Root Cellaring Carrots in a Crawl Space
Here’s how to use your crawl space as a root cellar for storing carrots long term, how to store them and how long you can expect them to last.
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How and When To Harvest and Store Carrots
Here’s how to know when it’s the right time to harvest your carrots, how to harvest them properly, and what to do with them to keep them fresh longer. Plus, an experiment in cellaring them in a cool crawl space under the house.
Wild Carrots, Queen Anne’s Lace, And Deadly Hemlock
Learn to spot the difference between a wild edible and a dangerously poisonous weed. Then try these recipes for wild carrots and Queen Anne’s Lace Jelly!
Caramelized Roasted Vegetables
Almost everything in this recipe can be grown in your own backyard, making it a wonderfully cheap and delicious dish!
Guest Post: Lacto-Fermentation, Baby!
My girl Shaye from The Elliott Homestead shares how to lacto-ferment vegetables for long term storage. Very cool.
How To Dehydrate Carrots
Drying carrots isn’t as tricky as it may sound, and they take up MUCH less room than fresh or canned carrots! Here’s how it’s done…
My 2011 Carrot Harvest & Some Preserving Tips
Oh you guys, you GUYS! You have got to see this year’s carrot harvest!!!
My 2011 Garden
Here’s what the start of this year’s garden looks like. It’s just seedlings so far, but hopefully in a couple of months everything will be flourishing!
How To Can Glazed Carrots
Here’s a yummy alternative to just canning carrots in water!
How To Can Baby Carrots
A step-by-step tutorial on canning carrots. *PLUS, a TATTLER Reusable Canning Lids GIVEAWAY! Contest has now ended. Congratulations to Melissa at Kids and Canning Jars!
Growing & Harvesting Carrots In A Raised Bed
This year’s harvest was definitely better than last years! Here’s what I did differently, and some things I learned about growing carrots.
Weeding Carrots
These weeds are taking over my carrot bed! And there isn’t a thing I can do about it.
My Carrot Harvest (2009)
My first carrot harvest. Hey, it’s a start, right?!
We Have Carrots!! (First homegrown carrot, 2009)
Our first carrot from the garden. And quite unexpected too!
Planting Carrots and Lettuce
Here is how I planted my carrots and lettuce.
Steamed Carrots with Lemon-Dill Butter
“It’s so easy to make, and really kicks plain old carrots up a notch! And the best part is that the kids gobble them up!”