Very very basic question about carrots

[Hyacinth]

 :-[  I'm growing Autumn King for the 1st time...I'd planned to leave them in the ground until I needed them. They are MONSTROUSLY huge now :o tho still sweet & tender.....question is, please..

Will they continue growing until the weather turns cold enough to stop them?

:-\

[Hyacinth]

[supersprout]

Yes, very slowly :D
PS envy envy!

[triffid]

Will you please take some pix when you finally lift them, so we can all drool over admire them?

:P

[Hyacinth]

NOPE! No pix = no camera. Tell you what tho......you pay the postage & I'll send you one ::)  ;D

[saddad]

I put some in late (end of August under fleece) as none had germinated in spring and now the fleece is about 1' above the rows... might get a decent crop yet!
;D

[tim]

If they're monstrous now, they could well get coarse & hairy if left in?

I would do belt & braces & store some.

[OliveOil]

SS - didnt nick say to get carrots out now ASAP due to frost damage???

You can store them in a bucket of sand. Cut the leaves off and lay them in a tray of damp sand so not touching each other Store them in a dark cool place. Thats what i would do if i had carrots but had no luck this year :(

[supersprout]

yes he did - I kept very quiet :-[ ;)
I put about half in a clamp, and the rest seem happy under their straw cosy. They are biennials after all! ::) ;D

[powerspade]

I still have the best part of 6 rows of Autumn King carrots in the ground. I'm storing half in boxes of sand and the rest I`ll leave in the ground. The ones in left in the ground I shall be drawing up the soil around the carrots just like earthing up spuds to give them a little protection until I use them.

[tim]

Frost? I'm not too sure. They don't seem to suffer?

Sand? I prefer peat - the reclaimed sort.

Cool, dark? How could anything not be cool & dark in a mound of sand/peat??

[Hyacinth]

I'm going along with powerspade's earthing up method.

But I'm trying to eat loads as well. Question - how much carrot & coriander soup does it take to turn one's skin orange? :o

;D

[grawrc]

LOL @Lish. I haven't dared to look at my cossetted carrots yet. Lost them all last year to the fly so have them in enviromesh this year.

I'll be delighted if I have the problem of deciding how to store them! ;)

[tim]

Better than a fake tan, Lishka??

[MrsKP]

my first crops are all in my tummy  :'(

the ones i sowed in pots much later on are still at the teensy tinsy stage.  i doubt if they'll ever get big enough to eat.   :'(

and YOU said YOU weren't having much luck with carrots this year.  YOU fibbed.

:P

[Hyacinth]

  YOU fibbed.

:P

Did NOT :o My Early Nantes were rubbish, true,  but did I not mention that I'd got Chantenays & Autumn Kings in as well  ??? And if I'm saying that my Autumn Kings are huge, just wait til I tell you about my Chantenays (if that's how you spell them?) ;D

[MrsKP]

perhaps you "forgot" to mention that  (or pehaps you didn't)  :P

My deck man wanted to know what the steptoe bath was for.  I told him, he sighed and walked away.

;D

[paulinems]

my carrots have only just started growing will they be any good now or should i pull them up,they are only tiny yet

[Hyacinth]

my carrots have only just started growing will they be any good now or should i pull them up,they are only tiny yet

Saddad on the thread below's suggesting fleecing them? Or do you have any cloches? Worth a go.

[grawrc]

Yo!!!! They're big b****rs!!!!!! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)