These take 10-12 weeks, whereas large maincrop carrots need deep soil and 5-6 months to mature.

With an unusual and sweet flavour, parsnips look like large white carrots.

Guderian reached into the pocket of his work smock and took out a large carrot.

"They held a pretty large carrot in front of the town - they were talking $25 million a year."

That's a large carrot to dangle before a terrorist's nose.

Without a food processor, it's better to use large carrots and grate them by hand on a box grater.

And it held out a very large carrot.

Not a bad speech, he decided - a large carrot and a small stick.

To that end, a large carrot was required.

And even the larger carrots often reward quantity of work, not quality.