chilipepper's Journal

So fat! And that was dug up before it should have been?

Beautiful regular shape, Dave. And decent size too. Well done.

So jealous!

It would nearly make me want to grow veg!

That sounds great, you have such success with your veg. It must be very satisfying.

You'll be needing to build a clamp soon!

good going there chilipepper.i will start picking my autumn kings when the frost comes and make a big pot of homemade veggie soup from free range chicken stock.homemade soup seems to taste better on winter days

Beautiful, and it looks delicious! I agree with Paul on the homemade vegetable soup, it's perfect in winter. I make some every week, but not from home grown vegetables unfortunately...

Looks absolutely delicious, carrots taste so sweet and juicy when just lifted from the ground and cooked or even eaten raw.

Dave,great work you have there.Taste so sweet,and for sure a  welcome addition to the kitchen larder. 

Last year for the 1st time I left one bed of carrots in the ground. I had heard from 2 old neighbours in my early days of gardening that that's what they used to do. So when all the green had died back I replaced the fleece with ground cover and just dug them as I needed them. It worked very well for me and saved me a lot of work in the kitchen i.e. freezing, bottling, making soups and freezing them etc.

I used the ground cover for 2 reasons:

1. nothing could dig them up which happened in previous years

2. I just thought it might keep them that bit warmer but that's only a theory