Flowering carrots!

Yes! Carrots can produce flowers! How else do you think they produce seed for planting?

Do the flowers remind you of something else? Like maybe Queen Anne's Lace (aka wild carrot)? They have the same genus. Maybe parsley that's been allowed to flower? They are from the same scientific family.

Anyhow, back to my carrots. I left them in the ground a long time, so it makes sense that physiologically they thought it was time to flower. Like five months.

But what's beneath the surface tells another story.

As impressive as the tops were, the roots are rather puny. My pinky finger is the same diameter as some of these. Fertilizer is a good thing, but I didn't put it out often enough for these guys. Which also goes to show that what's in the soil around here is not enough by itself to grow a garden.