I struggle to grow good carrots on my clay soil but that is a cracker Bob, Like RubyLeaf mine are often twisted or forked but they do perfectly well for soups etc.
I know they have to keep reinventing the wheel, but sometimes you just think - oh shut up, don't you?
That is what I thought when they started going on about "Clean eating" I discovered it just means basic cooking from raw ingredients. I am only jealous because I didn't think of it & make a shed load of money from promoting what we have all done for that last 5 or 6 decades!
I only had purple carrots sown this year as the girls had got them for me. Disastrous. Weather didn't help, and they didn't taste of anything.
My reference book for veg growing suggests that most of the multi-coloured carrots are rather less tasty than a trowel. I felt that wasn't a strong recommendation for growing them.
Marvellous winter carrot there Bob. I had trouble getting carrots to germinate this year
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I grew Early Nantes and then AutumnKing and have had a better crop this year and still more to come.. A lot less fanging too and no they have never been manured in that raised bed..
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That is what I thought when they started going on about "Clean eating" I discovered it just means basic cooking from raw ingredients. I am only jealous because I didn't think of it & make a shed load of money from promoting what we have all done for that last 5 or 6 decades!
Marvellous winter carrot there Bob. I had trouble getting carrots to germinate this year
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”