You may remember back in August, when I went though a very painful thinning process with my carrots. I found it morally repugnant to be aborting such verdant, promising little starts before they even had a chance to grow and grace my salad bowl. Sigh. The memory still haunts me.
Well, after that trauma, I determined that I would only thin one of my two pots of carrots. I just couldn't bring myself to do it to the second pot. I had SEEN THE LIGHT; I was an enlightened person. No longer would I casually inflict death and destruction unnecessarily (and by necessary, I meant before my vegetables were ready to be chopped up and served for dinner).
I. Was. Passionate. Aaaannnnd . . . that passion lasted all of about 5 minutes. Because almost immediately, I forgot that I had even planted carrots.
Until yesterday. I just so happened to be walking on the side of my house (which I rarely do now that gardening season is over), and I noticed two big pots CHOCK FULL of tall, waving green plants. Oh yeah! My carrots!
I harvested one from each pot.
Hmmmm . . . . So THAT'S why you're supposed to thin them. Crud. Lesson learned.
3 comments:
Ah ha!! I'd forgotten about that post, but I'm glad you updated us. So, does this mean if we "weed out" a few of our kids, we're bound to have at least ONE good one? ha ha haha! Kidding!!
Now what are you gonna DO with those yummy lookin' carrots?
Thanks for reminding me that there are still things growing in my neglected garden. There's probably some potatoes in there, too, but I'm too disgusted with their lack of production to even care.
I learned this lesson in exactly the same way....hence the "Myrons tiny harvest" post!
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