Carrot Love!

We ended up leaving the carrots in the ground far too long, what with the snow and our inherent laziness! But we decided we'd better harvest them (and the parsnips) before we left for the Falklands at the end of January, incase they ended up rotting in the ground.

We got kilos and kilos of both!

Here are a pair of giant entwined carrots:

2010 Seeds

Just been to Ayletts for our 2010 seeds:

We have:-

Potatoes: Home Guard and Red Duke of York for earlies and Rooster and Pentland Dell for main crops (£3.15 for about 35 in total)
Leeks: Musselburgh Improved (£1.99)
Lettuce: Chartwell (£2.19)
Gherkin: Diamant F1 (£2.19)
Sweetcorn: Honey Bantam F1 (£2.89)
Courgette: One Ball F1 (£3.40)
Carrots: Supreme Chantenay Red Cored (£1.89)
Tomatoes: Sungold F1 (£2.99), Super Marmande (£1.89) and Harbinger (Free)
Sugarsnap Peas: Sugar Ann (£2.49)
Peppers: Golden Bell F1 (Free)
Purple Sprouting Broccoli: Extra Early Sprouting Rudolph (Free)

Almost the End...

Despite everything being under snow for a big chunk of January, we're still managing to pull some crops out.

Today, we finally dug up all the remaining carrots and parsnips, to be chopped up and kept in the freezer. We managed 3.5kg of (uncut) parsnip and 7.5kg of (uncut) carrot. Considering we only had a couple of short rows of each, that seems a pretty good yield!

Main crop potatoes harvested

And yielded 15 kilos!

OK, so another courgette over 700 grams this week.

I think I may have missed a couple too.

Today I harvested 2.2 kilos green toms and 500+ grams of orange/ red ones.

Used 1 kilo of greens for a chutney. Am intending to make a ketchup with rest.

All apart from 2 tiny toms were tigarellas. We had 2 tiny yellow ildis, the only ildis we got.