We never had luck growing carrots in our garden when I was a kid. I only planted these because the kids wanted them. I didn’t think they’d grow. I didn’t think they’d taste good if they did grow.
I was wrong on both counts.
They grew.
They taste good!
106 carrots (ok, some of them are tiny and were composted because they were too small to deal with, but that only takes the count down to maybe 100).
I’m not sure if this is usual, or if Carrots officially need “curing,” but we noticed that these didn’t taste so great right after we picked them. But after the were cleaned and sat in the fridge overnight, they taste pretty close to store-bought! Emily even stole 3 handfuls of the ones I was chopping to freeze and ate them. That’s a sure sign that they taste good!
The fattest one was almost 2 inches wide.
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But store-bought carrots taste awful! In my experience they’re sort of dry, with a metallic aftertaste.
I get mine in my regular organic box straight from the farm. It’s best to store them with the dirt on as they keep better. They taste sweet and juicy. So good.
YAY for homegrown food. Especially homegrown food that tastes goods and the kids will eat!!!
Holy carrots! That’s an amazing harvest. I love homegrown carrots, they taste so much better than store bought.
We had some of your carrots last night. Yum!
That’s a LOT of carrots!!!!
carrots actually taste sweeter if you can wait until after the first freeze. mulch them, and then dig them up after the freeze. they’ve built up sugar to deal with the restart of growth in the spring. carrots are biennial, w hich means they produce seeds the second year.
which is hy the refrigeration made them taste sweeter. the starch in them converted to sugar. that’s why you don’t refrigerate potatoes, because the starch turns to sugar.
i watch alot of gardening by the yard,lol.
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