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Serious carrot
The comm's been dormant over the northern-hemisphere winter, but it's about time for things to start waking up outside.
It's a beautiful day out and I'd like to be digging in the raised beds, but they're gooey mud right now (hence the need to dig and amend and hopefully get them draining better. come to me, vermiculite, my beloved.) so maybe that's better left until things have had a little time to dry out. In the mean time, the seeds in trays are starting to show some mojo.
I got a freak crop of carrots this winter -- I planted them, I dunno, wrong last spring. Or if not wrong, then against their secret carroty desires. Anyway, they never really took off over the summer, and then in the fall they started sprouting up when I'd all but given up, and (being root veg) made it through the coldest winter we've had in ages, and when I came out of hibernation to check out the state of the patch, there they were, green as you'd like above ground, freakish and short and knobby and loaded with the kind of SERIOUS CARROT flavor you never get in a plastic bag under the surface.
Carrots straight out of the ground are one of those archetypal garden things for me. The line from dirt to growing to food is so direct, plus, well, yum. So getting a bonus bunch of them when I wasn't expecting to find anything but cleanup is extra-fabulous.
(And now back to dealing with the mud.)
It's a beautiful day out and I'd like to be digging in the raised beds, but they're gooey mud right now (hence the need to dig and amend and hopefully get them draining better. come to me, vermiculite, my beloved.) so maybe that's better left until things have had a little time to dry out. In the mean time, the seeds in trays are starting to show some mojo.
I got a freak crop of carrots this winter -- I planted them, I dunno, wrong last spring. Or if not wrong, then against their secret carroty desires. Anyway, they never really took off over the summer, and then in the fall they started sprouting up when I'd all but given up, and (being root veg) made it through the coldest winter we've had in ages, and when I came out of hibernation to check out the state of the patch, there they were, green as you'd like above ground, freakish and short and knobby and loaded with the kind of SERIOUS CARROT flavor you never get in a plastic bag under the surface.
Carrots straight out of the ground are one of those archetypal garden things for me. The line from dirt to growing to food is so direct, plus, well, yum. So getting a bonus bunch of them when I wasn't expecting to find anything but cleanup is extra-fabulous.
(And now back to dealing with the mud.)
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I decided to focus on my herbs and tea making this year. I buy so much tea, it would be so much more satisfying to grow the stuff I like and dry it. And nothing beats filling up my spice jars with freshly harvested and dried herbs.
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