I didn't have much time for planting either. I half-heartedly threw potatoes in every available empty container - a bushel basket, some terra cotta pots, large plastic nursery pots, and a mound fashioned out of stakes and leftover chicken coop.
My potatoes this fall.
Oh yeah baby! My not so hard work paid off as I hauled in this New Year's harvest (plus some additional mandarins).
And check out this last carrot that I pulled up? Remember when I confessed that I could not grow carrots? All that is in the past. This supersized sucker makes me legit! I'm a real gardener now!
Happiest New Year from me and my first time ever late December harvest!
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9 comments:
That carrot is amazing!!
Congrats on your harvest! Doesn't it feel amazing to harvest anything this time of year???
wow, great carrot, I've haven't mastered carrots yet. I'd love to ask what your secret it, but from your post it sounds like there isn't one! You must have good soil though, for them to be so straight. I look forward to reading more...
@Frogdancer - I know!!! :D
@Bee Girl - It does. I've never harvested this late. I was kind of regretting it in September because I needed a break but now I'm loving it.
@Farmer_Liz - Right you are. I have no idea how it worked. I planted them in raised beds with some greens (which never came up). The soil is pretty loose in their. Oh, I was good about thinning out this time which I usually am terrible at. That and ignoring them, I have no idea.
You are officially a legit gardener in my book-look at that carrot! I've tried many times to grow carrots and failed over and over again. Congrats!
Thank you, Lori! I'm glad I'm not the only one who has struggled with growing carrots in the past. :)
Jealous.
I have a large 6' x 24' container garden that I built the very first week I moved into my home, six years ago. It has worked hard for me, spring through fall, since then and this is the first year I'm letting it rest. I've revived the soil with fertilizer and compost and plan on seeding the garden in early February because North Carolina just gets too hot, too soon.
Because the garden bed is at least 8 inches below the top edge, it seems to stay warmer inside that garden and I rarely pull my carrots and onions, until I need them. Your potato condo absolutely fascinates me and I'm going to try to build one. I was very successful, one year, just putting a bale of hay over my seed potatoes. That was fun. Come visit when you can.
Oh Sharlene, I think I might try the bale of hay/potato thing. That's really cool!
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