Little Liliputian Carrots...

With the recent drop in temperature I started becoming concerned about my carrots in the ground in January.  Why were they still in the ground?  Because I wanted carrots longer than an inch long.  It was shortly after our fourth frost, so worried that they would rot, I dug them up.  They were still an inch long, but round like radishes. 

Strange, they were a standard variety - supposed to be five to eight inches long, 60 days till maturation.  They were in the ground for 7 months and still were Liliputian. I had even made sure to work the soil before planting and removed most of the stones.

So I cleaned, trimmed and scrubbed the little guys, cut in small rounds, and boiled until "al dente" and served with butter, sea salt and fresh ground peppercorns.  They were a hit!  Little Liliputian carrots are sweet and were hardly a side dish, trying to steal center stage that night at dinner!