Comments on: Summer Garden Story: The Harvest Continues

By: Resa

Resa — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:14:00 +0000

Actually that is how most carrots look. Supermarkets only accept single-stick style ones which usually means that the nobbly natural kind go to waste.

By: Sayward

Sayward — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:10:38 +0000

@ Julie – Hmm, wonder if it works the same way for the adult affliction . . . not that I would be curious about that or anything. =)

@ Mellifluous – Wow, your garden is awesome! I love the idea of rooftop living/gardening/bbq-ing, etc. That eggplant flower is amazing!

@ Joy – HA! That actually made me laugh out loud. I’ve been guilty of the same thing, whoops! Now I just reach under the foliage, dig down a bit into the ground, and try to get a feel for the girth of the veggie. I judge whether it’s big enough to pull up by how big around it feels – it’s been working so far!

I would love a fig tree. And pear brandy! Sounds amazing. =)

By: Joy

Joy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:58:17 +0000

I WISH I could grow mutant carrots! I’m just not so good with the root vegetables- for some reason they don’t recover well from being pulled up and shoved back into the ground…

I’m in my first summer at a rental with the following trees: fig, pear, plum. My intentions: fig mead, pear brandy, slivovice.

By: Mellifluous

Mellifluous — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:41:45 +0000

I agree – carrots are tough to get growing nice and straight – but when they taste a million times better than those straight ones in the grocery store, who cares if they are mutant?! Check out my Boston roof-deck garden at http://guilty-as-charged.blogspot.com – updates to my growing plants posting soon!

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:43:17 +0000

Prune preserves mixed with a little bit of barley cereal is the absolute best remedy (and preventative measure) for baby constipation.

By: Sayward

Sayward — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:28:18 +0000

@ Belinda – I love my mutants too! I’ll keep my soil grainy just so I can get them again next year. =)

By: Belinda

Belinda — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:13:24 +0000

I LOVE mutant carrots! Apparently it happens because the soil in which they grow isn’t fine enough – it really needs to be a sand/soil mix and with a sand-like fineness, which can be difficult to achieve. Still, they taste the same!

You’re doing better than me anyway: I have a 5 inch cucumber, a few peas, a few more beans and that’s it. The parsnips on the allotment are looking good though, and I daren’t pull up the carrots (although I expect they are mutants too!).