- Digger
- Northern UK
- 18 Jul 2005
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Righto old fruit, the green colour on the carrots root suggest that light has been able to gain access, the contorted root suggests that the carrots have been sown in sub standard soil, They need a good deep unhindered root run, I think you've got a very shallow bed for your carrots that is full of stones and other objects that carrots are running into, when a carrot hits a stone or object it has to bend or turn to grow around it, there is much talk of a freshly manured bed causing the roots to fork,as the carrot goes off in all directions looking for nutrients,
Anyway your carrots have simply not had the room to grow at all, and so they've twisted and turned in their fight to find a way down, the daylight has penetrated into the stuff that your carrots have grown in, and turned the root green in places, those carrots need to go in the bin my friend, try a deep light soil for carrots, failing this grow them in tubs and containers, I do grow some eating carrots myself but only in containers, stony rock hard subsoil isn't really the best thing for root crops. That said it's not a big deal ,maybe a little disappointing, but you can sow some more now in a container and move them indoors, for an Autumn crop of little uns.
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