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Health & Fitness

Edible Garden Connections: The Conversation Starts with Disappearing Carrots

I turn to my garden guru to solve a mystery.

What to do when the carrots won’t thrive? That question is currently haunting me as almost as soon as their green tops start popping up in my garden they disappear.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a conundrum. I’m a science teacher after all and spend my days encouraging children to ask questions and explore. My garden, and the one I manage at Havens Elementary School, are both ongoing daily experiments— attests to that.

But a gardener needs someone to talk to, to share the successes, lament the failures, and most importantly to work through those burning questions. There are the professionals of course, but the local nursery's answer to my carrot question, “get over it, you can’t grow carrots,” wasn’t very satisfying.

Instead, I’ve found my garden guru and friend in Bill Drum, local gardening expert and co-founder of the Piedmont Harvest Festival. Every time I run into him he has a juicy tidbit to share, and I trust he’s been mulling over my carrot question since I mentioned it. All gardeners thrive on sharing, and he’s a community resource par excellence.  

Although I subscribe to a few gardening newsletters, I’ve been craving something more local and personal. So, rather selfishly, I proposed to Mr. Drum that we blog. He jumped on board and here we are.

Bill’s our resident expert, I’m the experimentalist, and we invite all of you to join our conversation. Watch for us on Piedmont Patch under the title Edible Garden Connections. And if you come across any solutions to my carrot conundrum, you know where to find me.

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