Well, I just knew something would go wrong. There we were pondering at the weekend what to have for tea and we decide upon some sweet potato and carrot mash which sounded like a good idea. It’s ideal as it just so happened we had been growing a number of carrots which were ready for harvesting.

So off I go, really excited at the prospect of pulling up our first carrots. As I grabbed the foliage and started to pull, what unravelled before my eyes was not …… expected.
Instead we have quite possibly grown the ugliest carrots in the world.

I am not entirely sure why this has happened, I thought growing carrots was going to be easy, well growing pretty carrots that is! Some of them have tunnels down the sides of the vegetable looking as though they have been eaten, and others look like they have grown extra legs.

The carrots we were growing were the Parmex and Chantenay varieties, and it’s the Parmex who have been eaten the most and the Chantenay who have deformed the most.

Looking forward to harvesting the rest of the Chantenay and Autumn Kings now!