Carrots Growing in Winter - March Update!

In December, I planted carrots seeds outside before it got REALLY cold.  This was before I had any idea that it might get down to under 20 degrees for a week straight here.  I expected a couple of subfreezing nights, and the rest rather temperate.  Ha!  Not so much.  So, these carrot seeds hung around outside in the cold all winter, and now that the weather has warmed up (it was 85 today), they are germinating and growing happily.  Yes, I know there will still be a few more freezes, but I think these carrots can handle it.  These were special carrots - Carnival and Purple Dragon!  The ones you see here germinated a few weeks ago and are doing well.

Here also.  I filled in the blank spaces with some more seeds, so lets hope for a zillion carrots in 60 days!

This plastic half whiskey barrel did the best.... quite a few carrots from December.

Look at this pretty carrot fluff!

The seeds I added were not the special ones... they are standard hybrid Burpee carrots.  I'm waiting until the last freeze before I put the special seeds that are left in the raised bed.   Short 'n Sweet...   YUM

Here's what they look like today - March 15th.   I expect fluff by mid April and carrots in May.

Here's another half whiskey barrel.  This is another result altogether.  These carrots germinated in December, and have been pathetically struggling through the cold weather.  The difference here is that the greens never died off, they just froze every night and kept going.  I expect in 30 days I could have some nice carrots here, but we'll see.