I GREW A CARROT!!!!

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I GREW A CARROT!!!!

After so many seasons trying different ways to grow them and failing! There's just one, very tiny, but a carrot! ((( remember in my older posts how I saw something looking like carrot greens and you guys said it was just a weed??? )))

Also, my 'failed' potatoes made it! I thought they needed to flower before they produced spuds, but never saw flowers and then bugs ate the leaves overnight! Thought I had lost them all! But got a bunch!

Digging up potatoes is such a happy feeling, like finding gold! And they are yukon golds, too, lol!

You can see the tiny carrot and the potatoes in the picture.

You haven't known simple happiness until you've dug up your own tatters and your first carrot!!

 

[Carol Dee]

YEAH - you grew one this year. More next. Those potatoes look good. Enjoy.

 

[NwMtGardener]

Congrats!! You're so excited, that's awesome!!

I feel the same way about digging potatoes...buried treasure!! Funny story about digging potatoes: this year when i wanted some new potatoes for dinner one night, i asked my husband to dig some (thought he'd find it as interesting as I do). So...show him where the potato plants are (no honey, that's a zucchini...) and leave him to it. He comes back in the house a while later and says "boy this is really frustrating!" so i go outside to see what is so frustrating...he's got my tiny little planting and weeding trowel, all of like one and a half inches wide!! I hadnt considered that he had no idea to use the huge spade fork i have!! Doh!

 

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I use my hands.
Beds are peat moss, sand, rabbit poop, garden soil mixed together. Always fluffy and easy to work with.

 

[Smart Red]

When it comes to gardening, the first of anything is exciting. Congratulations on the carrot. It is beautiful and should be delicious. Carrots are not the easiest of veggies to grow because of their germination time and needs.

I have a garden harvest story that's a great family memory.

When my parents bought a new house, Dad wanted to plant a small garden - just for onions, potatoes, and a few tomatoes. Mom said, "NO! You are not tearing up my new yard."

Dad, being Dad, went ahead and tilled, raked, and prepared a place for "his" garden. He planted a few rows of onion sets, a few rows of potatoes, and half a dozen tomato plants.

It was a few short weeks later when Mom cooked onions and new potatoes for supper. When Dad got home and saw supper cooking, he went out to his garden to find that every onion and every potato plant had been dug up. "Why?" he asked, "Did you dig up every plant?"

Mom said she had felt like some onions and new potatoes and they were so small that she needed to dig them all just to get enough for the meal.

"They were bigger when I planted them," Dad said with a sigh. He never did plant another garden in his yard. He took over a part of my land instead. knowing Mom wouldn't be out in the field with bugs looking for something to eat.

 

[baymule]

Congrats on the carrot! I have planted lots of carrot seed and got my first carrot this spring. I have 3 packages of carrot seed to plant, waiting for the beastly heat to go away so they have a better chance of surviving. If I get a handful I'll be thrilled.

Beautiful carrot and potatoes!!

 

[journey11]

Wonderful! Enjoy your harvest!

 

[bj taylor]

I still have hopes of growing carrots

 

[canesisters]

That is just the cutest little thing!
Congrats!!!