home grown carrots for dinner

caz07

first time growing carrots,
just thought i would show you all my carrots, just pulled them up will have them for dinner yummmmm:j

cpweeks

I couldn't get the link to work - hope they tasted good!

mary-op

Lucky you............we tried last year and they came out about as big as my thumbnail - OH pulled one up the other day and it was way too small.
We have to grow our veg in pots but that shouldn't make any difference I've been told. Maybe we were a bit late planting them out. OH's still hopeful

jabba4

mary-op wrote: »

Lucky you............we tried last year and they came out about as big as my thumbnail - OH pulled one up the other day and it was way too small.
We have to grow our veg in pots but that shouldn't make any difference I've been told. Maybe we were a bit late planting them out. OH's still hopeful

It does take a long time to get decent sized carrots. 20+ weeks isn't unusual. I grow most of mine in pots (about enough for 1 meal per pot), and normally harvest them when they're finger sized. That way all I have to do is scrub them and cook them. No chopping involved.

caz07

cpweeks wrote: »

I couldn't get the link to work - hope they tasted good!

caz07

they tasted great thx and they were grown in a container btw

buxtonrabbitgreen

We also had my first lot of carrots for dinner sunday. They tasted lovely and they were quite a good size too.

Rebel

I've also been growing in containers, eated 2 boxes full so far (about 20inches by 14) I guess about 10 portions per container and now replanted to try and get a second crop, they taste so much better than shop bought carrots.

The trouble is all I have been really successful with is Carrots and tomatoes (a few beans but not many and a few sugar snap peas as well), no more than abut 4 portions of beans in total and 2 portions of sugar snaps, still first proper year I've tried growing veg so can't complain too much.

ALIBOBSY

We had our first carrots yesterday mmmmmm.
Made a sausage casarole (sp?) apart from a tin of toms and the sausages themselves all was home grown. Added carrots, broad beans,peas, garlic,herbs,brocolli and onion. Twas delish served with home grown new spuds mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

ali x

misspenny

was going to pull a few yesterday but had a bucket load of brocoli, peas and pototoes already (they where yum), hope oh rememebrs to have a look tonight, our carrots where a total failure last year

angelavdavis

Our carrots, for the second year running, are curly! We were really careful this year not to overplant and don't have really stoney soil, but still they seem to have gone on walkabout and grow in every direction except down! Really puzzling!?!