No Halloween here

Just a post about carrots. I pulled some carrots yesterday. We grew them in a small 'tire pyramid' by the house. Just two tires with some store bought dirt and dirt from the old chicken coop area.
We had mixed results and I was hoping that perhaps those of you who have carrot knowledge may be able to answer a question.

The first carrots I pulled looked like this.

Now I did some research, and it seems that carrots like these are caused by some sort of nematode? Does this mean that the towers should be dismantled and the dirt used elsewhere? Can the dirt be safely used for flowers? I am thinking of filling it with marigolds or pansy's or both. I think marigolds are supposed to be good for getting rid of things like nematodes? All these carrots went into the compost, or should I pull them out and burn them?

The rest of the carrots I pulled, from the other side of the same area, looked like this.

Not sure why the one looked more like a parsnip, but as you can see, they are all more normal. We cleaned these up and had them for dinner. They were quite yummy!

Anyway, that is all I have today. IF you do Halloween, please be safe. Hope you all have a wonderful, blessed day. I am thinking of friends who have lost loved family members recently. You have my condolences.
*hugs* ♥

We are back.

The weather was crazy when we left last Friday! It rained so hard we couldn't hardly see the front of the hood on the truck. And we went through several storms like that. It mostly rained in some form every day we were gone. Louisiana had a tornado watch until that Saturday, but we didn't see any damage from that, so we were blessed.

Brought our youngest son back with us as there aren't many jobs in NC, and certainly none where we used to live.
Didn't take a lot of pictures there, but have taken a few here.

This is some garlic that I did not pull up before I realized that garlic needs to grow a full year before harvest. At least, that is what I read somewhere.

We've redone the grape supports this year, for the space that hubby gave them. We'll see if we did good or need to rethink entirely.

Redid the potato tower, too. Now it's basically two raised beds like this, with peas.

And yes, we still have the redneck planters, too. Trying celery again, though it gets much too hot here, so I'm not sure why. That is a garlic that we kept too long.
The other planter, the lilies are growing, and I planted some marigolds.
The bin in lower right that I did not take a picture of, for reasons that escape me right now; I planted a couple of tomato seeds in, some purple beans and some carrot seeds. We'll see how it goes.

Hope you are all doing well. I know the weather is still crazy!
Have a great Friday!