Garden Update: October 31, 2020

The weather has continued to cool down this season. I have my first harvest of carrots for the year in this video and they are much longer and narrow than I expected. This may be due to the harder clay soil in which the carrots were growing compared to previous years when I grew carrots.

At the time I monitored my amaranth and huauzontle plants in this video, the seeds were still firmly secured to the plant. Even after the frost on November 2, the seeds were still firmly secured to the plant. Although the seed heads had never shattered yet, I ended up harvesting the huauzontle and amaranth anyway on November 3. I will show this in a future video.

When I checked on one of my three sisters beds with cover crops planted, I noticed severe animal damage that could not possibly be squirrel damage. I am unfamiliar with what animals tear up soil in the manner shown in the video, but I'm suspicious that it might either be skunk damage or raccoon damage.

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