The set with the red card against them is far from being the longest. In fact they look as if the exhibitor (can't remember who it was) snapped the whip on one of them just past the main body of the carrot and then trimmed the other two to be the same length, rather than having two so much longer than the rest perhaps? They are also not the heaviest around the shoulder. But they obviously had exceptional condition, colour and uniformity and beat off the rest of the competition. Too often I've seen people look around in bewilderment at a bench full of produce and plonk their exhibit down quickly and beat a hasty retreat, or else not bother at all. But rest assured if you have the three main attributes the judges are looking for you will always be in with a shout, and size carries very few percent of the points no matter whether it be onions, carrots or radishes. It's no good looking on after judging and thinking mine were better than those!
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As the saying goes "if you aint in you cant win"
I suppose you can't be put off, you've got to give it a go to be in with a chance at the end of the day.
Never understood why so much kudos is given to the extra 2 ft of cotton thin tap root you can somehow manage to extracate from the deepest recess of your container without snapping it anyhow.
Good on the Judges,otherwise it may as well just be a longest carrot comp.
I think the fine 'whip' of the carrot still looks good and enhances the exhibit if you can get as much of it out as possible, but you're right it carries no value as such.
However I reckon if there were two equal exhibits that the judge was struggling to split the length would come into play as it shows the judge the exhibitor has been skilful in his root extraction !!!
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