my tamatos and carots...

   

 tamatos - Absolutely nothing tastes better than a warm, home grown, vine-ripened tomato on fresh-baked bread! Easily raised in the home garden, or even on the patio, tomatoes produce heavy crops in small areas. With dozens of varieties of tomatoes available to the home gardener, your choice will depend on what you want from your plants, as well as on which varieties grow best in your region. In localities with a relatively early fall frost and short growing season, pick tomatoes developed for early maturation. If you love tomatoes, but find them acidic, there are now low-acid varieties available just for you.As well, there are special tomatoes suitable  for slicing, canning and freezing; small tomatoes for patio and container planting, late maturing tomatoes, and yet others which make good ketchups and sauces.

   carrots- Carrots are a taproot, a type of root which grows downwards into the soil and swells. Carrots come in many sizes and shapes: round, cylindrical, fat, very small, long or thin. Native to Afghanistan, carrots were known to both the Greeks and Romans. In fact, the Greeks called the carrot "Philtron" and used it as a love medicine--making men more ardent and women more yielding. The Roman emperor Caligula, believing these stories, forced the whole Roman Senate to eat carrots so he could see them "in rut like wild beasts."

India, China, and Japan had established carrots as a food crop by the 13th century. In Europe,

however, they were not well known until well into the Middle Ages. At that time, doctors prescribed them for everything from sexual maladies to snakebite--which some would argue, are biblically connected. In Holland, the original red, purple, black, yellow, and white varietals were hybridized to today's bright orange, with its potent dose of beta carotene.

From thence, carrots moved to England, during Elizabethan times. Some Elizabethans ate the roots as food; others used their feathery stalks to decorate their hair, their hats, their dresses, and their coats.

          Our carrots and tamatos are ver healthy and they are still growing... they are right

     next to each  other and they are both my favoret vachtables... i wanted to plant them when   we were choseing what we wanted to plant, the first time. i think we did a great job with them and they seam very health. we planted tamatos first and then carrots, and so far we had probems with tamatos bcouse it had pests, we had to clean them that was our job. this happend to other plants but they seam health now and we clean them so everything is good, but for carots we did not have any problem, they are still groing and i cants weit to eat them....