Failure: omission of occurrence or performance.
Why are the carrot bottoms curving upwards? Using basic science (i know crazy stuff), i theorize that due to a lack of proper deep ground soaking the carrots had to turn up to get water, because the jackass that runs the operation let the soil dry out and then only watered sufficiently so that the top 3-4 inches of soil got moist. True they were planted in raised beds, so are more suspect to losing water, but i am aware of these facts... i should do better and not fail.
And in figure 2 we see a hooked carrot, a proper carrot and 2 short fat stubby carrots... it would be interesting to see why the short fat stubby ones went that direction, but i suspect it might have to do with the timing of the drought, perhaps a clay pocket, or maybe light. Soak your soil good so the carrots reach down for the water... a sandier soil works well!
It should be noted that this was my second crop of carrots for the year so they were very young when the hot dry summer came.
A quick note on failure... don't be a wuss and recoil at the negative connotations associated with the word. Failure is great, one of the finest learning tools in the book, but it is only a learning tool if you face it and look into it's jaws to see where the beast ran wild. Shutting off in an emotional cocoon upon the mention of the word will only ensure you will meet the same fate again down the road, and perhaps even worse, you may assign a different reason, a wrong reason taking you further off the path of righteousness and spiritual happiness. I could be a fool and say that the seeds were no good and i got them at this nursery that i thought was a bit suspect so I'm not going to get seeds from that place again cause look what happened. You can see how not properly dealing with failure can steer you way off course... so don't do it... everybody fails... it makes the successes all the more sweeter... gardening is not about looking good... it's about eating well, and sometimes you have to drink a cup of failure to help the meal go down.
Figure 3: Is that a baby corn and a stunted white fly breeding ground of a Kale plant? Hint, there was a large tomato plant in the cage there... those plants got no light and hence produced nothing but weak plants serving as pest cultivation sites. Bottom line... it probably would have been better to have no plants than those plants. I did hope the corn would shoot up high over the tomato but obviously it didn't make it... the ones a few feet over were about 10 feet tall... just didn't get that early critical sun to give it the power to escape the shadow.
Yep it's time to put the garden into a new phase... you have to get stuff out so you can get your garlic in. You can leave some if you are really getting food (lots of Kale), but the tomatoes are not as fine as they were back in august... blight and mold are establishing colonies in your soil... time to cut the loses. You need to put that garden to sleep, let it rest and don't compost your blight laden or powdery mildew abundant green matter into your garden... that's why God created city green bins... i believe they should have the heat to kill the spores, or at least apply the NIMBY phenomenon (not in my backyard). Over the past few years i have been observing various gardens and it seems that the ones that fail to remove diseased plants over the winter have a tough time the next year. It is actually more fun to dig up your garden in the fall... you find surprises and get to properly assess what went down.
People are often come out gangbusters in the spring digging up and bringing in the new, and sometimes they feel defeated or overburdened in the fall and miss this great opportunity. It can be hard to decommision plants when it looks like they might have a bit left... that's why we focus on the garlic and the leeks. The human brain works better starting things than finishing things... a little Man Robertson tip. It's like getting a new guitar... you are tricking yourself into writing a new song because you need to justify the decision.
Know your game, play it well, don't go backwards and don't be sorry. Embrace failure as a learning exercise... be excited about failure, and if somebody tries to stop you from examining failure, avoid that person. If failure continues to be negative, work to make it positive or seek professional help... a ball of hate is not positive failure.
It should be noted that this was my second crop of carrots for the year so they were very young when the hot dry summer came.
A quick note on failure... don't be a wuss and recoil at the negative connotations associated with the word. Failure is great, one of the finest learning tools in the book, but it is only a learning tool if you face it and look into it's jaws to see where the beast ran wild. Shutting off in an emotional cocoon upon the mention of the word will only ensure you will meet the same fate again down the road, and perhaps even worse, you may assign a different reason, a wrong reason taking you further off the path of righteousness and spiritual happiness. I could be a fool and say that the seeds were no good and i got them at this nursery that i thought was a bit suspect so I'm not going to get seeds from that place again cause look what happened. You can see how not properly dealing with failure can steer you way off course... so don't do it... everybody fails... it makes the successes all the more sweeter... gardening is not about looking good... it's about eating well, and sometimes you have to drink a cup of failure to help the meal go down.
Yep it's time to put the garden into a new phase... you have to get stuff out so you can get your garlic in. You can leave some if you are really getting food (lots of Kale), but the tomatoes are not as fine as they were back in august... blight and mold are establishing colonies in your soil... time to cut the loses. You need to put that garden to sleep, let it rest and don't compost your blight laden or powdery mildew abundant green matter into your garden... that's why God created city green bins... i believe they should have the heat to kill the spores, or at least apply the NIMBY phenomenon (not in my backyard). Over the past few years i have been observing various gardens and it seems that the ones that fail to remove diseased plants over the winter have a tough time the next year. It is actually more fun to dig up your garden in the fall... you find surprises and get to properly assess what went down.
People are often come out gangbusters in the spring digging up and bringing in the new, and sometimes they feel defeated or overburdened in the fall and miss this great opportunity. It can be hard to decommision plants when it looks like they might have a bit left... that's why we focus on the garlic and the leeks. The human brain works better starting things than finishing things... a little Man Robertson tip. It's like getting a new guitar... you are tricking yourself into writing a new song because you need to justify the decision.
Know your game, play it well, don't go backwards and don't be sorry. Embrace failure as a learning exercise... be excited about failure, and if somebody tries to stop you from examining failure, avoid that person. If failure continues to be negative, work to make it positive or seek professional help... a ball of hate is not positive failure.
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