On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:30:57 -0400, Wilson wrote:

sometime in the recent past General Schvantzkopf posted this:
My carrots are only about an inch long, has anyone else done any better
than that in New England this year?
I'm growing in only a 9.5" raised bed, so they tend to be short. But my
carrots are better than an 1" around and about 5" long. We didn't get
the excess rain everywhere else and I'm assuming you thinned them,
right?

No I didn't thin them, would that really make such a big difference?