C is for Carrot!

I was watering the garden last week, thinking about how to tell when root vegetables are ready to be harvested. I had just come to the conclusion that I probably should research this question on the web when the water from my hose showed me the orange top of one of my carrots.

With trepidation I grasped the carrot top and pulled.... and out popped our first carrot! Since then I've gotten a little more daring, and I've learned a valuable lesson: plant the carrots farther apart. I just sewed a few more carrot seeds with that lesson in mind. In the pictures you'll see a carrot that was planted far enough away from its fellow carrots, and a bunch of carrots that were planted too close. It's like a mutant carrot monster... Still tasted good though!

Tomatoes are getting so big, but when will they ripen?

Climb beanstalk, climb!

I love carrots whole bunches.

A proper looking carrot.

Mutant carrots. Call Professor X!