I haven’t posted a garden update in almost a year and half. Due to my health issues, I’ve had to put a lot of things on the back burner, including my forays into gardening. My little container gardens are still on the back deck, and I figured that once I was feeling better I would pull out the weeds and try again. Jai has been keeping an eye on the garden, since the last batch of plants had apparently dropped some seeds that were starting to grow on their own. Yesterday afternoon, he walks in the house with this:
A carrot! Not only that, but a large, delicious carrot! And there are a few more growing in the containers as well. How my abandoned carrots from 2010 managed to re-seed themselves and grow through all kinds of crazy weather with no help is amazing. No wonder root vegetables are such a popular and plentiful crop to grow.
(The slice you see in the carrot is from where Jai was chopping it to eat, when I said: “Wait! I haven’t taken a picture of it yet!” Ah, life with a blogger. ;))
I find it hilarious that when I was tending my garden and trying to grow produce, I ended up with the smallest carrots ever. But after I completely abandon it, I suddenly end up with the nicest carrot I’ve ever grown! At this rate, if I continue to ignore my garden, I should end up with a bumper crop. 😉
Have you gotten any garden surprises lately?
i love the title, LOL. and isn’t that always the way? mint goes crazy at my house every year 🙂
That is very cool! i have never tried to grow carrots, I wonder if they would do good around here. Our onions came back this year from last year, we planted them around the garden to help with bugs.
Home grown really do taste better.
so cool!!
How cool is that? My gardening surprise this year was when I was needing some green onions and didn’t want to go to the store. I walked out to my container garden on my patio and had three! Yay for me!
That is pretty cool especialyl since it grew and you did nothing to it. My kids eat a lot of carrots so maybe this is something we need to plant in our garden this year. Especially since they don’t require a lot of work.
Wow! How nice!:)
one time, I had a cantelope grow in a garden where they had never been planted before! HOW, you ask? Apparently, my compost had seeds from a store bought cantelope! Made a yummy treat!
Nice! I have some surprise lettuce we’ve been enjoying.
I’m trying to learn how to garden. I’m attempting flowers first and if they stay living, I might move onto things I can eat, lol.
That is so cool! We have a huge garden as always, but it is SO much fun to find something in the fall that we thought was done growing! 🙂
That is awesome! I have planted carrots over and over again and have yet to get more than 5, and definitely not any THAT size!! What a nice surprise!
I’ve never gardened before but I grew up with my dad always having a garden. This gives me hope that even though I may not have a lot of time to “baby” a garden I could still have good food!!
That is too cool! I had a garden last year with a few different vegetables and was hoping they would come back to life this year.
That’s awesome! We’ve found some bonus cilantro and green onions popping up around our yard too!
That is so awesome! I am hoping to get more into the whole gardening thing!
That is fabulous! I have never been successful at growing carrots.
lol! My carrots did this to me too! I only got a few puny ones last year and a few days ago I went outside and found some nice big ones that grew over the winter 🙂 My bunny enjoyed one of them!