Garden Medley

We decided to go ahead and pick the carrots from our garden. There was a pretty good number of them, but none grew terribly long. I think my husband is getting frustrated with our garden this year, since everything that looked to be growing well was more or less baked by the heat wave back in July.

All in all, though, the carrots did well. We grew some odd varieties, and in all honesty most of them made me not want to grow them again. Poor taste.

My daughter was quite excited about one carrot in particular that had grown out in three ways.

This has been a very frustrating year for vegetable gardening for us. We’ve had much more success in the past than we have had this year. I think the unusual heat wave did a lot of the plants in, even though we tried to keep them well watered.

We did leave a few carrots in the ground, just to see how they flower. I like the idea of letting the kids see the entire life cycle. I’m not sure that we’ll manage to keep them going long enough for that, as my understanding is that they flower in their second year, but only in some climates. I guess it will depend in part on how our winter goes.