Our carrots are crunchy apparently. We wouldn't know because they keep getting eaten by (we think) mice.
Last year we grew about four hundred carrots with great success, they lasted us the whole year and we were hoping to do similar this year.
Sadly of our first seedlings batch that we placed in the ground about half disappeared entirely. Birds can't get at them, slugs blatantly are not to blame so we're blaming mice. Our second and third batches had similar problems despite us having placed so many traps around them that I wouldn't have been surprised if United Nations Mine Action hadn't set a tent up. Still many of them went.
Irritatingly those that were planted in the next bed were untouched and while we did catch some mice many no doubt remain. We've decided to grow one final seedlings tray in the hope that if we can find space to stick them elsewhere they'll have a chance to grow. We'll just end up harvesting them while they are still small but they are often tastier anyway.
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