If it was a fish, this would have been the one that got away. Luckily, carrots don’t put up much of a struggle.
I was pulling weeds out of an overgrown garden bed on the weekend, and noticed some carrot leaves among the mess. Megan had just harvested the last of the carrots (about a kilo worth) from the bed before I got started, so I figured she missed one.
Needless to say, I got a bit of a surprise!
In case you can’t read the scales, it clocked in at 894 grams – almost as much as the small bucketfull Megan had spent half an hour picking!
Does anyone else have any monster vegetable stories?
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7 responses to “Huge Carrot!”
That’s insane!!! It must’ve been an effort to get it out of the ground.
O_O wowsers that’s huge!
That is a very impressive carrot – well done! You must have very well prepared garden beds.
Very impressed as all my carrots so far have been short and stumpy, however I can boast about a 499g tomato last summer 🙂 I’ll be trying to beat that this summer, tomatoes are in the garden already…..
http://eight-acres.blogspot.com/2011/03/tomatoes-from-seeds-to-soup.html
Thanks everyone! We ate the carrot this week, and it was perfect. I was sure it’d be woody and horrible, but it was sweet and tasty like a normal home-grown carrot. Yum!
That looks great! It’s our first year to grow carrots–hope they look and taste as good as yours.
@Chris: It was huge, and surprisingly edible! I’ve always found carrots tricky to get started, so pay them close attention for the first month or two and you should be fine.