We think we did pretty good considering its our first garden. The carrots were short and fat or short and skinny. I think we placed the rainbow carrots too close to each other. Some of them were twisted into one another. The orange carrots were on a tape. So, we couldn’t fool up there. We are also thinking about the length of both types….could this be because our bed isn’t deep enough? I’ll have to do some research. The next year we did add more soil and made it slightly deeper.

Its the first time I tried these rainbow carrots. They were good. If I can remember correctly they all had orange centres with their exterior being purple, yellow or white and some tasting sweeter than the orange carrots.

Our chives, green onion and green peas all did amazing. So easy to grow and so rewarding. We’ve actually been harvesting these 3 guys pretty much all summer and well into the fall. I remember several times coming home from work, going out to the garden immediately cutting/plucking a few to put with supper. I’m in love.

Potatoes….not bad, kind of small. They tasted delicious.

The turnip…rutabaga….I’m not sure. I think rutabaga. They didn’t do very well. Bugs got to them. Found these little tiny green worms…cabbage worms? Anyways, the little buggers had a feast!!! We managed to try out a couple…the taste wasn’t pleasant…well kind of bland.

And finally, the pumpkin. Notice its singular. We had 5 or 6 well growing pumpkins that we started from seed (I think we planted 12-15 seeds). Since we started them inside and those few grew so well, we had to transplant them into bigger pots before going outside. (Here in Newfoundland, our last frost is towards the end of June!!!) I think we read somewhere that you should only transplant any plant only once – from seedling to its final growing place. So, we just brought the plants outside and didn’t plant in the ground. This could be why we only ended up with one pumpkin plant and the actual pumpkin not being very big?? Ha! I was still proud! Amazed at their little curly vine thingys. They just grab ahold of whatever and plant themselves down. Similar feature with the pea. Nature is awesome.

We didn’t eat it. Just used it as a decoration on our front step 🙂 (sorry for poor picture quality).