Daddy was working out of town for four days last week, so it was not a very family friendly week, and consequently, slim blogging about the farm.
This week Daddy is back at home and it’s a short week because Thanksgiving is almost upon us. But we are trying to take the time to get our last root crops out.
We started out with the parsnips. Daddy loosened the soil with the spading fork, Ellie pulled out the parsnips and set them in a pile next to Evie, and Evie cut the greens off with Daddy’s pocket knife.
And Seppi helped.
Evie has been asking for a pocket knife like her cousins have, but Mommy and Daddy keep telling her she has to demonstrate her ability to use one safely and keep track of it so that her younger siblings don’t get a hold of it.
She needed a few… pointers! here and there. (See what I did there?) But overall she did a great job.
After we pulled the parsnips and the main family carrot patch, we moved over to pull Evie and Ellie’s carrots. Ellie’s patch was first in line because Evie was still pulling parsnips. Boy did she get a bumper crop!
Dozens of huge nantes carrots with very few splits.
She could barely drag the box to get it over to Evie’s patch.
Which, as you can see, produced a remarkable crop as well.
Some of Evie’s carrots were even bigger (3 1/2″ max) but with a larger proprtion of split, rotten or vole-eaten carrots.
Oh well, the pigs think they are delicious.
Little big man, hard at work.
Well, here it is, Tuesday morning. We have a bit of a cold starting its rounds as of last night, but we are still going to try to get school done, and all the carrots and parsnips blanched, vacuum packed, and frozen today.
Evie and Ellie are determined to sell some of their crop, so if you are in the market for soup-ready frozen carrots, shoot us a text.
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