The carrots are one of the slowest things to grow in our garden. I’ve been filling in the gaps of the ones that didn’t germinate with new seed, and all gaps are slowly being covered. I’m working on removing the onions soon, so i can get some new carrots in before the end of July. We’ve put purple carrots in this year, due to the benefits of purple veg on health, but also as a bit of an experiment! The first baby ones wil be harvested and taken to a BBQ we are going to on Sunday.
The Perpetual Spinach went in to fill the space, but also to provide us with a supply of leaves that won’t bolt (unlike standard spinach) like the chard and rocket have. It will hopefully keep growing if we keep harvesting, long into the colder months, and maybe even into January. We planted it closer than we should have incase plants failed, which they have…more than we expected actually.
Tags: growing carrots, perpetual spinach
July 19th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I’ve just put up a post about pictures from other people’s blogs which have especially stuck in my memory.
Amongst these, I’ve mentioned yours of raised beds.
I can’t work out how to make links to photos on blogs in situ so I’m wondering if you would mind if I copied one onto my blog - together with a link to yours.
I’d be grateful if you would let me know.
Lucy
LOOSE AND LEAFY
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 am
No worries, would be pleased to help!
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Hello
A copy of your photo of your raised beds is now on LOOSE AND LEAFY (Day 12).
There is a link to be clicked beside it which will bring people to this blog - and the date so they can find it in its original post.
I hope that’s ok.
Thank you very much for letting me use the photo. I hope you will accept a small nosegay of blue flowers which is an ‘Esther Montgomery Memorial ‘Prize’ for a Particularly Memorable Picture’. (It can be copied from the LOOSE AND LEAFY blog.)
Yours sincerely
Lucy Corrander
July 24th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Hooray for carrots and spinach! I’m looking forward to a month or so when I’ll be able to plant spinach again. I grew some purple carrots this year, and they’re gorgeous, but they taste blander than the two orange varieties I have. I hope you enjoy yours, though!
July 26th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Hiya, yeah i did enjoy the carrots we’ve had so far…fed some to friends who looked at the dubiously until i explained that all carrots were once purple!!!