Any carrot farmers ? 🥕

[DinosaurDiana]

In the last couple of months I’ve noticed the carrots have changed. They’re tasteless, bright orange and hard.
Does anyone know why, and where can I buy proper carrots ?

your local farm shop?

Don’t have one.

I buy the organic ones from the supermarket- Asda or Tesco- they are bit more tasty than regular ones.

Ok thanks, I’ll try them. I just wondered if they were GM carrots or something.

I'm a carrot allotmenteer although not a farmer

We picked the last of the over wintered carrots in about March and this season's are just beginning to be ready now. I would guess your tasteless ones have been in cold storage and have gone a bit starchy and tasteless.

Ok thanks.

It’s just that they’re more pointed than the usual carrots, brighter in colour, and harder. I thought they might be a different ‘make’ of carrot.
I’ll try organic for now, thanks.

DS is carrot mad and eats tons of them and can tell where I have bought them by taste! He swears Aldi carrots are the best!

Crop scientist rather than carrot farmer - if they look that different then yes, they will be a different variety. Not GM, there are lots of different varieties of carrot out there, all bred the old-fashioned way. Try a different shop (i.e. Tesco rather than Sainsbury's, not just a different branch of the same shop) and look hard at the carrots before you buy them to make sure they actually aren't the nasty ones.

@DinosaurDiana

It’s just that they’re more pointed than the usual carrots, brighter in colour, and harder. I thought they might be a different ‘make’ of carrot. I’ll try organic for now, thanks.

Might just be that the supermarket you use has changed supplier.

Thanks. I shall look for darker orange carrots with a rounded end.