I pulled the first carrots of the year
A fine bunch of nice fat carrots! Growing decent carrots has been a bane in my "farming" career. Always spindly with tiny roots. Not this time!
My name is Bluewing and I have done this! (finally)
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I'm aiming to grab some of mine out right before the ground freezes over.
I found carrots do the best in the loosest soil you can provide. Like potting soil. I did the best carrots this year too when I switched them to a mix of garden and potting soil in a 3 foot tall raised bed.
Yeah, that's what I did. I switched to raised boxes to save on my knees and back now that I'm old. I topped off my boxes with cheap potting soil this spring. They seemed very happy with my choice.
They’ll love sand, you just gotta make sure to enrich it.
I came here to say sand! Mix it 50/50 with super hot compost and let her rip. I am curious why they've harvested carrots so early though, even in Maine we have 2 months of growing left for tubers. Hell I over wintered some carrots last year and they are sweeter than you would believe!
2 months left? I am in west maybe 600 miles or so, and our growing season ends much sooner than that. Last year especially. And we are sheltered by the lakes that moderate the extremes.
Carrots grow right up to a hard frost, them go dormant. I suppose the Maine Coast is technically zone 6a, so take that as you will. I won't harvest my carrots until Thanksgiving
Those are a real achievement! I’d be quite proud of those myself.
Nice work, mate!
Thanks! The struggle has been real.
What led you to finally succeed?
I am impressed!
I only managed to get micro-carrots out of my north side garden that is in almost perpetual shadow and have given up by now...
That's been my world of carrots forever. I feel your pain. I had such a poor germination that I have carrots of every size left out there. I might get another half dozen if a hard killing frost holds off for another few weeks. But I don't hold out hope.
Hard frost won't harm them, imo you're harvesting a month early. Carrots can overwinter in the ground for super easy storage
I grew mine in sand soaked in compost juice
Huge fuckin carrots.
I have a weird sand pit in my yard now though.
You can over winter the little ones to give them a chance for next year.
Apply straw or mulch to protect them before the frost.
Ooo lovely! I've always heard carrots were difficult to grow at home, since they need specific soil as to make them look carroty and not evil. Maybe that was childhood silliness.
Those are some very fat normal-looking carrots, congrats!
Well done, mr. Bluewing!