Storing Carrots

[newmannewy]

I read if your storing them in the ground u need to protect them with a few inches of straw or some fleece of some kind to protect them from frost. I was thinking if you leave the green foliage on would it end up rotting the carrots from the top down.

I know u can store spuds in the ground for a while by cutting the foliage off. Wondered if it was the same for carrots. I guess if no one knows I will cut foliage off half and leave the other half & see how it goes.

[Alison]

You honestly don't need to do anything, the tops die down anyway and that doesn't cause any rotting of the carrots at all. I always grow mine under enviromesh and leave that on over the winter too which provides a bit of protection but I still got decent carrots keeping the winter before last when it was the coldest we'd had in years. The only problem was that I had to chisel the top section of the soil to break through the frost. Slugs and snails were not a problem either, they didn't do any damage despite there always being loads on the lottie, they always prefer the fresh green shoots rather than hard roots.

[chefgage]

I left mine in the ground last year, through most of the winter, I was even seen digging carrots up
at half eight at night on Christmas eve (for the reindeers you understand )
The question being asked about leaving the tops on...... I left the tops on and the tops just die back,
It does not effect the carrots.