Growing carrots requires patience – lots and lots of patience. But after almost 2 months, I finally have something to show.
I read in an old Southern Living Garden Book that it is vital to thin out the carrots at this point, removing some of the small carrots to make room for the rest. Easy. With all of the rain this summer in the Southeast, I have really been able to ignore the carrots and let them grow.
If you want to plant your own carrots in a 5 gallon bucket, read my original post [here].
If you are like me and treat the Anthropolgie’s website like Pinterest, then you too will notice that some of the expensive items they sell are actually really easy (and very cheap) projects you can make yourself. Take for example the store’s “Pomdelion Bouquet.” You can buy these yarn pom-pom flowers for $18 each or make as many as you want for less than $5.
I’ve made these flowers before and explained how to make them in a pervious post (aren’t I so trendy.) But I will give Anthropolgie’s credit for using the golden-yellow colored yarn. Lucky for me, my roommate had some leftover yarn of the same color from a Harry Potter scarf she made months before.
Once I made the pom-poms (again, see link posted above), I simply glued on a piece of green felt as the leaves and a piece of floral wire as the stem.
With a cute vase from Ikea, these yarn dandelions were the perfect addition to my cubicle at work.