Decoy1
Garden Addicted
I’ve grown Chantenay Red Cored quite frequently. It’s always stump-nosed like yours but often somewhat longer. It’s a friendly carrot and I love your particularly short fat ones!They can probably grow for another month or so out there, but the 'Chantenay Red' carrots are living up to their true form today - short, fat, blunt. (I could make a joke right there but won't.) I think these can get quite a bit bigger than this really, but for my garden they're already big and clunky. Excellent flavor too. A seed trading friend in Spain tells me that this is the carrot of choice for her because summers are so hot, and she has really clayish soil. What a funny turn of fate that my row of 'Kyoto Red' and this one are side by side in the hottest spot of the carrot garden. The least tolerant next to the most when it comes to heat.
I enjoy this carrot enough that I'd grow it again! I didn't realize in terms of form it was this distinctive. I bought all the seeds in a flurry and did no research really on them, until now. In fact when I pulled these up my first thought was - are they supposed to look like this? Turns out they are!
Ah, I love garden surprises. Even silly ones like this. You know you must be a garden nut when the shape & size of the new carrots exhilarates your soul.
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