The 2019 Carrot Harvest

We planted 3 rows of carrots this year.  One half of a row was some Seeds of Change Carrot Medley.  One half of the row was Danvers Orange and Berlicum Carrots.  Then we had one row of Cosmic Purple Carrots and one row of Atomic Red Carrots.  I like a lot of color on my plate!  Here are the rows of carrots with our 'clean-up crew' waiting for carrot greens to be tossed over the fence.

Here is a nice sampling of the Carrot medley.  There are orange carrots, yellow carrots, white carrots, red carrots and purple carrots.  All fat and healthy.

Some of the carrots have odd shapes, but many are just perfect.  I was a little concerned about them due to all the rain, but all of them did exceptional except for the orange carrots.  About half of them were rotten because I waited too long to pick them.

Here is a mixture of Cosmic Purple and Atomic Red Carrots just after being hosed down.  Their colors really pop after being sprayed off.  Once done, I take the topsoil-laden water and go pour it back in the garden.

Many of the carrots will be eaten raw, roasted in the oven, shredded in cole slaw and for making homemade egg rolls.  The rest will be blanched and frozen.  We decided to blanch some of the Seeds of Change "Rainbow" Carrots since they are so pretty.  Look at the different colors:

We chop them up so they'll blanch evenly.  We have one of those handy chopper things that does a nice job in chopping things up.  It's one of those "As Seen on TV" things that actually works.  Just glancing at the colors, you wouldn't think that these are carrots, but they are.

We blanch them, chill them and bag them up.

We'll put these in the freezer and eat on throughout the year.  In all, we put up 18 quart-sized freezer bags of carrots.