Grateful

This is our carrot crop this year.  The whole crop.  Every last carrot.  

Let me just say, that I am very, very thankful that my family doesn't actually depend on me for food.  I'm thankful I have a supermarket within walking distance.  I'm thankful I have enough money to buy enough food at the supermarket.  Very thankful.

Because if I actually had to feed my family from what I actually grew during the extremely short growing season, I would be in major trouble.  We would all have starved long ago.

To my credit, the growing season this year was especially short, and especially bad for all gardeners.  Also, I only planted one large pot of carrots.  In addition, they WERE supposed to be baby carrots, which grow better in containers.  

These carrots look like premature babies, though.  They are truly bite sized.  We called them carrot bites, and split them up for lunch.  They were extremely delicate and sweet and wonderfully delicious.  There just weren't very many of them.