My weeks so far seem either to be feast or famine for my harvest Monday posts. I have so much for times that I clear the garden. And so little when I'm trying to eat it all up. I still have a ton of Asian greens in the fridge. I've been eating them in just about everything.
I did pick some carrots and fresh dill for Thanksgiving. I had pounds of carrots in the fridge, but some were small and I wanted some larger ones. They don't look big in that photo to me, but the longest was a foot long. And they were over and inch wide at the top.
I had some minimal carrot fly damage on all of my carrots. It is simple to cut out, but I'm thinking they won't last long out there with the freezes and thaws. So maybe this coming week I'll pick a lot and freeze them. I do want to try to save some of the undamaged ones for fresh storage, but many of the carrots I eat are cooked so it is simple to store them frozen.
- Carrots 0.94 lbs
- Dill 0.13 lbs
- Weekly Total 20.15 lbs
- Weekly Spent $0
- Yearly Total 566.68 lbs
- Veggie Garden was worth $1263.82
- Fruit 1.87 lbs
Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to show off, add your name and link to Mr Linky below.
Your carrots look lovely and I am very envious of your dill - pretty much all of mine has died and I am at something of a loss to explain why.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful carrots Daphne! I have never grown a carrot that was a foot long!
ReplyDeleteWow, those carrots look really nice! The dill would I like to have now as well! But I did harvest som new potatoes today! Did a crasy experiment and it worked, though not a to big harvest... Have a nice day/evening! :) Mia
ReplyDeleteFoot long carrots? Awesome! I am hoping to have better luck growing carrots next year. I will try using a board or burlap like you have mentioned in the past. Then I will need to protect the bed to keep the neighborhood cats out.
ReplyDeleteMy carrot harvest was light this year due to carrot fly infestation problems. Only so much trimming away was possible as they really were infected. I am missing having a fall patch of carrots to dig into. Going to have to protect my carrots during the summer growing season to avoid the carrot fly problem this coming season.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful carrots and dill!
I often get a bit of carrot fly damage too but even these store fine in the ground. Because of the habit of stippling (tasting the end) and then storing, I wonder if the damage is slight and near the end, if they would still store? Not sure as I do like you and eat the damaged ones first.
ReplyDeleteI didn't get any dill this year, so yours looks especially beautiful to me :-) Your carrots look great, too! Such a rich orange!
ReplyDeleteFoot long carrots! You must have some nice soil. Thanks for showing what carrot fly damage looks like.
ReplyDeleteDaphne the carrots look great. A foot long that is a carrot. I grow short ones since the lower levels of my garden are very hard. No way to change that.
ReplyDeleteAm afraid I don't have any harvest to report today but have done some updating to my blog.
Love those carrots!
ReplyDeleteGreat looking carrots.
ReplyDeleteThose carrots look great!! I wish I could grow big carrots like that. My hard clay soil requires that I grow the smaller varieties but our crop is doing very well this year!!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever grown a carrot that was over a foot long. Next year, maybe I'll experiment with other varieties.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you have fresh dill this time of year. The variety I grow tens to flower early on and not do much less. Which variety do you grow? I think I'm gonna switch.
Thomas, it isn't the variety of dill that I have (though it is dill I've been growing for over a decade and no idea what variety). This dill is self seeded from dill that went to seed earlier in the year. The fall has been so warm that it has grown to about 8-12" tall. And it seems to be handling the cold pretty well. Most of it is actually in my paths and not in the beds.
ReplyDeleteThose carrots remind me of the ones my farmer had last year - so big he could hardly sell them!
ReplyDeletefresh carrots and dill at this time of the year. I'm very envious!
ReplyDeleteCarrot Root Fly is a major menace for me. I never have much success with carrots grown in the soil, but this year I grew some in containers raised up high, and they did much better, because the flies didn't find them till very late in the season.
ReplyDeleteWow, foot long carrots. I've been really lucky with carrot flies, so far so good, maybe growing them in container helps a bit.
ReplyDeleteYou always have such great looking carrots. I think I'll have to try growing some in containers next year, not to protect from carrot fly, but to keep them out of reach of gophers and moles. You had quite a good crop, 23 pounds already harvested and more left in the garden!
ReplyDeleteWish we have some fresh dill too. But ours already at the stage of collecting seeds. Your carrot look good.
ReplyDeletePretty pretty carrots!
ReplyDeleteWow.. foot long carrots that's impressive! I never knew what made those marks on carrots. Good to know what's out there munching on my veggies.
ReplyDeleteCarrots. Lucky duck. HOpefully I'll get some.
ReplyDeleteAmazing carrots! I do not have much luck with carrots. We did not grow carrots this year.
ReplyDeleteThanks for showing the carrot fly damage, now I'll know what that is!
ReplyDeleteI have still not been brave enough to try carrots (why this requires bravery, I don't know) but yours are very inspiring.
ReplyDeleteLike the other comments, I too am impressed with the length and size of your carrots and at this time of year they must be super sweet.
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