This morning it was about 34 degrees (F) and sunny. A nice change from yesterday’s completely rainy gloom, but cold!

Drob remarked to me that it was probably time to pull up our remaining carrots.  I just did that! They are so funny looking, because they were grown in a pot, and because I had pulled them up before to see if they were big enough to harvest. They weren’t. As an experiment, I planted them back into their pots once again to see if more carrot root could grow after disturbing the plant in that way. The other thing I did which messed with the carrots was to periodically snip off some of the greens. This was something goofy I did just to please my carrot-greens-loving guinea pigs.

All told, these last two carrots did pretty well considering all their “challenges”. I hope that next year I’ll do more container gardening. I think it would be awesome to grow a whole lot more, right in my own front yard. I won’t be returning to the same community garden where I’ve gardened the last three summers, so I am trying to think what to do instead.

Container gardening means being able to really focus on each plants needs. If you have a compost-hungry crop, you can give it a bigger share of the rich stuff to its own container, rather than just fertilizing all the ground. If you find a spot is not sunny enough for a particular crop, you can move the container to a more sunny location.  Or, if frost threatens, you could even move a potted crop indoors over night. The possibilities are exciting!

Right now is the time of gardening dreams and schemes. I don’t plan to grow anything during the winter, except for the swiss chard that I have out on my deck in pots. My pots are too small, though, and the chard is small accordingly. I will dream and scheme the winter long, looking for funky– and larger!– containers to plant in come spring.

Also pictured above: my non-glamorous hair that apparently should be dyed. What do you think? Come on, I can take it, tell me the truth! I’m striving for more glamour, you know,  cuz that is really “me”.