Night Harvesting Deserves a Quiet Night

One problem that comes up when you and your spouse both work full time, and volunteer quite a lot, and have a huge garden is that some day you may get home late from work and realize that if you don't harvest the first round of beets and plant the next one this week you won't have time for the next round.  You then might realize that you both have to work this weekend.  So you grab a flash light and get started. 

To start with, I should confess that I planted the carrots too close together, so now we have baby carrots.

Really we should have given them more space, and we did for the next round.

We did manage to pull all the beets and sugar beets, so as soon as I can find the time I will freeze them and make sugar!  We got so many that they totally fill our sink. 

We also needed to find something to do with all the greens.  While they are good in a salad I am not a fan of either drying the or freezing them so most of them were given to the chickens. 

This may not look like a lot, but the greens were piled high for a nice surprise for the chickens.  Hopefully I will be able to turn the beets into sugar soon.