Moon phase: Week 3 (waning)
I haven't blogged about my allotment for a while, mainly because there hasn't been much happening - I've been weeding and cutting the grass, and picking the snails and caterpillar eggs off the brassicas, but all is pretty quiet on the harvesting front. However yesterday I couldn't resist digging up these beauties, since it was the right time of the month.
They are "Chantenay", from the Organic Catalogue, and reputed to be very tasty, so I'm looking forward to trying them. Sadly they represent the whole of my carrot crop for the allotment - most seem to have been mown down by slugs before they got going (my crop of Early Nantes in the garden was much better, though the individual carrots were a lot smaller). The biggest of these is 16cm which, given their girth, makes for a pretty hefty carrot!