Putting the Garden to bed for the Winter

[jjannie]

What I have found from past tries at carrots, is that if it's warm enough, the bugs will get to them and chew them up around the tops but the bottoms are still good. How is that new snow thrower working out for you two this Winter?

Snow blower working well. I was making a video of it in operation, but it just didn't work out. First, we run our walk behind snowblower to do the perimeter edges plus it'll get into tighter areas the tractor can, which is super nice - it even throws the slushy wet snow. Plowing from inside the cab you get quite warm, never need gloves and then if the snow blow back happens having the wiper and windshield its WAY nicer than getting face full. Also, it handles those deeper amounts of snow way better than walk behind does. 

Hopefully they won't have too many bugs - guess we'll see. We didn't get to it yesterday, so maybe this afternoon. We've been in heavy fog clouds all morning even after sunup.

Hopefully who won't have too many bugs? Not sure what that last paragraph means

Still haven't made it out there to check yet, our project and some appointments just keep interfering with the plan - maybe today. if we're lucky.

LOL, now I know what you mean by too many bugs, in the carrots. I was having a hard time figuring that out.

Finally made it out today as Jeff didn't need me in the shop. No bugs at all just brown tops for the most part. some of the under-developed carrots were pretty soft though. Still, I got about 1/2 a 5gal bucket of them. We don't eat very many at a time anyway.