#root veg

[bmure]

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Goblin Week

[ahedderick]

Roasted Roots

It is roasted roots vegetable day, here (by my daughter's request).

One each large beet and onion, smallish sweet potatoes (purple and orange), carrots (red and orange) and potatoes (red and white). I chopped them into bite-sized pieces and they're in a 400 degree oven covered in olive oil, salt, and thyme. Perfect food for a very sudden switch to fall weather.

I also got one very large sweet potato (too nice to chop into pieces!) and a massive beet that I'm going to chop into small pieces for a Hero treat. Possibly also Nutmeg. I'm going to guess that horse slobber after a beet treat will be ungodly hideous. Good nutrients for the old boy, though!

[rumade]

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Cooking home grown parsnips has been an exercise in knife skills and pareidolia

[countryhedgewitch]

Potato harvest 🥔🥔🥔

[ahedderick]

Roots

I've been putting off digging the carrots (because the beans and the tomatoes are visible, so they've been monopolizing my attention). This morning's pleasantly cool temps, however, motivated me to get my butt out in the garden and grab a shovel. Also a hoe, because in the last month the garden has gone from almost-weed-free to knee-deep-in-weeds. How - does that happen? so quickly?

Anyhow. I hoed two raised beds, got fatigued depressingly quickly, then grabbed the shovel. I dug potatoes, just enough for a meal or two, then three sections of carrots. We plant in raised beds about 8x4 feet, I had two beds of carrots and two single rows of them that I shoved in beside other veg. The carrot harvest was DISAPPOINTING. The "red Samuri" seed hardly produced anything. About a handful, I am not kidding, for the whole bed, 32 linear feet of carrots. Also, one of them decided to make the leap from biennial to annual, and put up a flower. Carrot flowers, you may already be aware, look exactly like queen anne's lace. The orange carrots did better, but certainly not record-breaking.

At that point, I realized my son was overdue for getting up for school. He generally gets up with his alarm, but . . I ran back inside and rousted him. Back in the garden I finished up with carrots, put the shovel away, thought about the date for a minute (it's mid-September - shouldn't the sweet potatoes be ready?) and grabbed the shovel again.

Digging sweet potatoes is a chore in that the vines are so ridiculously abundant and it can be hard to remember exactly where I planted the roots. I eventually found the source of the vines and started digging a good 15 inches (37 cm?) away so I didn't chop any of them in half. A few minutes of digging revealed two large and 2-3 small ones, dark purple. I planted purple and orange this year.

I sprayed the whole basketful vigorously with the hose, then set them on the porch to drain. Maybe I should dig the beets, too? Hmm. These garden hods are worth their weight in gold; I love them. I wish I could dig clams some day!

I don't know if the carrot issue was with the variety or the company that sold them - anybody have any recs for reliable red or purple carrots?

Well. Many joyful and tasty roots. Happy fall, y'all!

[drmonkeysetroscans]

Sounds like fun.

[drmonkeysetroscans]

Soapy dope.

[neilevansrocks]

A hearty tray bake for fall

A hearty tray bake for fall

If like me you’re in love with fall you’ll totally get the desire to shut away the world on the darkening evenings and have something really hearty to warm your body & soul. Now I just happen to believe that there are few things which do that better than a huge plate of winter vegetables, and after I found these beautiful heritage carrots at Borough Market I was inspired to find something to do…

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