Root Vegetable Update

Mixture of Radishes

 For our second installment of updates, I would like to tell you about our root vegetables, which are almost all late-summer veggies. The exception is a combination of easter egg, cherry belle, and mixed radishes which we planted in two rows at two different times. We harvested many beautiful radishes from the first row, mostly of the easter egg and cherry belle varieties, but the majority of our mixed radish pack went to seed before they developed their roots. I think the varieties in the mixed pack, like white icicle, were too large to develop in our short cold season so we might stick with smaller varieties like french breakfast, cherry belle, and easter egg for the fall and next year.

Our second row of radishes are on their way, so I hope the heat doesn't negatively affect them or make them go to seed, before they can develop roots and be harvested.

Chioggia Beets

 Our Chioggia Beets are looking beautiful with their robust leaves, however, we realized the space we planted them in could take a lot more plantings, so we purchased two packs of Detroit Red Beets to fill in some gaps. None of them are up yet, but soon they should be. The amount of beets we'll have this year will be more than last year, which should allow us to try a lot of recipes like soup, salads, or pickles.

Four Carrot Pots

Our four pots of carrots are doing wonderfully with exceptionally healthy looking tops. One pot is Nantes, one is a mixed pack, and the other two are Little Finger carrots. Just two weeks or so ago, Megan and I planted two more pots of carrots on top of that, one of which is Little Finger carrots, the other Nantes. We planted quite a few more carrots this year than last year too, so we hope to get a few meals out of them.

Jennifer