This is where they lived before I uprooted them. Our raised bed gardens are built out of cinder blocks, and we have carrots and beets planted in every hole. The carrots above were brothers in this now-bare-naked hole. I almost got a hernia trying to pull them out - I think they liked their home. Sorry, guys...
Carrots in the outer holes, chard in the flatlands.
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ReplyDeleteYour vegetables are looking SO healthy.
Dancing, I showed you one of the better ones. There are a couple of beds that are crying' for love. :-)
ReplyDeleteAwesome carrots!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Diana. Yeah, they are. Our best year ever, I think.
ReplyDeleteWell, it certainly has never occurred to me to hubba hubba carrots..:).
ReplyDeleteYour garden does look mighty fine I must say. I might try cinder block gardening next year.
Foam, You probably don't live where the soil is mostly clay. Before we built our raised beds, our carrots were stunted in their growth by the fact that they couldn't push through the brick-like soil they were living in. New soil and tons of compost later.... ta-daaaa!
ReplyDeleteEverything about them looks better than the grocery-store equivalent!
ReplyDeleteThomas,
ReplyDeleteIsn't that true? They exude LIFE, as opposed to "Help! Get me out of this plastic bag! I've been suffocating for weeks!" ;-)
I love the cinder block idea. The garden looks beautiful. My chard got eaten early on by the 'lawn ornaments', so I'm glad to see yours.
ReplyDeleteG.G., Thank you for nourishing the lawn ornament - but it would have been nice of them to leave some for you. I wish that I could share my chard with you. We have so much! We've been eating it A LOT, sharing it, and freezing it.
DeleteWe put in cinder blocks when our wood frames rotted. Now we don't have to worry about such things again. :-)