It’s one thing to figure out how to start a vegetable garden from scratch if you have a big ole pile of cash in your wallet and no credit card bills sitting unopened on your table. You buy a pre-fabricated raised bed or three, purchase oversized bags of finely-tuned vegetable garden soil, grab your favorite vegetable seedlings from the garden store, spring for that gorgeous gardening tool set, and you’re good to go.
When I started my first vegetable garden I went a little tool-crazy. I bought every type of shovel, shear, and weeding gadget marketed to me at big box home and garden stores. If it had a catchy logo and was highlighted on an end cap aisle, there’s a good chance I bought it. At the end of that first year, I took stock of my shed and noticed that many of the tools I had bought were only used once.
Did you know that carrots were originally purple, yellow, and sometimes white? But in the 1700s the orange carrot was born, and it was preferred because it had higher amounts of beta carotene. Fascinating, right? Well, the Honey-Glazed Carrots recipe I’m going to share with you today is so flexible that you can make it with orange carrots, yellow carrots, or purple carrots. You can also mix it up and add parsnips!
