Beginners harvest - carrots

[lgxkls]

Hello,
I have been growing some veg for the first time this year and have been moderately successful with potatoes, runner beans, courgettes and salad crops.
I have several rows of carrots which we have been eating throughout the summer but I was wondering what to do with the uneaten ones now it is getting colder. Do I dig them all up and if so when and how do I store them.
Also I have some very pathetic sweetcorn. Is it too late to hope that they may come to anything. They have very small cobs but don't look as though they will mature.
Thanks for any help
Karon

[lgxkls]

[tim]

I leave mine in as long as I can - until they start geting too eaten, or too furry. They are never the same when stored.

[aquilegia]

I think your sweetcorn's had it now, I'm affraid. What variety? Maybe choose an earlier one for next year. I did Kelvedon Glory this year which was ripe by mid September and delicious.

[MikeB]

Thanks for the info Aquilegia, will add Kelvedon Glory to my list of seeds for next year, could you by chance reccomend a good leek?

Regards

MikeB

[lgxkls]

Thanks for that -the carrots will stay put and the sweetcorns coming out!
Karon

[Robert_Brenchley]

A lot of my corn's just as pathetic. I don't know what variety it is, I was reduced to buying a lot when the stuff I planted mostly failed to germinate. I'm not sure what variety that was, but it seems to have done OK, and I got some ripe corn. The bought-in stuff was miserable. Overall it's not been much good, but I put a lot of that down to cold weather late in the season.

[undercarriage plan]

Hey Mike, I had a really good crop of leeks with  Autumn Giants, I'm very boring and grow the same variety every year, and so far they've been excellent. Lottie

[Merry Tiller]

Leeks king richard, atlanta, musselburgh and hannibal all do very well for me

[MikeB]

Thanks Lottie and Merry Tiller, I've been growing musselburgh for the last four years and the results haven't been very impressive.  I'll add autumn giants and king richard to my list.  Thanks again.

MikeB

[moonbells]

Thanks Lottie and Merry Tiller, I've been growing musselburgh for the last four years and the results haven't been very impressive.  I'll add autumn giants and king richard to my list.  Thanks again.

MikeB

I grow Verina F1, which is an Autumn Mammoth variety, highly resistant to rust and marketed as good for organic growers.  You can only get it from Unwin's. Have tried others including Musselburgh (which bolted) and don't like them as much. If you don't get them to germinate, then you can buy them at planting thickness from Gardener's Kitchen! I admit to cheating this year after my rather elderly seed germinated precisely two plants... have now got new seed to sow in 06!

My Verinas are already about 1.5" diameter and a couple were tempting me to pull them earlier today. But I do plant very early.

moonbells

[Derekthefox]

Leeks - I am growing 3 varieties - Tropita (early), Musselburgh (main) and St Victor (late). These three keep me in leeks up until about April ...
Sweetcorn - I choose Kelvedon glory because I can get a growers pack (about 300 seeds), which enables me to grow a substantial amount of sweetcorn (target of 100 plants).

Carrots - I have had outstanding success with Autum King and Berlicum, see my separate thread - talking about whoppers !

Hope this helps, keep it going

Derekthefox

[MikeB]

It really does help, Thanks everybody.

MikeB

[tim]

Who mentioned leeks??
We grew mini-leek Bleu-something & have been using them for a month.

Corn? We always use Honey Bantam.

http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/us/en/product/193/2