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for Carrots

Rating Summary based on 13 reviews

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  • 3 Stars
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  • 80 of 80 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 anwar

    Member since 30/04/2003

    Reviews written: 560

    5 Stars The passionate root 01/04/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages see review

    Disadvantages Disadvantages see review

    I love most vegetables but carrots have to be my favourite both for their sweet taste and lovely colour. Carrots are really easy to grow, very good for you and can be used in numerous dishes. To begin with I thought I'd tell you a few facts about the humble carrot. Carrots have been grown for thousands of years although not as we know them today. The carrots of 5000 years ago would have been white, purple, red or even black. The taste would not have been sweet but bitter. Carrots were first grown in middle Asia and later brought to Mediterranean countries. In Roman times carrots were either ... more
  • 102 of 102 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 redeyes22

    Member since 16/01/2006

    Reviews written: 38

    5 Stars growing your carrots Review with images 20/02/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages good for you anf your family

    Disadvantages Disadvantages carrot fly

    Carrots are one of the easiest vegetable crops to grow, provided the soil has been well prepared. They are rich in in calcium, phosphorus and vitamin A. Carrots can be classified in two different ways: by shape or by the time of cropping. Shapes can be basically divided into three different groups, the short kind, which are round or stumpy-rooted; the medium length type, more or less sausage-shape or with a cylindrical tapering root; and the log rooted, tapering type. Long carrots can reach 3? in length, and should really only be attempted if you have near perfect growing conditions; otherwise ... more
  • 49 of 49 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 micksheff

    Member since 18/07/2003

    Reviews written: 764

    4 Stars Why Carrots Are Good For Your Eyesight! 26/09/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Low in Calories, No fat, Good Source Of Vitamin A

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Organic Varieties Are More Expensive

    When I was young my parents always instilled into me the importance of eating plenty of Fruit and Vegetables and my Dad always used to say "Make sure you eat up all of your Carrots 'Cause they're good for your eyesight." I always remembered this from an early age but never questioned why until I was much older. When I did eventually ask why Carrots were good for your eyesight the reply was "Have you ever seen a Rabbit wearing glasses?" Anyway I grew to love my Fruit and Vegetables and Carrots are still one of my favourites which is why I have decided to make them the subject of this review ... more
  • 48 of 48 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    SnowiestElf

    3 Stars Daucus Carota 22/01/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Easy to grow, can be grown in raised beds

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    Carrots a definitely not one of my favourite vegetables, but they are very easy to grow. They are grown as annuals (although they are really biennials). They have swollen orange taproots which may be up to 5 cm in diameter at the neck, and up to 20 cm in length. They have feathery green foliage, which grows up to 23 cm tall with a 15 cm spread. Normally, carrots are long and tapered, although some may also be rounded. There are many different types of carrots, early ones are usually small and slender and used young; maincrop types are larger and are used fresh or stored. Carrots are eaten ... more
  • 47 of 47 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    cherryfalls

    1 Star My PASSIONATE Hatred 07/06/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages None at all

    Disadvantages Disadvantages They taste, smell and are just generally horrible.

    I have had a lifetime long hatred for one thing more than any other, something that some people will find funny or stupid and something that others will be able to identify with wholeheartedly. The things I have a passionate hatred for are carrots. Ever since I can remember I have never been able to bring myself to eat them. I cannot remember where my intense dislike of this vegetable came from and I don’t know if it’s something that came from when I was a baby or what I just know that I don’t like them. I hate the texture, the smell and the colour of this vegetable and if ... more
  • 34 of 34 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    vinodgm

    4 Stars I can see you in the Dark 16/09/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Very healthy and high in Vit A, Tasty

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Pretty difficult to grow

    There are two things that everyone knows about carrots. They are orange and they help prevent night blindness because they are full of vitamin C. Both of these facts are technically incorrect. Carrots were formerly in colours of red, black, yellow, white and more commonly purple. It was only in the Middle Ages that the Dutch developed the orange carrot that we now know. They also contain only a small amount of Vitamin C equivalent to only about 10% of recommended daily allowance. The main vitamin in the carrot is Vitamin A. Carrots are ideal for those intending to lose weight and also those ... more
  • 31 of 31 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Aspen

    5 Stars CMW. Carrots Most Wonderful. 25/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Always fresher and tastier than the supermarket ones.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages A little bit of work, but it's worth it, and the exercise is good for you!

    I find it hard to believe, in this technological age, and with such a plethora of quality opinions on state of the art products, that 1300 words on carrots will generate any reads at all. But I am what I am. I do what I do. So here goes anyway. Here I was, browsing through the Garden Section as is my wont. It is, after all, my second home. And at times, less stressful than my first. And my thoughts turned to spring, and sowing time. Well, actually, I forced my thoughts to turn to spring, because I’m snowed in again, and gardening seems an age away at the moment. But since all the ... more
  • 17 of 17 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Sunnysmiles

    Member since 22/07/2005

    Reviews written: 534

    5 Stars Not only help you see in the dark 26/05/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages really good for you

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none unless you don't like them

    Its a great time for getting in the garden and I love to grow my own vegetables, they are great to watch growing and tasty to eat. carrots are really easy to grow and they are so crunchy to eat when you pick them straight from the ground, wash them and eat them raw. The best way to get a good yeild from your carrots is to prepare the ground your going to grow them in first, if you dig in lots of manure or rotted organic matter like rotted down vegetable peelings. Then mix in lots of bonemeal and make sure the ground is not stoney, if you don't get the conditions of the soil right before you ... more
  • 73 of 73 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 mumsymary

    Member since 23/09/2002

    Reviews written: 2066

    5 Stars long and orange 10/05/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages tasty

    Disadvantages Disadvantages ?

    Carrots Everyone must have eaten carrots at some time . I have a row of very small grass like green showing in my vegetable patch soon the first frond’y delicate green proper leaves will show me that it is where I sowed my carrots. I love baby carrots in a salad or older ones grated and lemon juice and mayonnaise added and pine nuts too make a great salad. I do not have much success with carrots my soil is very chalky and carrots prefer a more fertile soil than I have. Carrot seed can be grown from late spring to early summer I think the early ones are best. You could always start them ... more
  • 8 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Gardenex

    5 Stars Carrots in your windowbox 04/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages slug free

    Disadvantages Disadvantages need to water in dry weather

    If you long to have fresh crunchy carrots to munch on but you don't have a garden or your soil is unsuitable - no worries . It is perfectly feasable to grow small quantites of the rabbit's favourite food in containers and windowboxes . All you need is a windowbox or container with a depth of at least six inches , and a good quality growing medium . The compost should ideally not contain any stones or clay as this makes the carrots fork . That is to say the root will not grow straight down as it should but instead will bend or even split into two if it hits a stone or heavy clay. Bought compost ... more
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