Carrots, potatoes...and oh boy, here they come!

[MontyJ]

On the right are the Red Cored Chantenay carrots. They grow very well in harder shallow soils. The larger ones will be canned with some of the Kennebecs I dug this morning. The smaller ones will be steam blanched and frozen as baby carrots. Looks like the taters are doing great, as I only had to dig a few plants to get enough for today's canning project. The larger taters will go with the carrots, anything left will be canned seperately.

And I found a small mess of cukes ready. While picking them, I discovered many, many, many baby ones...so, oh boy, here they come!!! I'll be picking those every day now.

 

[thistlebloom]

Looks wonderful Monty! I guess we know where you'll be today.

 

[Southern Gardener]

Nice haul Monty!!!

 

[dewdropsinwv]

Looks wonderful Monty! I guess we know where you'll be today.

Already sarted. Going to be another long day I think.... oh well it's worth it.

 

[dewdropsinwv]

Looks wonderful Monty! I guess we know where you'll be today.

Already started. Going to be another long day I think.... oh well it's worth it.

 

[bj taylor]

that is so beautiful! I have never grown carrots. that makes me want to.

 

[majorcatfish]

looking good you 2

all you need now is a couple ribeyes on the grill and a cobbler in the oven.,, um time should we show up for dinner ?

 

[dewdropsinwv]

looking good you 2

all you need now is a couple ribeyes on the grill and a cobbler in the oven.,, um time should we show up for dinner ?

lol major, it's raining here again!!!! but we sure are thankful for the cool down!!! Hopefully next weekend we can do the cobbler and steak

 

[Carol Dee]

Mmm love garden fresh carrots. They best (and only) carrots we ever grew where planted under where the rabbit hutch stood for a few years! We have tried and failed many times since. So... do you can all the potatoes? Or keep some in a root cellar? Looks like we are in for a bumper crop of taters. Right now the zucchini and cucumbers are overrunning us.

 

[dewdropsinwv]

Carol, we keep some potatoes for us. It's just so nice to open a jar of potatoes and carrots and dump them in some beef soup.....mmmmm we use all of the potatoes even the little ones!!! We just peeled a bunch of little ones for new potatoes, and sliced them to can.