What a bunch.

Over the last few years we've tried to grow carrots, sometimes we have lots of feathery green tops but very strange looking carrots appear, other years very few grow at all  and we've always assumed it's to do with the soil.  But no matter what we dig into it to make it softer or richer and no matter how many times we rake out the stones to stop the carrots 'forking' we never achieve the perfect carrot.

But look at these!!

All it takes is the right sort of carrot for the soil you have and these are it.  Round carrots for stony soil or container gardening.  We tried them at the end of last years season - planted some at the beginning of June before it got too hot and they did quite well.  This year the first sowing was planted in March followed by two more lots - these are from the first sowing so they've taken about 8 weeks.  And lots more to come  :)

We ate these last night with roast wild boar, some baby turnips and the last of the fresh peas followed by strawberries and ice cream -  no, we don't make ice cream,  that comes from the supermarket.