Nika's Culinaria - Eat With Your Eyes

(Thumbelina carrots © 2006 Nika Boyce)

Ages ago we planted some thumbelina carrots (Daucus carota sativus) and a variety of eggplants in small containers on the deck. I thought this would be lots of fun for my oldest, Q, to grow, pick, and eat.


(Sprouting thumbelina carrots © 2006 Nika Boyce)


(Thumbelina carrot tops © 2006 Nika Boyce)

At one point we had these wild mushrooms growing around the carrots


(Mushrooms from the planter of the thumbelina carrots © 2006 Nika Boyce)

Yesterday Q decided it was time to harvest the little guys and has been enjoying their sweet flavor and cute look.


(Thumbelina carrots © 2006 Nika Boyce)


(Thumbelinas and one white eggplant © 2006 Nika Boyce)