Look at all this stuff!
The gardens have been so productive these last several weeks. Let's start with the spaghetti squash!
This squash plant is located in our furthest garden in Blewett in a pile of sod removed from a field that we turned into vegetable beds. Christoph covered the sod with clear plastic in an attempt to solarize and kill it, then punctured holes for the squash plants. He also filled the pit with lots of alfalfa pellets for food. It looks like squash really like the warm soil! It's producing oodles of oval fruit.
A wonderful volunteer, Dana, was a great help in weeding and thinning the carrots, kale and collards we have planted in Judy's garden up on Park St.
And just look at these beautiful heads of Romaine... they're growing in what used to be a well-tended to Italian garden, so it's no wonder they got so big.
Our best-looking beds of baby greens yet – Sarah & Andreas's backyard terraced garden. This again had been a well-tended to Italian garden for years prior to our taking it over. I guess manure makes a difference. As you can see in the first photo, the terraces were planted in succession so that we would have a continuous harvest over several weeks.
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I'm glad too!
Yes - I've had other, more multilegged carrots. And a couple of funny potatoes, too. I didn't know vegetables could be such good comedians. Maybe a page of funny vegetable photos?
Reclining Carrot
The squash plant looks magnificent! It makes a lot of sense to do it that way. My squashes have rambled all over the grass now, so I can't grass the grass, and it's getting messy. I've got some canteloupes coming, too, if the weather holds out. Squashes are getting there, but the 'loupes are still small.
I think I mentioned I tried planting carrots two ways - separated from each other (by thinning at the appropriate time) and not thinned. Well, the separated carrots look great - nice and straight. The bunched up carrots grow in sometimes odd shapes, depending on what they run into, maybe, or where the good minerals are! The carrots all taste the same, though.
Anyway, here's a carrot I liked that you might enjoy. I shot it in a reclining position:
Glad it had only two legs
Very cute, Ricardo. :)
We've grown some pretty bizarre "reject" carrots here on the farm. I took Laire's suggestion of selling "reject bunches" for a discounted price, and customers were into them! I guess for them it's still quite the novelty, since such multi-limbed specimens are rarely available commercially.
I personally find two- or more-legged carrots to be a little more annoying to cook with because you have to break apart the appendages and wash off the extra dirt that has collected between the crevices. Maybe that's one of the reasons single-stalked carrots have prevailed...