Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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- Cindy Bryan
- Married 24 years to Keith. We're parents to a fantastic 9 year old whom I homeschool. We live in the country about 25 miles south of Montgomery, Alabama. We have an old pony named Cupcake and a teenage horse named Wrangler. Keith and I currently lead worship music at our church.
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You didn't know your garden is on top of an old nuclear waste dump, did you? :o)
It's a Neanderthal carrot. You know, short and stubby to retain heat and nutrients.
jim- come to think of it the few ears of corn we got were very strange. but we've been eating tomatoes like crazy. i'll let you know if my daughter grows horns or something.
erin- could be! maybe they sense my lack of knowledge and are developing in accordance with the backward nature of my gardening attempt!
this isn't even the weirdest. we've only gotten a couple that
look remotely right. this carrot is probably the largest overall so far, though one was significantly wider, if you can believe that!
i'm hoping someone might be able to bestow a little gardening wisdom. everything else seems to have gotten the right amount of plant food, but i have to think that perhaps the carrots don't need extra nutrients...
It certainly looks like an early harvesting carrot - they are generally short and stubby. However, if most have not really grown well then without any evidence of rot or virus then it may simply be one of two things - either aphids or your soil isn't right for them. Carrots are apparently hard to grow. This is my first year of trying and we are growing nantes - which are early harvesting ones, but so far they are very skinny and short. I'm hoping they thicken out over the next few weeks. Our potatoes, however, have really taken off. We had the first of the crop tonight!
lyn- enjoy your potatoes!
the strangest thing about this carrot may not be obvious from the photo- it's over 2 inches in diameter. so- short but way too thick. we ate a couple of small ones at lunch and they did taste a little strange. i don't think we'll grow carrots again. :-)
LOL ... I don't even want to tell you how long it took me to figure out why the spoon was in the picture.
Here's a carrot story for you ...
One year we grew carrots. But I forgot to harvest some of them. Some period of time later (as in more than one year and maybe two), my son was digging in the now defunct garden and dug up a seriously Neanderthal carrot!! It was like a foot cubed and warped almost beyond recognition. I wish we'd taken a picture of it ... but we were too overcome by the horror of it all. Who knew that carrots would just sort of keep growing????
LOL!
[Movie trailer voiceover]
"It's lurking in your garden...."
[quick dark shots of tangled vegetation]
"It's *growing* in your back yard..."
[ominous music]
"You've forgotten it, but it hasn't forgotten YOU."
[dah-DUM!]
"The Return of the Carrot - coming soon to select theaters and kitchens near you."
BTW, while all us Yanks were throwing ridicule and derisiveness your way, I LOVED how Lyn jumped in and good Brit (er, I mean soon-to-be-Canuck) that she is, offered solid gardening advice! It made my day. Really! :o)
sonja- that's hilarious! before this experience, i wouldn't have known how to picture your carrot, but after some of the bizarre shapes we've pulled up... it doesn't sound like you were any more inclined to continue with that crop than i am.
jim- between you and sonja i've just about decided to let one keep going and see what happens. it could make a good home movie.
It's a photo blog! It's a photo blog! I dare you to let one go 12 months and take pics once a month! And then, when you harvest the one-cubic-foot root next summer, there's a whole post about roasting it as one would a side of beef and serving it to the family.
That is...if you're brave enough! :o)
jim- it sounds like a plan! we have enough now that we could still harvest one a month--if the 8 yr. old who rightfully claims most of the carrot rights agrees.
except, ahem, i claim the right of refusal on actually eating the beast.
Cindy,
I triple dog dare you! Heck, think of it as 12 "free" blog posts - 12 days spread across 12 months where you don't have to come up with a topic to blog about. "Hey! It's been a while! I can write a carrot post!" I'd give a fingernail for that on this Blog365 gig! :o)
And of course eating it - at least a bite - is going to HAVE to be part of it!
"A bit chewy, but with a heart of insouciant earthiness..."
I think we should let one go for at least a year. IF it will fit in the grill we could smoke it and carve it like a Boston Butt or a turkey. Maybe we should let a bunch grow and give them as presents for Christmas 2009. Perhaps to blog friends!
LOL!! Love ya Jim!
OK I was at the coast and missed the development of this conversation, but it's been thoroughly entertaining.
(sonja said.)
im glad im not the only one.
i was like..
im not gonna comment no matter wut.
:)
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