And now for something completely different

  

 If truth be told, carrots have not been a huge success for us this year.  The germination rate was poor, as it was for almost everybody else on our allotment - the probable reason being that the soil is too rich.  There is nothing carrots enjoy more than growing up in poor thin, sandy tilth.  Still, we have no complaints over the size and voracity of those that did get started.

It seemed rather a shame to use them simply as vegetables, so we have begun with 4 pots of spicy carrot chutney



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  1. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2023 at 11:12 AM

    That looks delicious! I can see sone carrot in the chutney - it's always reassuring to be able to identify the ingredients in something!

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