Late Season photos

Here are some of my beautiful rainbow carrots - see the one with a little one hugging it? Cute! they were delicious too!

 Next photo down is my shallot bed. I planted tons of small sets and they all pretty much failed. Don't know why. There are small ones in there that developed new sets along side, so I think I will rescue as many as I can and save for spring, or clean out the whole bed and mulch after setting them back into the dirt. Maybe that will work, anyone else have any ideas? Next photo is this year's potato crop from the compost pile. We are eating some of the white ones for dinner tonight - they are in the oven and smelling almost done, so I better get this posted so I can finish the rest of dinner to go along with them. The last photo is some beets - so pretty and delicious too. These are part of the crop that Sheila helped me with last spring when I was just after surgery on my hip and couldn't do the heavy stuff. Remember she cleaned out the bed boxes and we planted peas, onion sets and these beets. We have been eating on them for a couple months, both of us - there are still some left and we are going to make pickled beets out of them. Yummm!

here are some successes and failures in my garden this year - more potatoes from the compost pile, excellent beets, carrots, and failure of shallots.