08/05/2026
I have a bit of work to do in my root vegetable bed…Meet my carrots. 🥕😂
I harvested my root vegetable bed today (along with a whole lot of other garden tasks) and these little guys had some thoughts of their own, growing in a different direction. Stunted. Multi-legged. Not exactly what I had in mind when I planted them in the spring.
And here's the thing — I don't even care. They're going straight into a coleslaw with a beautiful head of cabbage (which isn't perfect either 🤣). It'll be delicious, chopped up means I only need the flavor not the perfect look.
But the bed itself is telling me something. Root vegetables need deep, loose, well-amended soil to grow straight and strong, and chest my root vegetable raised bed needs done serious soil work. So before I plant another round of carrots, radishes, and turnips for the fall cool season, I'll be getting in there and doing the deeper work the soil is asking for.
It kind of hot me as a great metaphor: Sometimes the best laid plans of one season don't produce what we expected. The conditions weren't quite right. Something was going on beneath the surface I couldn't fully see. The growth came out sideways, a little stunted, not quite the shape I had in mind.
And in life that's not failure. That's data. The season showed me what the soil needs, now I amend, now I go deeper. And the next round of crops (or whatever you're working at!) gets better because of what this one revealed.
So here's to my multi-legged carrots, continuing to teach me lessons along the way, just like life does ☺️✨
