Lifting carrots at last!

Snow and frost have now gone so we've managed to get at the main carrot crop instead of relying on baby carrots from the polytunnel.

This one weighs 964 gm and should last us a while!

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That's a whopper Dave. Congratulations.

 

oh my goodness! a fine specimen dave

loopy

 

Bloomin 'eck Dave...what are you growing those in.

C'mon...spill the beans!

Steve...

 

Thats got to be alien... I dug some up this morning and the biggest Im ashamed to say was about ... "this big."
They were nice rosted with the parsnip and onion.

Well done to Dave... shame on Robert

robert

 

Carrot is "Autumn King". For my big carrots for winter use I sow in late April in holes dibbled with an old fork handle. I fill the holes with a mixture of riddled garden soil and compost from the heap. I then sow three or four seeds per hole and when germinated reduce to one seedling. No special feeding this year other than a couple of waterings with comfrey fertiliser. The carrot and parsnip rows were covered with fleece to start with and then with enviromesh when the top growth got too big for the fleece.

This year I found that many of the other carrots sown later in the season forked quite badly due to the dry spell we had.

 

That's a lot of carrot Dave. Well done.
I grow most of my own veg but carrots always get done by the fly so I only grow baby carrots in pots. I'm surrounded by carrot fields so I can buy local carrots very cheaply.
I've a lot of stuff still frozen in the ground so I'm eating the little "cabbages" from the tops of the sprouts. Very nice they are.

 

Ha ha, just bought some autumn king seeds. Doubt I'll grow them half as good as that.