Backyard Carrot Harvest

We decided to pull up all the carrots from our hoop house on Tuesday. It’s been so unseasonably warm and dry that they weren’t doing very well. The tops were starting to look depressed so we just harvested them.

Normally we would wait until early March when the ground thawed out and we were getting ready for spring planting–However, our ground is currently not anywhere near frozen–such strange weather. . .

I was amazed by how long some of the carrot roots got with these long stringy roots on the tips that went deep into the ground.

This was a yellow carrot variety which you could see better once we got the dirt hosed off. We also planted a purple carrot variety, but they didn’t grow at all for us.

Jonas was ready to eat the carrots fresh, and we chopped up more to steam and add to pasta that night. We still have more to use and we are loving doing so.

Baby Carrots

Wen we prepared our garden plot for fall gardening we had a few small carrots in the way. There were supposed to be more but they, um. . .didn’t make it.

The kids were so interested to pull those carrots out of the ground.

A little too fuzzy for you?

Cleaned up a little bit it’s irresistible.

There’s a pretty dense patch of carrots left that is growing well in the cool fall weather.  They’re supposed to sweeten up quite a bit when the nights start freezing–I’m interested to try.

The plot we cleared the stray carrots from now has little beets growing in it.  Fall gardening is still highly experimental for me, but this year is looking good so far.