Street Pickles

I love pickled carrots.

I figure I could eat a jar a week.  That means I need 52 jars, plus enough to give away for Christmas.

So I started a carrot farm in the boulevard.  The boulevard is that useless piece of grass between your property and the curb.  Technically, it is the City's land, but I still have to mow it.  So I built a raised carrot bed in that space last year, and then a second one this year.  All I grow in there is carrots, easy peasy.

This weekend I harvested and pickled my "new" bed - the bed is about 12' long x 4' wide and I got 47lbs of carrots out of it.  Of course, it is new dirt, which really helps.  We'll see what I get out of it next year.

 Here's the pickling setup this weekend.  All of this is from the one bed. Note the milk crate behind me that still needs to be cut up.

 I got 39 jars (about 25L) of pickled carrots out of this bed.  I should be good till New Years...