I know i have said before that I am a lazy gardner...and although I have a large garden I go through spurts of being a superb gardener...mulching, fertlizing ect.. and a lazy gardner.
Last year I planted a bunch of carrots (still no idea why) and yes in my lazy gardening ways never did anything. I never even took them out of the ground.
So i am now in a spurt of being the good gardner and have been cleaning up my garden ect.. and came upon my carrots. Low and behold said carrots are pretty much well entact... I dug up a couple and they look like they weathered the entire winter snuggly and fine in my dirt. Hmmm , so i havent tried eating one yet... they maybe rubbery or nasty... so now I have carrot dilemma again. I have a bunch of carrots still slumbering in my garden... and *i think* i can dig em up and eat um.
So now i have carrot guilt. Because i probably will not do that.. they will probably end up in my composer..or my garbage.. yes i know lazy gardner syndrome.
I need to do a much better job of deciding what I REALLY am going to eat and use and plant only that... because at the end of the season i have noone to help my can ( i can use that excuse cant i?) ..so alot goes to waste... BUT i get so EXCITED at the beginning of the season planning my tomatoes, cukes, zuchinni and such of COURSE i will use it all
This year I will have a resolution to not go overboard....so i wont have carrot guilt..
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2 years ago
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I think you can be excused for not eating carrots that have been in the ground for a year...I planted carrots last year and none of them made it. I think bugs got them before they ever had a chance. I am a lazy gardener in the sense that I procrastinate and plant things too late, or I forget to water and they die. I rarely ever get any good crops of anything, though I'm improving.
When we were turning the soil a week or so ago, we found a carrot that I'd missed last year. R ate the whole thing even though it was really huge. He carried it around with him for a couple of hours gnawing on it. I had a bite and it was still sweet and crunchy.
The carrots should be good. How about freezing them. Peel, cut up, blanch, and freeze. Then you can eat them all year.
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