Orange Ginger

If you remember we started almost all of our plants inside in little mesh seed starters at Keturah’s Mom’s house. Some of those plants were heirloom carrots we got from a guy who has a gardening channel on YouTube. Well I was looking at them today and got to thinking that those carrots must be ready to come out, so I pulled one out. And to my surprise it was slightly misshapen, but it was orange like a carrot should be, so we decided to go ahead and eat it.


I would love to say that it was sweet and delicious just like a carrot from one’s own garden should be. But I’d be lying, it was tough and stringy and barely edible. It would seem that carrots should be plucked from the earth at a young age, and by no means should be left for months until they mature beyond their prime. Here is a picture of the rest of the carrots we pulled, we left some that were just babies in hopes that we can remember to pick them in a few weeks.

The carrot in the middle is Keturah’s favorite; she says it looks like a “flirty girl”. I’m just amused at all the weird shapes that came out due to the little flimsy mesh that was part of the seed starters. They remind us of ginger root, maybe a distance cousin or something.

General Update

It’s been a while since I last posted and I wanted to just let everyone know what was going in the days of our lives. As the world turns I have been teaching my pottery class down at the Firehouse Art Center for about four weeks now. I’m really enjoying it and I have great kids to work with, and they all are at different levels of experience so it makes each class more interesting (because they each have different goals they want to reach). We all had a really bad storm this past week that wreaked havoc on the city of Norman, it tore down a bunch of fences, took off some roofs, and shut down electricity in some areas for a couple of days. The worst we got was no electricity for about a day, and the hail did a number on our garden. Mainly it looked like a couple of guys took machine guns to it, every plant had broken stems, every leaf was ripped apart, and the few fruits we had looked like they had exploded. But it’s on the rebound. We also had to take out our corn; ants had taken up residence in the few tiny ears that were growing, so they went in to the compost pile. We have also let the garden in the very back get over run by grass (it’s the plot with the pumpkins, watermelons, and artichokes), it’s to the point now that I feel it would be easier to just get a tiller and till it up again instead of trying to do it by hand or with a hoe. Keturah has started to experiment with making cameos, she is trying to carve one out of an abalone shell we have had sitting around for a while. We are also planning a big weekend in the studio this coming weekend, so hopefully there will be pictures of the work we are doing now by early next week. I have also (with the help of our friend Andy (well he really did everything)) have a new computer and I’m slowly trying to get all the programs I usually use to edit photos back on it so I can post pictures again. We also have joined a bread exchange with a few friends of ours, and the first delicious loaf arrived last week. This coming month is our month to send out a (hopefully) delicious loaf. We are on the fence as to what kind of bread to make, we are looking at either a very nutty bread (maybe with some dried fruit as well) or a spicy bread. Another item on the docket is that we might in the near future have something interesting going on with a shop in Arkansas (more on that later, I need to get Keturah on the phone with some people to get more details). I guess that’s just about everything that needed to be updated, although I’m sure that I’m forgetting something.