my gigantic carrot i pulled up thought id share

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shoegalmama2
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:D its my 1st year growing in my allotment and ive been getting this magazine alot thought id share a pic of 1 of my carrots i pulled up the other day :D
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All I can say is wow
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Bloody Hell! That is amazing & absolutely no sign of a hard core! Many congrats & welcome to the forum btw! You do realise you are going to be the go to lady for carrot advice! :)
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shoegalmama2
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haaa thanks guys ive had ppl inboxing me on facebook how i grew it so big :D x
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What a monster. Pity you don't have a local vegetable show in which you could enter it !
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that is quite magnificent!
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Ooo errr, missus! What a splendid root:)
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My word!
Here on the edge of the Chilterns, the stoney soil makes them fork when still an inch or two long. Those who grow them on our allotments do so in barrels or other containers.
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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shoegalmama2
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Primrose wrote:What a monster. Pity you don't have a local vegetable show in which you could enter it !

I know i would have deffo took it .... gutted i couldnt show it off to the world :lol: im so chuffed with it hope i get more like that when i pull the rest up .
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