Heavy weight carrots

At Sturton Show there is a class for the heaviest carrot so I always like to try and grow a small patch of carrots purely for weight alone. It won't matter how forked or flea bitten they look so long as they are heavy but you do need to grow a variety that has the capacity to grow large and the variety I grow is one called 'Zino'. I sowed some seeds a few weeks ago in a pot in the greenhouse to get off to a head start and this weekend I transplanted them (yes transplanting carrots!) into the soil. But first you need to cut the bottom inch or so off the tap root. This encourages the carrot to fork and the more forked roots you have the more likelihood of getting a good weighty specimen. I also enriched the soil with some superphosphates, potash, seaweed meal, lime and hoof and horn