Late Carrots

[bluebell]

For the first time this year I sowed a late carrot – Autumn King, on the recommendation of a fellow allotment holder. I have to say that I am very impressed. Sown in early October they have produced good ‘salad’ carrots with a fine flavour with the first picking for Christmas dinner. The tops remain looking healthy even though we have had some quite hard frost and because of the time of year the do not suffer from root fly and to date I have not had a major problem with slugs and snails.

[Don Foley]

Hi Bluebell,
Were these sown direct outdoors?
What size roots did you get?
What part of the UK are you growing in?
Sorry for so many questions.
Don.

[bluebell]

Hi Don
They are direct sown, outdoors – I did think I had left it a bit too late as packet said up to September. They are in Bedfordshire on top of a windy hill and sown in to a half filled 1 meter builders bag, so may have a little bit of shelter but also tend to get more slugs in them.
They are left sown quite close as I wanted to use them mainly raw in salads and have produced tapering roots up to about 5 inches long – well the usable bit, so perfect for what I wanted.

I may have been very lucky with autumn weather etc, but if you have a bit of space next autumn it may be worth a go.

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