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  • The amazing world of busty the carrot...

    I've had more success with my carrots this year than ever before, even though I didn't get very big ones. However I did get one very strangely shaped carrot, which I have nick-named 'busty'...

    Have a look for yourself - it's an appropriate name!
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  • #2
    Oer missus! You certainly have some interesting appendages there!

    Was that the only carrot like it? Was it in different conditions in any way - i.e. was the soil stony or anything - just wondering what causes a busty carrot!

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Slug View Post
      ..............just wondering what causes a busty carrot!
      I agree, best to keep a-breast of these things Slug
      ntg
      Never be afraid to try something new.
      Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
      A large group of professionals built the Titanic
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      • #4
        Intersting Eskymo ! Nice to hear from you. Not sure but I think carrots divide like that if the ground is too well fed. Maybe somebody else knows different.

        From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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        • #5
          I dug a trench and filled it with compost...and sowed the carrot seeds in that and busty ended up on the edge. The rest of the carrots grew just fine, so not sure what made busty get such defined features so to speak.

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          • #6
            Oh dear Nick... your jokes don't improve do they!!

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            • #7
              all my carrots have grown like that dont know wha i have done wrong can anyone tell me a good variety for next year please

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              • #8
                I've had a few like that, but could hardly call them busty, up to five/six carrots seeming to grow together and curling around each other. I think partly it was because I hadn't thinned them enough. Most of the others have grown really well. I haven't really fed the ground, just dug in a bit of home made compost, not alot though.

                Mine were Early Nante - was that the same as yours Eskymo?
                ~
                Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
                ~ Mary Kay Ash

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                • #9
                  The variety I gre this year was 'Carrot Autumn King 2' - a maincrop - I got the seeds from Aldi.

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                  • #10
                    Hi Eskymo
                    The usual cause of carrots forking or "going busty" like yours is that the ground is too well fed and rich in nutrients as Alice said. However, it is possible that small stones could have contributed to the start of the shape and the rest just became emphasisied as the root developed.
                    Rat

                    British by birth
                    Scottish by the Grace of God

                    http://scotsburngarden.blogspot.com/
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                    • #11
                      Hi Eskymo, you should enter her in the National Trust Ugly Veg. competition, with a figure like that I'm sure she'd win!
                      Here's the link.
                      www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-global/w-special_projects/w-plot_to_plate/w-ugly_veg_competition.htm
                      Into every life a little rain must fall.

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                      • #12
                        Aieeee! It's winking at me!
                        Head Burro
                        www.wildburro.co.uk
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                        • #13
                          You can't beat those little Paris Market ones, grown in a container, pulled, dipped in garlic mayonnaise, the perfect crudités

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