Dan: Yeah, it’s crazy. I think this is my first season like this, with perfect rain, and just this steady mix of 65-70% cloudy days. It’s weird. Last year, it was straightforward really wet and cloudy. This year, it’s hard to remember it even only a couple months in as being cloudy, because the temperature is good, and the sunny days are great. I imagine it’s not just the lack of sun, but also switching back and forth every few days from bursts of “normal” summer to…cloud, that’s messing up the growing cycles. More nutty climate change weather, I guess.

David: I hope so! :) They’ll get blunter. These are only babies, about 1/2″ diameter at the top. As far as I can remember, all carrots start out pointy and the blunt-tip and cylindrical ones fill out when they get big. I’ll check when the Touchon, another Nantes type, get a bit bigger. Also, as Janet mentioned, they grow kinda variable. I think I read that Nelson is a Nantes/Imperator hybrid (cylindrical/pointy), which might explain that.

janet: Yikes! Twitter is like…digital crack. The virtual farm is falling apart while I’m obsessively reading and retweeting all this mainly alarming stuff. Way worse than listening to the news. And it’s draining (but kinda fascinating) following active activists. Salmon fisheries collapsing here, Monsanto getting into GM wheat over there, hundreds of thousands of acres of US farmland being sanitized against E coli,…it doesn’t stop. And then there’s the 60-second video cooking tips. OMG. I gotta get out. And back to the blog. Soon! :) Thanks for the poke!!