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To: greeneyes

Kind of funny why I started with carrots. A soccer mom used to bring full sized carrots to games as snacks. Daughter was used to eating baby carrots and wondered where those “big ones” came from, so I told her they grow in the garden.

She insisted I plant some the next year. I promised her I would, but I’d show her how to tell when they were ready to pull. After the carrots had top, I showed her how to run a finger around the top to see if they were ready. Imagine her surprise when the first one was about 10 inches long.


78 posted on 03/01/2013 5:11:14 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Dims are stupid, period. End of conversation.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

That’s a smile for sure. We are taking our granddaughter to a local organic farm this summer just so that she can see the animals on the farm instead of the supermarket.


80 posted on 03/01/2013 5:20:29 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Arrowhead1952; greeneyes

Hey, Arrowhead1952! I have been wondering myself about carrots being ready... what am I looking for when I run the fingers around the top? What is the sign of readiness? Is it circumference size? Or something else?

Thanks


114 posted on 03/02/2013 7:42:40 PM PST by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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