Jill and I got up early this morning and went to the garden to pick beans. Considering the beans were planted in "new ground"; I think we did well. The photo shows a portion of our harvest - there will be more to pick next week! The homemade sourdough bread (2nd. plate) will be enjoyed during our reflection time this evening when all the work around our placed if finished for the day.
We harvested 50 carrots all of which look like these. We found they grew just as big and straight when grown in 2" pipe as they did in the 3" pipe. The 2" will conserve soil and space (in our window sill during the winter months). We did find that the carrots were more difficult to remove from the 2" tubes because the growth compressed the soil around them, but just a few more shakes and they were released.
2 comments:
Looks like some good food Jim. We have got a mess of squash out of ours and still more to pick. The kids love carrots I may have to borrow your idea of growing them in pipe.
nice haul, I've never thought about using pipe to grow carrots in.
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