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What happened to my carrot?

Shoxt3rShoxt3r Posts: 196
in Fruit & veg
Hi all,

So it's finally come to harvest time for my first set of carrots but when I went to pull one of them it was bright yellow, had roots coming from all over and there was grey dust of some sort in the soil.

There was no indication it was ready to be picked but I thought as the others were ready (tops showing) I thought I may as well pull this one too.

Any thoughts?

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Carrots were originally that sort of colour before (the Dutch, I think) bred the modern orange varieties we now grow, so it's likely a genetic reversion.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I think you may have sown them in fertilised ground, you have a lot of green and lots of roots along the carrot. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    "What happened to my carrot?"

    It sounds like you have a children's book in the making....
  • Shoxt3rShoxt3r Posts: 196
    Lyn said:
    I think you may have sown them in fertilised ground, you have a lot of green and lots of roots along the carrot. 
    I did wonder that, I haven't fed them in a while and the others are fine.
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