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Pickled Carrots
By Eliot, on May 14th, 2013
I picked a peck of carrots to pickle….Somehow, that just doesn’t have the same ring to it as the old tongue twister.
This weekend it was time to clean out the hoop house and uncover it. Most everything had started to bolt. My sage was blooming and I have never seen the culinary variety do that. Some of the lettuces had bolted up to three feet tall and the weeds were coming right along with them.
I had planted and replanted carrot row after carrot row and it was now harvest time.
Garden bounty.
A big pile of Cosmic Purple carrots.
Huge carrots!
No joke, I picked at least twenty pounds of carrots. I made the most delicious (best ever)…
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