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carrots 
Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 11:24:38 AM PDT
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Yesterday, I worked in a section of our garden that we call the Ladybug Patch. Here's a picture of what I did yesterday, which I'll describe below:
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Thu Mar 04, 2010 at 02:30:28 AM PST
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Today I was out in the garden when I noticed a new bug. It was a small fly that almost looked like a large ant with wings. About two seconds of internet research revealed that it was an carrot rust fly. Dammit.
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Sat Feb 13, 2010 at 18:53:13 PM PST
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Our carrots are a few weeks from harvest. They are now in an awkward stage where there are lots of greens but not much in the way of carrots. And, since the carrots are starting to form, I need to finally get serious about thinning them. I did one round of thinning today. Here are the results:
After some discussion on this blog, I looked around and found that (much to my compost pile's disappointment) carrot greens ARE edible and, in fact, there are carrot top recipes. Woo-hoo! So here's a photo diary of two different carrot top recipes.
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 16:59:12 PM PST
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Here's what happens when four total novices decide to grow carrots...
(The novices in question are me, my boyfriend, and his two young daughters. The youngest is age 3 and she decided to help us out while wearing a Cinderella ballgown and mismatched Disney princess slippers.)
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Sat Aug 02, 2008 at 12:36:15 PM PDT
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Look out... they've developed a genetically modified variety of "supercarrots" with extra calcium. I don't understand WHY we need to get our calcium from carrots when clearly there are plenty of other calcium-rich foods already. It gets even dumber when you read the details:
The researchers found that participants absorbed 41 percent more calcium from the genetically modified carrot than from the natural variety.
That amounts to a calcium content of between 27 and 29 milligrams per 100 grams (four ounces) of modified carrots.
The recommended dose of calcium is 1,000 milligrams per day. Researchers acknowledged that the carrots by themselves could never provide a person with enough calcium.
Wait a second. These new carrots are only giving us 2.9% of the calcium we need per four ounces? That is incredibly lame. Even if I was in favor of genetically modified foods, I'd think that was stupid.
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