Carrots

Over the last couple of months, we've pulled up and scoffed some of our carrots that we sowed at the beginning of October last year. They were still quite small at 6 months, but quite good at 7 months. They were Early Nantes and I didn't think they'd take that long to be a reasonable size.

Last week, the local fox raided our carrot tubs, probably looking for slugs. Carrots everywhere. Most of them were tiny, having only been sown on March and April. Many were too small to even be classed as baby carrots. Very disappointing as it will be several more months before we get any more carrots.

Anyway, there was no chance of replanting them all, so we decided we'd use them for carrot wine. We got a total of 1.5lbs (after topping) from 9 troughs, a mix of Early Nantes, Autumn King, Chantenay and Purple Haze. This wasn't enough for a gallon of wine so we had to buy more cheap carrots to have enough for a couple of gallons.

We still have a couple of troughs of carrots down in the veggie patch. One is Early Nantes, sown in mid-October last year, the other is Rainbow. Both troughs are less than half full - many seeds just didn't sprout in the poor weather we've had.

Back to more carrot sowings later.