How do you tell if a food is ripe?

Answer 1

Pull one up and see if it is sufficiently well developed. You probably have enough shoots that you can spare a test carrot or three. Anyway, you don't want them clustered too close or they won't have room to grow, so this is a good way to thin a little.

If you pull them too soon, you can eat them, and they will be lovely and tender, but you won't get much carrot for your buck. If you just leave them and leave them, they will be overgrown and thick and woody and start to sprout long secondary roots. Even at that, a late carrot can perk up a stew or furnish flavor for a sauce when it's well beyond the eating-raw stage.

Answer 2

You will first have to pull one carrot up to see if it is well developed. Usually if a carrot has a wide top that sticks from the ground, it is ready to harvest.

However, you will still need to pull one to figure out how big you want your carrots to be before harvesting.

Carrots are good, big or small, but they are tender and sweeter when they are smaller.

Answer 3

carrots will last 4-6 weeks, sometimes longer. before a carrot begins spoiling its texture will become very soft, this is still safe for consumption although not as enjoyable as the fresh product. at the first sign of mould or darkening of the carrot it is time to disregard.

Answer 4

if the orange smells juicy than it is ripe

Answer 5

when its bright orange and its stiff and crunchy plus no scabs

Answer 6

Pick it when it's green. Or, keep watering it and it will get bigger.

Answer 7

Pull one out. If it looks like a carrot, they're ready

Answer 8

A fork should easily penetrate the carrot without breaking it apart. Cooked carrots should be soft but not mushy.

Answer 9

Try to cook it over and over, got experience! That's the only way!