Curly Carrots and rampant peppers
Looks like this is going to be the last hot weekend of the summer (and may in fact be the first hot weekend also) so I took the opportunity to see what is left on the roof terrace and harvest.
I could tell that the carrots looked a little odd from the top and they needed to be dug out rather than pulled, but I was never expecting what I found, curly carrots! J shaped carrots that it appear just decided to start growing the other way at some point, the pot would have had plenty more room to grow into, but they just appear to have taken it apon themselves to grow sideways, bless them!
Also the peppers are still in full growth with little ones still appearing, not too sure what to do about this, whether to leave outside or bring inside, will need to do some research.
I planted these in with the lettuce and rocket, and after these had died off I had really forgotten about the carrots, but given the extra room they now started to flourish. I ate the first two from the batch yesterday. They were fantastic, real carrot flavour, much softer than supermarket carrots, I was originally going to cook them, but after tasting one I thought that would be sacrilege to the flavour and had them in a salad. Only have another 2 left in the ground, wish I had planted more