Got carrots?

[ctom]

I plant two rows of carrots each spring just for the heck of it. Each year we bring in maybe 10 pounds of what is left after using lots of them fresh from the garden. Carole handed me a pail this morning and said to get them dug before we get the cold blast next week. I just handed here about 40 pounds of carrots, all washed but now she has to do the final prep for cold storage. I'm guessing we'll be freezing a bunch of these to soups. I can't remember ever having two rows of carrots yield this much. Oh well, I love these veggies. I'm just wondering what I did this year that they produced so well.

[Muskygary]

I've still got two four foot rows in a grow box, Maybe I'll pull them this afternoon. Love fresh carrots, potatoes and stew with gravy!

[ctom]

I tell ya Gary, a nice beef roast with potatoes from the garden and about 4 pounds of carrots in with it along with some sliced onion, a can of beef broth and slow roasted at 300 for about 3 hours is one primo meal. Those roast carrots are worth killing for. The left over carrots warmed up in a little butter are like candy.

Carrots are the last thing I bring in from the garden. The longer they are in the ground the more natural sugar they have in them and the flavor intensifies with cold. I do love my carrots.

[Fatman]

Tom

You left them alone and went fishing instead!!LOL  Friends here in Vermont told me that if I was going to grow them to used raised box's!  I only do tomatoes for the wife. 

[biglewers]

You should can them. 

[Jerry V]

When I was growing up we used to store whole carrots in buckets of sand, in the cellar, and they were good to go ALL Winter long...