Onions Harvested

I had some ambitious plans for tonight and managed to taken care of most of them.  On the way home from work I harvested all of the onions from the barnyard field.  I ended up with around a bushel, from 400 onions.   It was less than I was hoping for, but with the weather and the fact that they were planted late, it could have been worse.  They will be spread out in the blacksmith shop on Saturday to dry out before I clean them up. 

While I was there I also picked my first good purple peppers of the year.  They are very purple, a decent size and I am quite pleased with how they have turned out. As you can see some of them went to seed.
 

After that picked all the white carrots and cut the tops off of them for the horses.  There was also a generous chunk of carrot on most of those tops as well.  The white carrots although sticking out of the ground weren’t as big as I thought they might be.  For the entire box I ended up with about the same amount as I had for the Atomic Red carrots but with twice the space used.  Below is a picture of what they look like.  Weighted in at 2lb 4oz for the entire box.

 

They defiantly don’t have the sweetness that you get with orange carrots, but still taste like a carrot.  I’m not sure if I would buy seeds for these again or not.

 

Then proceeded to stop at the field to get rid of the carrot tops and dig some baby potatoes.  All the potatoes coming out of the field will end up being small and for some reason slightly bitter.  I think it’s because of the soil and lack of water but was still worth a shot to grow them this year.

After that went to get a best man for my wedding and then home to clean and freeze the carrots.