Carrots! (and some parsnips)

I know that I've been a lazy bum and I haven't added anything to the blog in a while, but how interesting would it be to say "Hey, I weeded again today... same as a week ago..." and "here's a picture of my weeded garden."

So I've been harvesting the carrots for the last few weeks and they have been excellent. Some are a bit funny looking, like the one above, but most only have one main root. They are a bit stumpier looking than the ones that you find in the store, but they taste great! They are definitely crisper than the ones available in stores, probably because by the time that I buy them they are already a few days old.

The parsnips, on the other hand, haven't given me as big of a yield as the carrots have. The one pictured above is a bit nicked up because I had to dig a bit to get it out of the ground.

I chopped these two up and steamed them together for dinner tonight.

Carrots, parsnips, spinach, and beets are in the ground

Last Sunday I put my seeds for carrots, parsnips, spinach, and beets in the ground.  Above is a picture of the holes I poked for the carrots.  I planted the carrots along the south edge, the parsnips along the north edge, the beets along the east edge, and the spinach along the west edge bordering the herbs.  As these seeds (hopefully) start popping up I will plant rows of the same plant behind them working towards the middle of the plot.

In some places I had to push down really hard to make those indents.  This is because there is a lot of clay in the soil.  I spread a thin layer of compost from the Earth Machine all over the rest of the plot.  It hasn't been very rainy in the last week, so I need to make sure I water everything before I head off to work.