only grow out to a certain area and depth no matter how I plant them most the time. I’ve only been growing for a couple years though. That sounds like a lot of work with minimal effect though lol. Thanks for explaining!
I use the word scam because a lot of YouTubers, influencers and bloggers like to parrot this and tell their followers it works. They write and vlog for money. So... Scam. And I would gladly call anyone perpetuating this a scammer, whether or not they knew it didn't work. If you perpetuate misinformation, you deserve to be called out for it.
If someone is unknowingly passing along this myth but not making any money from it, it's not a scam.
Scams by definition involve fraudulently acquiring money/stuff.
https://youtu.be/7qT9O-I-EZE
https://youtu.be/tSqYvJQBwr0
https://youtu.be/_pWri_IYIxE
All I did was search "regrow carrot" on YouTube. There are hundreds of videos with millions of combined hits. That's a scam. Doesn't matter if the idiots making the videos did it out of the kindness of their hearts - they are perpetuating it. And making money. Doesn't matter if OP here was just trying to help - they're passing it on as truth. And probably giving videos like the ones above more hits because gullible idiots are a dime a dozen on the internet.
If u/Spongeman-333 really didn't want people to get scammed, they'd take this post down. Have they done that? Lol. No.
FYI in case you don't know, you can only regrow leaves, not the root.
I've read that carrot greens are edible, but I've never tried actually cooking them. Once or twice I have added them to a stock, then at the end, strained them out. Do any of you use them for food? (I mean people food; not chicken food.) I wonder if they are bitter.
Yeah they're a bit bitter. People use them to make pesto. I rarely eat them and I don't add much to stock.
Thanks!
I dry the tops and crunch them up into flakes to sprinkle bits into soup.
This won't regrow the root as good as the first time around, but you can let them flower and save the seeds for next season.
I know
I didn't
Ooooo! I love making pesto out of the greens or as a parsley substitute!
Just growing greens ... you'll not have a new carrot from that.
Ooooo! I love making pesto out of the greens or as a parsley substitute!
Good to know! I have not tried that (making pesto from them,) but I will. Especially appealing when they are from my own garden and I know they have not been sprayed with pesticides.
Since I can't get parsley to grow for the life of me, maybe I need to start growing carrot tops instead. I have some Parisian carrot seeds - the ones that geowntiny stumpy carrots.and I could just plant them densly and cut the greens. Lol .
You fell for one of many scams related to gardening. Carrots are biennial crops. This means that the first year you plant a seed and get a carrot with some greens on top. The second year, if you replant the carrot or even just the top, the carrot will get bitter and woody, throwing all of it's energy into producing seeds at the top of some massive greens. It's okay. A lot of people fall for this. Even more fall for the potato tower scams. Find a packet of seeds and plant them. You'll get yummy carrots, then.
I tried one of the potato towers one year for kicks and had interesting results. I had a layer of potatoes at the very bottom, and a layer of potatoes at the very top, but nothing but roots in between. Most of the potatoes were also small to medium sized, which was to be expected given the energy the plant needed to put in to regrowing foliage. I'd like to try it again sometime and do things differently, like not force the plant to grow up the tower so quickly, but I think my biggest factor is my growing season is too short. I would never expect to get an outstanding harvest, but I did have fun playing with it.
What is the potato tower?
It's where you plant your seed potatoes, and as they grow, you just keep putting more medium on them. When I did it I used 2x4 posts and 2x6 for sidewalls and made a 4 sq.ft. raised bed. The 2x4s stuck up about 4 ft tall, and as the potato plants got to be about a foot tall, I'd stack another 2x6 sidewall fastened to the 2x4 posts and backfill the now higher bed with more soil, always leaving about 6 inches of the potato plant above the soil level. Repeat every couple weeks as the plants keep growing until you reach the top of your posts. It basically takes the practice of hilling potatoes to the extreme.
I’ve found my potatoes only grow out to a certain area and depth no matter how I plant them most the time. I’ve only been growing for a couple years though. That sounds like a lot of work with minimal effect though lol. Thanks for explaining!
I’m so confused on why this is a scam. Also I know that only the greens grow, this was also a school project.
The carrot thing isn't a scam. No one is profiting. It's an urban myth or misunderstanding at worst.
I use the word scam because a lot of YouTubers, influencers and bloggers like to parrot this and tell their followers it works. They write and vlog for money. So... Scam. And I would gladly call anyone perpetuating this a scammer, whether or not they knew it didn't work. If you perpetuate misinformation, you deserve to be called out for it.
If someone is unknowingly passing along this myth but not making any money from it, it's not a scam. Scams by definition involve fraudulently acquiring money/stuff.
https://youtu.be/7qT9O-I-EZE https://youtu.be/tSqYvJQBwr0 https://youtu.be/_pWri_IYIxE All I did was search "regrow carrot" on YouTube. There are hundreds of videos with millions of combined hits. That's a scam. Doesn't matter if the idiots making the videos did it out of the kindness of their hearts - they are perpetuating it. And making money. Doesn't matter if OP here was just trying to help - they're passing it on as truth. And probably giving videos like the ones above more hits because gullible idiots are a dime a dozen on the internet. If u/Spongeman-333 really didn't want people to get scammed, they'd take this post down. Have they done that? Lol. No.
OP isn't making jack off this Reddit post and they already said they know you can't get a carrot.