From: "Keith B" <bartermn AT epix.net>
Yeah, I usually thin them good once and let them be. We had an
early freeze with heavy snow a few years back and didn't harvest
the carrots until January. I remember forking up big bunches of
frozen dirt packed with baby carrots, perfect for pickling.
I tried Elliot Coleman's Candy Carrots this year. I planted in
August, and was a little (a lot) lax about weeding and thinning. I
went out around Thanksgiving to dig up a few...and was amazed to find
huge carrots. They were 4 or 5 times the size of 'normal' carrots,
but were well formed and still very tender and tasty (a few have
started splitting since then). I've never been able to grow sucessful
carrots before, and now I've grown super mutant carrots!
The details: The seed was Napoli from Johnny's seed. The ground had
many inches of composted manure dug in 3 years before. I dug it very
deeply and removed all the rocks in the spring and put in 2 crops of
carrots...the first didn't do much...radishes and a few (very
few)bunches of normal enough carrots, then I cleaned out the bed,
used my broadfork to loosen it, and planted the second crop of
monster carrots...I fertilized a bit with an organic all-purpose
fertilizer and some kelp.
Lynn Wigglesworth Peasant Farmer Tioga County, PA
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