Last Harvest of the Season

Yesterday, I finally harvested my carrots.

They'll be great in a stew or salad

This isn't the longest I have left them in the ground,

one year I didn't pick them until February!

And that's only because it was snowing and the

ground was beginning to freeze.

I plant them in a section of the garden that I made

the soil very loamy- so they will grow

somewhat straight.

Here is a close-up of the bunch.

(Pun intended).

I got all different sizes:

Some are skinny and some are fat.

Some are tall and some are short.

Just like some people I know.

Here they are all cleaned up.

The discoloring at the top of a few carrots is

from being exposed to the sun and not covered

up with soil.

I cut the tops of some of the sunflowers and

put them on the ground for the birds to finish eating.

That red seed is from the magnolia tree.

Here is a picture of what is left of the tomatoes.

The frost has pretty-much done-in the vines.

We could probably salvage some of the tomatoes

to ripen indoors.

This isn't a harvest picture, but here is one of the

batches of boiled peanuts we have made in the

crock pot. I call them 'wet nuts' and they are real good.

Just takes raw peanuts, water and salt. We cook them

in the crock pot overnight and into the next day.

The cat really likes them!

For some people, they are an acquired taste.