A fine bunch of nice fat carrots! Growing decent carrots has been a bane in my "farming" career. Always spindly with tiny roots. Not this time!
My name is Bluewing and I have done this! (finally)
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I am impressed!
I only managed to get micro-carrots out of my north side garden that is in almost perpetual shadow and have given up by now...
That's been my world of carrots forever. I feel your pain. I had such a poor germination that I have carrots of every size left out there. I might get another half dozen if a hard killing frost holds off for another few weeks. But I don't hold out hope.
I grew mine in sand soaked in compost juice
Huge fuckin carrots.
I have a weird sand pit in my yard now though.
Hard frost won't harm them, imo you're harvesting a month early. Carrots can overwinter in the ground for super easy storage
Yeah, I know that. As I said, I just couldn't resist pulling these few. There are still plenty of them left in the box still trying to grow. Though I would leave them in the ground over the winter here. It. would take a pickaxe to get them dug up in a few months. We measure ground frost in feet here. Not inches.
Likewise with frost depth, not trying to rain on your parade. Thems some nice carrots you got there
You can over winter the little ones to give them a chance for next year.
Apply straw or mulch to protect them before the frost.
Not when temps hit -30F in raised beds. They will freeze and freeze hard.