Carrots take a while to mature. I planted mine in early May and am still harvesting them now, having only started harvesting in earnest in August. Luckily carrots like the cold and they will get sweet as they grow and the weather cools, so you should be able to harvest these later in September, October and beyond. Some people intentionally plant carrots in the summer to have a fall or even winter harvest. I forgot to pull a carrot once and it survived the winter (I live in Massachusetts, so not a mild winter, either). Anyway, you’ll know they are ready to pick when the leaves are very tall and bushy, and the root part of the carrot has swollen at the top to be larger than the stalks, where it meets the stalks. In the photo, your carrot is the same width as the stalks so it has more growing to do. In many cases, the root will start poking up above the soil. If you have to dig to see the top of the root, the carrot is still growing.
EaddyAcres
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Icy_Bottle_2634
Mine look like that too. I planted too many too close together
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Carrots take a while to mature. I planted mine in early May and am still harvesting them now, having only started harvesting in earnest in August. Luckily carrots like the cold and they will get sweet as they grow and the weather cools, so you should be able to harvest these later in September, October and beyond. Some people intentionally plant carrots in the summer to have a fall or even winter harvest. I forgot to pull a carrot once and it survived the winter (I live in Massachusetts, so not a mild winter, either). Anyway, you’ll know they are ready to pick when the leaves are very tall and bushy, and the root part of the carrot has swollen at the top to be larger than the stalks, where it meets the stalks. In the photo, your carrot is the same width as the stalks so it has more growing to do. In many cases, the root will start poking up above the soil. If you have to dig to see the top of the root, the carrot is still growing.
What variety
Mine look like that too. I planted too many too close together