These open pollinated carrot gems are a real treat. They are very sweet and tender and grow about 7 inches and 3/4th inch across at the top average but may grow bigger if you start them early in the spring right after the soil can be worked. Then continue to plant all season long for continuous harvests of young carrots. In mid summer plant a big crop to extend your season into the fall (and cover your carrot bed in late fall with hay bales for harvests in the middle of winter when the snow is on the ground-just pull off the bale of hay and dig in the winter-even when the surrounding soil is frozen-the hay will keep the soil, where the carrots are growing, from freezing thus ensuring harvests of carrots all the year round.) It is important to direct seed carrots rather than start indoors. Just work up the dry soil bed, use a hoe to make rows and then plant 5 seeds per inch. (If birds or snails are a problem consider covering the row with a board or similar cover till right when they come up-then uncover. If at first you don't succeed try try again. Sometimes it takes 3 sowings to get a good stand. Make sure you plant out in the open far enough away from other plants that may harbor snails or slugs. Try and scare away the birds. Once the little seedlings get established the pests usually leave alone. Insects are rarely a problem (do not plant in the same spot every year though or the soil could get built up with wire worms!) Use rich sandy or loamy soil enriched with organic compost, well rotted manure and/or leaf mold (or a combo). When the seedlings get several true leaves watch them grow-they grow fast! Harvest young for baby carrots. Save seeds by letting some plants over-winter-In the following year they will send up beautiful flower umbrells and make you lots of new seeds. Happy Gardening!