When you have to push the day's harvest home in the wheelbarrow, you know the homestead is exceeding expectations.

Now, what to do with all that bounty?  With the exception of the extra cucumbers (which even Bradley and the chickens have stopped accepting), the rest of the bounty is bound for harvest catch-all soup.

Of course, we can't make a big pot of the soup right now because other important ingredients aren't quite ready.  For example, we'll be slaughtering our second round of broilers next week, who will provide the stock.  Our green beans are ready, but the sweet corn isn't quite fleshed out, and the roma tomatoes are just now starting to change color.

While we're waiting for the tomatoes to ripen up, cabbages and carrots would keep well sitting in a cool root cellar.  Too bad I never put it on the list to dig the refrigerator root cellar back out of the dirt.... 

Instead, I'll be cramming storage vegetables into every nook and cranny of our small fridge.  Half the carrots filled up the crisper drawer, which is all I usually devote to storage vegetables, and I cleaned off the bottom shelf for the cabbages.  Now, what about those other 15 pounds of roots?