Vegmonkey and the Mrs.

The carrots are growing now which is a positive although it is the third sowing. I did intend to have a whole bed of them this year but they really haven’t worked. My thinking is that slugs or snails have been beheading them very early on in their growth. Either way, we have been harvesting them slowly over the past few weeks. They will provide us with enough orangey (and purpley) goodness for at least the next couple of months but there won’t be any going into storage, I don’t think.

The parsnips however have gone great guns. I bought brand new seed which seems to have loved the soil in our raised beds. We took one out tonight to have with our roast dinner. It was small, but I’m looking forward to eating some much chunkier ones around November time when the cold and frost really increase the sweetness. These keep really well in the ground so it looks like the sand in the shed where we normally store our roots will be remaining relatively empty this year.