Growing long carrots

Just in case anyone is wondering how you grow carrots as long as those I'm holding in the pic posted below then here's how:

You need to get hold of some old plastic drums and cut the bottom out. Lay them on raised beds of sand and fill the drums with sand also (coarse builder's sand). In effect you have made a long tube. The sand provides a free draining growing medium that encourages the carrots to go down in search of moisture. Conical holes are cored out and filled with a growing mixture of sifted compost/sand/soil and various fertilisers.

The picture above shows the various 'stations' with the carrots just through prior to thinning. This all needs to take place around the end of March to give you enough time to harvest decent roots for the shows starting at the end of August.