Angie Kinghorn

When Mama said, “Eat your veggies,” she didn’t mean these.

Every summer, my husband plants a garden.  Not just a plant or two, but a decent sized patch of land.  He amends the soil until it’s black (no mean feat when you live in the land of red clay) and full of things like mushroom compost and manure.  He forms neat rows of soil for the tomatoes, okra, and peppers, and hills for the cucumbers and our one disastrous experience with pumpkins.
This year the kids are three, and we thought they would enjoy helping with the garden.  He told them they could plant something, and being the little “Max and Ruby” addicts they are, they demanded carrots.  So the hubster bought a packet of carrot seeds.  
Here’s the thing, though.  Neither of us knows a damn thing about how to grow carrots.  Not sure where we went wrong, but here’s the first horror that have come out of our garden:

When the hubster came inside carrying the first one by its long, skinny root, I screamed and thought it was a mouse.  The kids played with it for several days, making it squeak and run across the floor.  Several carrots later, our son picks the most deformed versions  and chases his sister around the living room with them.
Needless to say, we have not attempted to eat the mutant carrots.  Of course the kids wanted to know why, and the hubster had the perfect answer.
“Why can’t we eat these carrots, Daddy?”
“Because they may be carrying the genetic code of Satan.”

People, you just can’t argue with that.  Even if you’re three.

Comments

  4. @Cheryl, so glad to make you laugh! Believe it or not, everything else that comes out of the garden looks normal. But these? Definitely of the devil.

    @KLZ I'll tell the hubster. He'll be so appreciative. Alien carrots!

    @Kristy, this is normal? And you ATE something that looked like this? More power to you, girl. I couldn't do it!

  9. @Blair, freaky, right? That's gotta be the explanation. Thanks for stopping by. Your post today (well, the responses as much as the post) had me on the floor laughing. I'm so glad you found a Shannon, btw.