The Perfect Carrot

I discovered the perfect carrot last year! While browsing through the farmers market, I overheard a customer at one booth raving about the carrots she had purchased the week before. She proceeded to buy several pounds of these deep orange, short, stubby carrots. While I was looking over the carrots, another customer came up, and she also started raving about how wonderful these carrots tasted. I was curious, but sceptical. After all, a carrot is a carrot is a carrot, right?

Wrong! These carrots were worth all the ravings. I bought a couple of carrots to try them out, and I don't think I had ever tasted a carrot as sweet and delicious as these. The following week I was one of the customers raving about those carrots, and buying several pounds worth.

Having a gardening mind set, I asked what kind they were. I wanted to buy seeds and plant my own, even though I have not had much luck with carrots in the past. These were worth trying again. I have been watching for Chantenay carrot seeds ever since. (I tend to be too impatient to order seeds from a catolog. I want to buy them RIGHT NOW!)

I didn't plant any Chantenay carrots last year, but decided to read up on them this year, and maybe give them a try. They really could be the perfect carrot for me, since they are listed as one that grows well in containers. If I can't grow them there, maybe I will convince my dad to let me plant some in a small section of his garden. Now all I have to do is wait patiently for my seeds to arrive. Or maybe not so patiently. I
could always go visit THE CARROT MUSUEM while I am waiting.