dipence71
Got the t-shirt
Besides give to chicken or compost??
Any uses for carrot tops??
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big brown horse
Hoof In Mouth
I have tons of beautiful carrot tops waiting for the answer to this question! 
freemotion
Food Guru
You both need a goat!
BBH, won't your sheep or horse eat them? I know it's kinda the same as giving them to the chickens or compost, but...saves on feed for a meal or snack, and highly nutritious!
I dried a lot of tops last summer/fall when the goats had little interest, since I knew, come winter, those beet and rutabaga leaves would have lots of appeal. I just laid them out on the woodpile that was under a roof.
BBH, won't your sheep or horse eat them? I know it's kinda the same as giving them to the chickens or compost, but...saves on feed for a meal or snack, and highly nutritious!
I dried a lot of tops last summer/fall when the goats had little interest, since I knew, come winter, those beet and rutabaga leaves would have lots of appeal. I just laid them out on the woodpile that was under a roof.
patandchickens
Crazy Cat Lady
If you cut them off with a little bit of the top of the carrot attached (can only do this for carrots being eaten *now*, not for ones being stored), you can actually re-plant the top, with care, and get some little new carrot roots to eat later. IME this works better with smaller carrots than with larger ones; if the top is too profuse you may want to remove the largest leaves; and you do have to coddle the thing for a while (humidity, bright indirect light, etc). It does work, although how *worthwhile* it is may be a matter of opinion 
Pat
Pat
big brown horse
Hoof In Mouth
Neither sheep, horse nor bunnie will touch those things! Sheep eats the carrot, but RUNS from the top! It must smell funny to her.freemotion said:
I usually just mulch my potted tomato plants with them.
Are they edible?
FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
Once they are big, I also just toss them to the rabbit, chickens or compost. Right now ours are still kind of small and I use the thinnings in the salad. I also chop them up into the dogfood I make.
Even if you only use them to mulch your tomatoes, that saves you on water and eventually adds to the fertility of your soil.
Even if you only use them to mulch your tomatoes, that saves you on water and eventually adds to the fertility of your soil.
big brown horse
Hoof In Mouth
Cool FD, you can eat them when they are young.
(Yes, I confess, I have a mulch obsession!)
(Yes, I confess, I have a mulch obsession!)
