Saturday, September 22, 2007

oxheart carrots

carrot slice
carrot bunch colander
Oxheart is an old heirloom variety that grows enormous - short, fat roots up to 1 lb or more. I harvested a nice bunch of these last night for dinner. They tasted great.

Daucus carota

10 comments:

CD and SP said...

Your photos are just gorgeous-do you mind me asking what kind of camera you use to take your lovely garden pics??

kathy said...

Thanks!

Camera:Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi

You can see camera information for all of my photos if you click on the picture. The camera I used is listed at the right. More specs than you'd ever want to know are available under "more properties".

Its a wonderful camera. I have a multi-purpose and a macro lens for it.

Tea said...

Neet looking carrots! I`ve never seen any like his. I bet they were good :)

tea
xo

Matron said...

What a wonderful carrot! Might work better in my soil as it looks like I wouldn't get forking problems. More like a beetroot shape.

Doctor Mom said...

My mouth is watering! What a juicy carrot.

Connie said...

Wonderful photos! Would like to try this carrot next year.

kathy said...

I think I'll grow this again next year too. Its done well.

Celt said...

Ok! Where do you get the seeds?! That is the most amazing carrot I have ever seen!

kathy said...

You can get them at Seed Savers Exchange or, where I got mine, at Seeds of Change.

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