Beta-Carotene for Days and Days!

 Caution: corny jokes related to all things nursing and gardening ahead

Q: How do you kill a salad? A: You go for the carrot-id artery.

 Q: What does the Carrot priest say at church? A: "Lettuce Pray" 

Okay now that that is out of my system, lets get to the real root of the post (man the puns are just flowing).  Two weeks ago, I pulled up the rest of my carrots so I now have about 20 pounds of them sitting in my crisper.  While most will be sliced and diced for lunches, some will be cooked and frozen for winter time soups and stews and the remaining ones shall be pickled.  

Did you know the first carrots were actually purple?  Yup that's right, before the 17th Century carrots were purple; over the years, the Dutch began to cultivate the orange ones we most frequently see in the grocery store farmers market.  While the majority of mine were orange, the seeds I bought had a handful of purple and white carrots too.  I had bought some rocket red seeds, but due to heavy rains and no boards around my plot, I lost those seeds early on (every now and then I come across a random carrot when I am pulling weeds). 

Counting down the days until the fall veggies start to pop up!