Nathan: I really appreciate the Honest Scrap Award. I’m not ignoring it, but I’ve never followed up these meme awards, because I can never figure out which blogs to pick! So I love getting them, but I don’t pass them on, so I don’t feel right displaying them on the site… What a mess! :)

Jamie: We don’t deliberately pull carrots before they’re mature, we just plant often through the season, and dig them up as we go. Each planting lasts about 4 weeks, sometimes running out just as the next one is ready, other times overlapping, depending on growing conditions. Slow-growing years like this, the new beds haven’t matured when we start digging them, so the first ones may be smaller and they get bigger from week to week. It’s all about the (crazy) weather! For our customers, I think fresh eating carrots are what they mostly want, so this works out. Ideally, we’d also have full-size storage carrots grown separately for fall harvest. Some years we’ve done this, but not this year.