School is done and day one of summer found us puttering in the yard and digging in the garden (that was mostly Rashna). Our raised beds are hosting a variety of vegetables including tomatoes, lettuce, kale, peppers, and beans. We planted carrots last year but decided not to grow them again because, despite gaudy, healthy surface flora, their edible roots tended to be less than two inches long: not exactly a great use of our limited garden real estate. I'm sure there is some reason for this failure (we are extremely novice gardeners) but we figured we'd skip the carrots this year and plant more lettuce and kale since these actually provided us with salad for much of the summer and fall. But one carrot either somehow survived the winter or managed to successfully seed the earth with its offspring. The result is a single giant carrot in the center of our garden. Rashna checked the root: it is actually a carrot (a very diminutive one, naturally) and it is now "bolting." We have named this carrot "Captain Crunch" and will leave him in place to taunt the rabbits who will be able to see it from a great distance only to be thwarted by my new fence. Perhaps someday it will adorn a small corner of one of our salads. Long live Captain Crunch!
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