whats wrong with my carrots?

tsuzmir

my first ever crop of carrots and thats what they turned into. taste is ok, but they're a bit too pale.
what could have caused they to get that shape?
thanks

kylith

I'm not terribly knowledgeable about carrots, but is your soil quite stoney by any chance?

tsuzmir

kylith wrote: »

I'm not terribly knowledgeable about carrots, but is your soil quite stoney by any chance?

nope, they're in raised bed filled with good quality soil

iainBB

We grow carrots every year and save seed from them to replant.

You need to grow them in fine lose soil with lots of sand and fine material.

if you grow them in top soil. Stoney soil or non-filtered compost you will get what you have in your picture.

How much sand did add?
Have you a picture of you carrot soil?

We use a mix of fine homemade compost that is filtered and sand in a raised bed.

looksee

One reason could be fresh manure which can cause forking, another could be insufficient thinning (some of the carrots appear to be twining round each other, but it is a bit difficult to tell).

Berberis

I started growing carrots last year for 1st time when I put in some polytunnels.
I sowed the carrot seeds into plugs and transplanted them into raised beds in the tunnel when their root system was well developed
My carrots ended up like the picture above.
This year I removed nearly all stones big and small in the raised beds this year and germinated the seeds the same way as last and they still ended up that way.
However I also sowed some seeds direct into an outdoor vegetable plot this year and these ones came out straight as a die.
An older than me chap, told me earlier this year that carrots don't transplant well and are better off sowed direct into soil.
Proved him right this year wonder if it was a fluke or what.

macraignil

Looks like forking to me. I got it with carrots before when there was too much manure in the soil.

looksee

Unless you are very carefully growing show carrots, yes sowing directly into the ground is the best way