Ah, winter in Idaho... All my gardening books say you can over winter carrots in the ground, but from personal experience I know this does not work here. The problem is a combination of cold and mice. We are overrun with mice in winter. I don't know why the welfare cats hang out in the warm barn and don't do their job of digging through freezing snow at -2 temp. to catch the mice...
So I went out to harvest the carrots before our first big snow.
This is what a carrot should look like. And a few of mine did.
But this is what most of them looked like - compliments of the mice. Look at my beautiful harvest! Gnawed away by mice! I threw them to the chickens. It always makes me feel better not to call these disasters a complete waste. Thank goodness for the chickens.
5 comments:
I am so intrigued by what you do on the farm. I have never seen a carrot in the dirt before. Weird to you I bet. We have similar problems with gophers, moles and the deer around here. Whenever we try to grow anything, flowers or vegetables they get most of it.
I am glad you enjoyed the Christmas Blog. It was fun to do. Merry Christmas to all of you!
Bummer! But it is quite humorous. Here's what I did that worked: Get a big wooden ammo box, and layer the carrots with damp peat moss. Then store the box (lid tightly shut) in the garage. Sawdust from a cabinet shop would also work. Also, find yourself about six more cats. Next year...
Janene, I loved the pictures and especially the comments. It was so fun reading about the Thanksgiving doings, and your life on the farm. Love, Grandma
Thank goodness for the chics!!! I love your blog Mrs. Wadsworth!!!!
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