problems storing carrots

[hedgewizard]

Too mild really, Jack - they'd just rot. You can get away with that with parsnips most years, but I'm told carrots don't like it. Anyone in the UK tried that?

[Rough Jack]

Gidday

O.K. then mate, why do you have to grow your stuff to harvest it alkl in one go?

Even here I plant progressively and have fresh carrots out the ground all year round, unless I eat more than I have grown.

I think where you go wrong is to try to have a harvest time. The only things I can't grow through the winter are things like cauliflower and cabbage which freeze but Kale and broccolli seem to stand the frosts so if I plant enough we have them all year round too.

Try to think of going self Sufficientish and plan on fresh veges of your own all the year through.

[Boots]

Chop, Par Boil/Blanche and Freeze for Cooking, and pickle with capsicum, onion, mustard seed or whatever to throw through salads...

[hedgewizard]

Jack, we're pretty much self-sufficient for veg, and we do successional cropping with early carrots throughout the year (I still have a handful of those left too), as you can see on my blog. With our little polytunnel we can have fresh early carrots from early April to mid-November.

Come the winter we like to have carrots to eat too, though, so we grow a fair amount of maincrop carrots for storage to see us through until the end of the "hungry gap". That's why there has to be a harvest!

[Boots]

Hey Hedgie!!!!

[hedgewizard]

*waves hands frantically* Ssshhh!

[Boots]

*Frog jumps onto Boots' keyboard*


Ribbit. Please stop waving your hands Hedgie. Change me back. Change me back this ribbit minute!

[Millymollymandy]

*waves hands frantically* Ssshhh!

Too late - Chili Monster has already made a posting saying happy birthday to all the Xmas birthday boys and girls!

Look in General under title called something like "Oops bit late".

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[9ball]

Probably a bit late now, but I tried out an old Mrs Beeton recipe for carrot jam the other day, it came out really well. http://www.mrsbeeton.com/31-chapter31.htm

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[hedgewizard]

what did it taste like? (resigns self for inevitable reply)

Just polished off a bucketload of delisk--eeus carrot and ginger soup. Yumsy.

[9ball]

INEVITABLE REPLY AS FOLLOWS:

It tastes a fair bit like apricot preserve actually, mind you that might just be my brain seeing something orange and jammy and tricking my tastebuds. My girlfriend likes it as well though, so I'll definately be making some more.

Tom

[hedgewizard]

'sfunny, we made marrow and ginger jam this year with exactly the same results. Perhaps apricot jam is a fundamental particle or something.

[Millymollymandy]

How did your marrow turn apricot jam colour? My cuc and ginger jam is green, and tastes of ginger!

[hedgewizard]

It started off pale green, but the longer you cook it for the more brown it turns. If you like it soft set, as I do, you get the apricot jam particles. What can we call them - apricons? Apricinos?

[Millymollymandy]

I don't know what they are as I have never made apricot jam!