October 31, 2006
Carrots
Maryellen picking carrots
Maryellen and Cornelia picked about 500 pounds of carrots this morning. We had to get them out of the ground before the ground froze solid. So the carrots now sit in the cooler, unwashed. We can then wash and sort them as we need them over the next few weeks. These carrots are really yummy because frosty weather sweetens them up.
We are also trying an experiment with putting hay mulch on some of the remaining carrots. That should keep the ground around those carrots from freezing for another couple of weeks, so that we can go make one more haul around mid-November -- just in time for the Mad River Valley Thanksgiving weekend market that we signed up for on Nov. 18th.
One of 16 or so tubs of carrots
P.S. Happy Halloween!!!
Posted by peter at October 31, 2006 02:52 PMI do love those sweet carrots after the frost. Yum!
Posted by: Katie at October 31, 2006 04:21 PMGrowing carrots through the winter under mulch works! I haven't done it successfully myself (carrots just don't grow at our farm anyway...), but a good friend of mine has done it relatively successfully. HEAVY mulch is the key -- at least a foot outside of the bed. Good heavy snowcover helps too. Good luck!
Posted by: Pat at November 1, 2006 09:46 AM