Saturday we harvested the carrots.
Harvesting carrots is one of the fun gardening jobs.
The kids love to pull carrots.
Storing a carrot is very simple. They are a “root cellar” vegetable, meaning they will stay good and fresh as long as they are stored correctly. I keep mine in plastic bags in an old refrigerator in my garage, I keep the temperature in the refrigerator at about 50 degrees, and they will stay fresh that way for months. You can also keep them in a cold basement room or a root cellar, if you are lucky enough to have a root cellar. When storing fresh carrots cut off the green top, leaving a half to a quarter inch of the top on. If you don’t cut the tops the carrot will wither, same thing will happen if you cut into the root.
If you don’t have a place to store carrots at that temperature, you can blanch and freeze them, or can them (using a pressure canner).
We harvested 50 pounds of carrots, along with the 23 pounds already harvested gives us a total of 73 pounds of carrots this season. They were grown in 16 square feet of garden on my little quarter acre of land.
Yay for suburban farming!
Wow, those are awesome! That is an amazing crop of carrots. I planted carrots this year because you had mentioned them and your previous crop looked so good. Mine are about 2 inches long right now according to two we pulled and ate. Do you think it's a location thing (I'm in the DC area) or just that my carrots are stubby? Do you have experience with parsnips? I'm afraid to pick them yet.
I once joined a yahoo group for homesteading stuff. Until someone started trashing on people who live in town and try to do homesteady/farmy stuff on a not-for-real farm. Needless to say, I completely disagree with that perspective! 🙂
What a fabulous harvest. Well done!
Kate
I love all the carrots! They look so pretty.
Love Erika