“...fall and winter months are a great time in Texas to plant the cool weather plants like carrots, in order to avoid the scorching heat of summer.”
I believe it since they are doing so well. I think I’d have to plant carrots/turnips in early March (if we have a freeze, it usually happens in Feb. here), in order to get any carrots/turnips by the middle of June at the latest. Don’t think they would make it through June when the heat really starts in June.
Story about June: When my husband was the Republican County Chair, we had to go to every state convention. The convention is always in June. In May, I would think this isn’t so bad, June will surely be okay. Every single time, I would nearly melt at the convention because you have to walk so much and a lot of it is outside to go from place to place. After about five years of trying to talk myself into thinking June won’t be so bad, the next five years I faced facts and knew I was going to burn up.
Those of us who had been going to convention for several years would be able to pick out the ones being there the first time. They wore nice clothes, dressed up, some women would even wear heels. At their next convention, they would be like us, wearing the coolest garb one had and flat comfortable shoes. That is a work convention, not a “look at me” convention.
Another story about convention: One presidential election year, the first time Hussein won, Ron Paul had pushed to get his young college men as delegates to our state convention so they could try to go to national convention and try to get Paul nominated or just cause trouble. We knew that so we tried to identify the Paul young men. After I had been at convention a few hours, I told one of our state officers it is easy to find them. They all wore suits - young men dressed to the teeth in a suit. She spread the word and we kept these Paul people, or most of them, from being delegates. I don’t know if any were selected but I don’t think any were in my congressional district. No man wears a suit to this hot convention, but the Paul men did. They looked out of place.
Also, every one I saw, carried a brief case. I sat by three of them in my district and it was a blast. They didn’t know how conventions worked so they didn’t know what was coming next. I was helpful and explained what was happening, explained how we voted individually, knowing all the time these guys were not going to be selected as delegates.
If you are going to infiltrate the “enemy”, you need to look like the enemies.
So, I know for sure, June is HOT in Texas.
I’ll bet you can just cover up those carrots for a bit in February, and they’ll do just fine.
While I didn’t get to it this year, I usually plant a batch of carrots in the fall, then cover them up with a row cover, and eventually a bunch of straw. Then I have carrots to dig up around March. If I plant them early enough, I can even have some in the winter by just lifting a corner and digging up a few to go in my veggie soup.