Well, it was time. We harvested our carrot patch today. The frost was making the greens look bad and to be honest, I predicted that they would mostly be pretty small. Apparently I am a fortuneteller, because they were really pretty puny.

We used a small spade to turn over the dirt and the girls picked the little root babies out of their bed. We had lots of little one, but like our corn, they were dwarf varieties apparently! Even though they were supposed to be like 6-7 inches long, I don’t think we got a single one to hit the 6 inch mark. We had made the soil fluffy and loose before planting, but again, I think that using just the top soil without enough composted material just made for so so results in the beds.

We’ve hit the 85 pound mark… not counting the sunflower seeds. (I was going to include them, but since we’re not eating them, I think I’m going to not include them. If I did, I would guess about 8-10 pounds so far, the last batch of heads was very numerous and heavy with seed! I’m not unhappy at all… in fact, I’m pretty pleased. We still have some peppers that are hanging in there and broccoli, but I doubt it’s more than a couple pounds at best. And our one apple is about ready for harvest! I would have LOVED to hit the 100 pounds of produce mark… but next year, you watch out! We will definitely get there… I’m already plotting and planning for the next year!!!

There were plenty of the little fingerlings… and I think they will make a great addition to the crockpot when we make some yummy chicken noodle soup this week. I’m just going to wash them up good and chop off the top and that will be that. No way to peel those little dudes!

We did have a few that tried extra hard… one was almost 4 inches long!!! How exciting! Those will be extra special, eh? I am going to be searching the internet for prize winning techniques for bigger and better carrots! I want to grow some of those purple carrots too…. those look neat. I think I will be moving them to the south side of the moby where there is near constant sun to really get a good grow on. That’s the plan…