Carrots

At Gilfresh, we specialise in growing and supplying the freshest, highest-quality carrots to both retail and food manufacturing customers. With years of experience and a deep-rooted passion for farming, we have continuously refined and improved our growing methods and techniques down through the years to make ourselves a market leader when it comes to carrots.

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Growing Carrots

Carrot seeds are sown directly into the soil. At Gilfresh, we usually sow our first carrots in January and cover them to help raise the soil temperature. We cover all the carrots with straw in November to help ensure they are protected from frost damage. Carrot harvesting is done mechanically using our carrot harvester.

How to Use Carrots

Carrots can be eaten raw or cooked. Raw grated carrots are included in salads such as coleslaw and can be added to rice and nut salads or pasta salads. Cooked carrots are a popular accompanying vegetable and combine particularly well with other root vegetables such as swede or parsnip. They can be included in soups, stews and pies. Spices such as cardamom, cumin and coriander and herbs such as parsley and chives go particularly well with cooked carrots. Carrots are also included in a variety of sweet recipes, such as carrot cake and Christmas pudding.