Carrots

I have deep, loose soil in my garden, but carrots never seem to get very big. I've started buying seeds for shorter carrots and just pull them after 10 or 12 weeks. They taste wonderful and I enjoy my gourmet baby carrots!
In SFG, carrots are planted 16 seeds to a square...VERY time consuming with those tiny seeds! But, as the author said, there's no thinning, so no wasted seeds. I like carrots so much that I planted 2 whole packets this year. No seeds to save for next year.
The gardening season is winding down. My beans are finished. Tomatoes are ripening slowly. Onions are all pulled. So, mostly I'm getting carrots. The rhubarb is slowing down, but I think there's 1 more harvest of rhubarb.