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carrots = winter color!

2/2/2015

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Carrots at last!  Yes, the winter carrots were much later than usual this year...or you could think of them as being very early spring carrots?  We could not get our winter beets and carrots seeded until about the first of October last fall, a good two months later than ideal, and I had no idea if carrots planted that late would ever materialize.  (Didn't work out for the beets).  I know many of you have missed them these last few months, but on the other hand, now I know that I can plant carrots that late, and most importantly get a second crop of winter carrots coming in by the time we're usually running out.  February and March are the most difficult months of the year to keep a nice variety of fresh produce available; it's always good to have another crop to add to the late winter roster!

Some full-sized head lettuces available again; red leaf lettuce and butterhead (also known as bibb or boston lettuce) for now.  The hens are slowly starting to earn their keep again as the days get noticeably longer.  We are not quite yet at the "all you can eat" stage (that begins next month), but I think we are collecting enough eggs every day that we no longer need to limit eggs to one dozen per order.

In the meantime, the greenhouse is beginning to fill up with flats of spring starts, while we (somewhat impatiently) wait for warmer and drier weather to arrive.  Our local groundhog, Sir Walter Wally, should have a hard time finding his shadow on this wet and windy morning, so hopefully we'll see an early spring!
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