Pulled my 1st carrots today and was really chuffed.
I have a pretty heavy soil but spent ages rotavating it earlier this year which seems to have done the trick.
And I think the last month of constant rain up here has drowned all the carrot flies too. ;D
(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii247/vegdan/DSC01220.jpg)
Wow they look good enough to eat!! I love raw carrots but not cooked. Mine are about 1" long :'(
I'm so jealous!! Well done! Not a carrot in site on my lottie :'(
Look fine. Which variety? (My OH is enjoying my first year success at carrots too. Hasn't even posted me a picture of how they turned out, so I will never know.)
Wow!! vegmandan they are brilliant !! Well done!!
Duke
I'm impressed, they look wonderful. ;D I can't grow carrots. :(
G x
They look great! We have done much better with carrots this year - we have actually got some without carrot fly damage LOL
Excellent result.
I got a few just recently which were great, next year "Autumn King" all the way! ;)
They look fantastic - I pulled up some of mine yesterday as well and were straight with no carrot fly but still had knobbles on them - yours look show quality. My OH who dislikes carrots wolfed them down as they were so sweet. In fact he ate them so quickly I didn't have time to take a photo!
They're great.
I'm jealous though as mine were looking big and fantastic and now they've all died due to carrot fly.
:'(
Great stuff. Apart from rotivating, did you do anything else - e.g. add some sand?
beautiful carrots the only way i can grow them is in tubs
Really nice, have had a go at something slightly differant this year and put in some purple haze, im hoping they shape up the same as that, though im not betting they will :D
They look perfect vegmandan :o. I have trouble growing them at all here, but I see that two rows have at least germinated so fingers crossed. ;D
Big well done and round of applause from me ;D ;D
Are they a nantes variety?
Quote from: hopalong on July 21, 2008, 22:03:20
Great stuff. Apart from rotivating, did you do anything else - e.g. add some sand?
I did rotavate a load of coarse limestone grit in this year to try to help with drainage but I think it's the fact that I resisted the temptation to water them at all when it was really dry in April/May,and they seem to have sent a really deep tap root down in search of moisture.
I watered when it was dry last year and they were all shallow rooted and forked,and I don't have a particularly stoney soil.
So for me from now on it's never water carrots no matter how dry it is. ;)
As for Carrot fly I seem to be lucky with this.
My plot is in an exceptionally exposed field and is really windy so I've surround it with small meshed wind break (2-3mm ish) at a considerable expense but It seems to be small enough to keep the little sods out,but I always sow carrots between garlic or onions which also apparently helps to keep 'em away.