Sunday, May 4, 2025

Carrots started via corn starch gel method and burlap

Here's what I did:

- Soaked the seeds in water for a few hours.

- Made the gel by adding ~2 Tbsp corn starch to 2 cups cold water; simmering/whisking until it gels.

- Let the gel cool for several hours.

- Put the cool gel into a baggie; stirred in the carrot seeds.

- After loosening the soil, used a finger to draw troughs.

- Squeezed the carrot seed gel into the troughs. -- Pretty sure there are some longish stretches of no seeds in the gel --- consider using less gel with more carrot seeds.

- Pinched the soil over top.

- Mist-watered.

- Covered with double-layer of burlap.

- Watered the burlap.

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