Giant fall carrots

Curiosity made me go pull one of the carrots, just to see what we had going on down there, under ground. Once the garlic was harvested, John put more compost on the garden, and voilá. we have a nine inch carrot! There still in the ground, snow covered, waiting for me to pull the remaining crop. Yummy!

Spring Carrot Harvest

I dug up our over-wintered carrots today--a much better harvest than I expected. Some rotted into a gooey mush, but overall, not too bad. The tiny ones will be snacks for Harley.

We need to get our seeds started this weekend. Now that I've removed the concrete blocks from the truck bed, we can rig up our light and mat system in the living room near the woodstove. It's time to get those long germinating, heat-loving plants started. The mercury should hit 60 today, enough to melt the last of the glacier in the garden. The frost went pretty deep, so we still need the soil to warm up before we can plant early cool crops.

Last beets harvested

Monday we dug the last of the beets and sampled some very sweet carrots. I worried that the beets would be frozen with the open winter we've had thus far. Even though we had mulched with leaves, it's been so cold I feared the frost would go too deep. I was pleasantly surprised, both the beets and the carrots were delicious!