Hi Celeste,
I garden in southern California, which is still strange to an Ohio native! This year I am trying a winter garden, and either the slugs are eating my carrots as fast as they poke up, or they were bad seeds, or I covered them too deep. I like the plywood method mentioned here. I'll have to try that today or tomorrow.
Glad to have you with us. We share as many brands of humor and topics as we grow veggies in our gardens.
Scrubjay

Welcome. I'm out here in Colorado just east of the Rockies in high, arid plains. I'm still pulling carrots, too, but they are just about used up for the year. Didn't plant enough, I guess. If there were more, I'd cover them with hay or straw or something and keep on pulling.

I plant once in the spring and take it from there. I like great big carrots in the fall and they don't seem to get "woody." I've worked this garden for 8 summers now and the soil is finally getting really nice. Took some work since I started with a horse corral, and I'm still fighting with the bindweed and thistle.

My garden is fenced, but I decided to leave the gate open this year since I was tired of fooling with it. (Not a very functional gate.) I don't think the rabbits have bothered much of anything and there are quite a few around.

The other kind of gardening I love is in my cold frames; two are currently filling up with spinach and cold-tolerant lettuce, the other one I will plant in January. Few things are quite as good or as good for you as a salad that was picked just a couple of hours ago--in the dead of winter.