Gallons of Carrots

 

Saturday's haul - this is less than half of the total harvested

Over the weekend I spent almost 3 hours hours harvesting and washing around 7 gallons of carrots from my garden.  Earlier in April I had harvested about a gallon (click here for post) - so that's about 8 gallons total of 'over-wintered-in-the-garden' carrots that I harvested this spring.  That's a lot of carrots.  Actually I think it is more than we can eat, and I have been giving away bags of carrots.  The rest I am storing in my refrigerator, and I think we are set for carrots until I start harvesting this year's crop in August.  Next Fall I plan on harvesting more of the carrots and over-wintering less so as to balance out the seasonal abundance.  Last Fall I only harvested enough to get us through December or so.  

It's kind of amazing how well the carrots did buried in leaves and tarped in my garden over the winter.  They taste sweeter than they did in the fall!  I know the garden froze solid all winter but the insulation kept them from thawing out repeatedly, and so without the freeze/thaw cycle they did not turn to mush.

Also further below in the post is some more pictures of blueberry blossoms.  Every year I try and take a decent blueberry blossom picture.  This year I tried the color select thing again, and I think I like the ones where I chose 'green' because it makes the blueberry blossoms stand out as pure white.  But I also like the one where I chose 'red' because it accentuated the red stalks.

Patrick

Sunday's carrots before getting washed

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