Saturday 15 November 2014

A pleasant surprise

Last weekend I reported that I thought my carrot harvest was more-or-less finished. Today I set out to remove any last remaining debris and start preparing the bed for its next crop. There was little above-ground evidence of any carrots - just one or two leaves - but when I started digging I found LOADS of carrots!


Several of the carrots had signs of slug attack on their shoulders or just below ground level, so I suspect that the slugs had started by chomping all the foliage and then carried on chomping below the surface. It was definitely the right time to put this to a stop and collect everything remaining.


Most of the carrots were from the section of the bed in which I had sown "Early Nantes". I had previously thought this variety a good one: now I think it's fantastic. I will certainly grow this one again.


Once I had roughly washed the carrots, I weighed them, and they came in at 946g. Not bad for just the leftovers, eh?


Some of them are a respectable size, and will be very welcome in the kitchen.


Others are very tiny and will be used as "cocktail carrots", eaten raw as a pre-dinner nibble.






I like surprises like that!

10 comments:

  1. That is a very nice surprise. I so love carrots.

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  2. A great bonus. We like Early Nantes too

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  3. Early Nantes are a good size if you want to cook them whole. Definitely a nice surprise.

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  4. Great recolt, carrots, i have just eating a lot of its this day,

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  5. Fabulous. What a lovely surprise when you thought they'd all but finished.

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  6. It was indeed a good surprise. A lovely find for this time of year.

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  7. That is a nice surprise! Free food!

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  8. That is just fantastic! It's so funny that you found all those carrots with very few leaves - I've had the opposite problem a couple of times - tons of leaves, but the carrots were still tiny. I grew the regular Scarlet Nantes this year & it was definitely my favourite of the three varieties I tried.

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  9. What a great bonus, I will most definitely give the Nantes a try. thanks for sharing your gardening info.

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