Carrots

This year’s proud garden accomplishment has been carrots.  We got some red carrots at the farmers market several years ago so we started experimenting and searching for seeds.  We use carrots in our salads but also enjoy them roasted with potatoes and other root vegetables.  I grew some last year but not nearly enough.  This year I had some extra space in a free bed so I sprinkled whole seed packets in it: one orange and one red.  Wow did they ever take off.  They taste as good as they look. 

So when another bed became available after harvesting crowders I sprinkled another packet in it. These will over-winter. 

They are so sweet and grew bigger than I ever imagined they would. I will definitely be doing this again next year. The bed with the wire frame over it will overwinter under a cover.  They are the newest ones and still pretty small. The ones int he back will likely all be pulled before hard freezes set in.