Winter Carrots

The clouds were rolling through as I looked out onto the garden. Black and gray, and puffy white, as if on a migration. Winter is coming! Winter is coming! They seemed to shout.

In the garden, my carrot patch was calling to me. So I threw on a jacket and my trusty rubber boots for a little harvest.

Have you ever had a winter carrot? The ones that sit and grow sweeter by the day. That have a snappy crisp like no other. Oh, I wish you could.

This year, we planted a variety and each shovelful was a surprise. Purple, yellow, orange. You never know what you'll get.

And here's what I've learned with the carrot patch. Don't thin the plants in the patch I'm planning on for a winter harvest. They'll grow too big if they're thinned.

See what I mean? Thinned (left) vs. not (right):

I trust your Garden was willing to die ... I do not think that mine was—it perished with beautiful reluctance, like an evening star. ~Emily Dickinson

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Comments

[Cindy Gibb]

Those carrots look so good. I will have to go out to see the small patch that I left in the ground for Christmas dinner, I also leave parsnips in the ground for Christmas dinner. Something about digging veggies on Christmas Day.....I cover them with some straw so they are easy to dig up after I dig away the snow. Yum.

[Jennie]

We have been fortunate this year that the ground is not yet frozen, hard. Your carrots are beautiful. When I grew the colorful blend they were not as tasty as good ol' orange carrots, but the kids loved to pick them.

[Hollie Eastman]

yummers...so gorgeous and nothing tastes like home grown carrots!! enjoy=)

[sylvia fountaine]

Beautiful photos, and beautifully written.

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Serena,

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