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sally_in_wales
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 3:31 pm Post subject: HUGE carrots!
We just harvested our entire crop of carrots ...

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 3:35 pm Post subject:
carrot tops are edible aren't they? We're thinking of cooking these whole greens and all, seems silly trimming them for cooking

tahir

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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 3:35 pm Post subject:
Yes they are

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 3:37 pm Post subject:
splendid, we should get about three mouthfulls each in that case

judith

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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 3:46 pm Post subject:
They aren't terribly nice though.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 3:49 pm Post subject:

judith wrote:

They aren't terribly nice though.

hmm, maybe I should just take scissors to the greens and give them a haircut about an inch from the micro-carrots

Duckhead

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Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 3:55 pm Post subject:
I would give them a trim, cook them to your liking, present them on a huge plate with half a dozen fresh peas and laugh your socks off that you didn't give £35 for them in an over-rated restaurant in a nice part of London.

gil
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 3:59 pm Post subject:
They look like the size of carrot I grow, Sally. But you have more of them.

tahir

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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 4:03 pm Post subject:

judith wrote:

They aren't terribly nice though.

She didn't ask if they were nice!

They're good with other greens, give a slightly coriandery/fennelly twang (I think you all know where I'm headed with this)

sean
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 4:04 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

judith wrote:

They aren't terribly nice though.

She didn't ask if they were nice!

They're good with other greens, give a slightly coriandery/fennelly twang (I think you all know where I'm headed with this)

Go on, go on, go on...you know you want to say it...

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 4:16 pm Post subject:
SAAAAAG! Wonderful sag...

tahir

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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 4:21 pm Post subject:

toggle

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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 4:57 pm Post subject:
that looks like the exact reason I never will bother with carrots again

Bebo

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Location: East Sussex

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 5:03 pm Post subject:
Grow them in a barrel filled with spent growbag compost. You'll never bother trying to grow them in the ground again.

matt_hooks

Joined: 01 Aug 2010
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Location: Lambourn(ish) Berkshire

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 10 5:06 pm Post subject:
A load of lengths of old gutter downpipe, or similar, filled with loosely packed compost, and a nice warm spot. Well, that's what we've been told to try anyway. We had a load of tiny ones like that, and slightly larger, when we had to pull our crop early, and very tasty they were roasted with good olive oil and a load of balsamic and crushed pepper.

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