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Quick Post this morning!
Sunday, my son and family came to help us with the yard. We got the backyard pretty well cleaned up and the Caladium and Dahlia bulbs dug up to store. All the smaller pots cleaned and emptied and stored. Most of the dirt from the pots went into the bin in the greenhouse, and the pots that I use to start things are there also.
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Since I still can't bend over or exert more than 10# lifting or pushing, my D-in Love dug up all the beets and Carrots and Parsnips. I knew they would be pretty good if slugs didn't get at them. All the greens have been rich and lustrous.
I made Beet Soup in August when I did the last thinning and had lots of small beets, and the soup was delicious.
 The Carrot patch was going to be a mystery, because when I thinned twice they were very tiny. I watered heavily two days before, so they came up pretty easy except for the really long parsnips. | ||
 Here is what I planted last Spring. Dates I have are 5/16-18 into the ground. This was the last area of the garden to be planted besides transplanting peppers and tomatoes.  Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds Parsnips... wait unti you see.  New variety I tried, Danver by Ferry Morris. Normally I do Chantenay but they are really small. The Danvers An incredibly sweet, stubby, carrot for mass planting.  I tried this blend, thinking of roasted carrots for the Holidays.  I tried a bit of old seeds ..these are Faxil Rainbow Carrots. All the areas of carrots came up thick! I planted two kinds of beets...  Detroit Beets are the workhorse of home gardens. We always get beets from them, but the critters and bugs loved them too. So this year I planted all my roots in semi-shade in a different area.  This is roughly a Gallon of Beets. YUM and all a pretty nice size. I will get maybe two jars of small beets for pickled beets. The others were those tape strips-not sharing the package (Burpee)---which performed Very poorly...compared to everything else---and only 6" away from all the wonderful beets and carrots we did GET! Here's Our Haul!  Lots of CARROTS, there are some other small carrots in here besides the Danvers. We sorted according to size. My D-in-Love took a big bag of everything home. These photos are after she got paid in produce...lol. This bowl is 18" wide for scale!  These are our large Carrots and Parsnips. This is a HUGE Bowl -18 inches, WOW!  We did a hose scrub. I'm storing them like this in our porch fridge, instead of scrubbing them so clean they spoil fast. I can always scrub them before cooking. I have lots of recipe's planned. This is the area that I blocked off with fine mesh over our normal fencing. Clearly the bunnies didn't get in here.... YAY! HOW WAS YOUR HARVEST? If You enjoyed this post please FOLLOW IT in the upper right hand corner, to get just one email of each AD-Free post. I will post at the following Link Parties, I hope you visit them.
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Wow! What a carrot haul! Oh, I am envisioning many gorgeous roasted carrot dishes in your future. Fabulous!
ReplyDeleteOh, they are so sweet, may just do roasting with rosemary and lemon. Hugs, Sandi
DeleteSo many carrots! I am jealous haha those are always my favorite.
ReplyDeleteWe've been slugged in the past, and this time they were all perfect, thanks for stopping by, Sandi
DeleteSuch a great harvest. My beets did well this year too, and beans. I never heard of beet soup before. I will have to look for a recipe. Visiting from Funtastic Friday.
ReplyDeleteHi, Amy. I did the beet soup in spring when I thinned them, I will find the recipe and post it with the new batch I'm goin to make. Thanks for visiting, (I'll try and remember to send it to you or post a link here,) Sandi
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