Our carrot crop has been sad looking this year. Grampa Tom can usually grow some pretty carrots in his fancy raised beds, but this year they are either skinny, leggy, buggy or split. We've been selling the fatter skinny ones, but no one will buy stuff that looks like this! It's just near impossible to keep the beds wet enough in this hot dry weather.
Not all is lost though. We generally eat what we can't sell, and what we won't eat, the chickens love! I've been cutting off the buggy spots and the splits to can them.
I cut them into small chunks. Fill pint jars with them and then cover them with water and add 1/2 tsp of sea salt. Pop them into the pressure canner and cook at 10 lbs for 25 minutes. These will taste great with roasts or in soups or just as they are next winter :)
This morning, I planted some more in my mound garden for a fall crop. I'm hoping I can mulch them really well so we can have fresh carrots all winter long. We'll see!
God Bless You All!
~Grama Sue
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