We have tried several ways to store carrots , sand ,wash them, not wash them and so on. We have found that if you pull them , let them dry a day or two out of the sun, cut tops off 1 inch above the top of carrot, brush off the loose dirt with a soft brush , wrap each carrot in saran wrap and put in a ice cream bucket and store in the fridge. We keep ours every year this way. We dug ours in Aug. last year and they are still stiff and great flavor, only got 4 carrots left from last year. That is 6 months from digging time till now.
We have tried several ways to store carrots , sand ,wash them, not wash them and so on. We have found that if you pull them , let them dry a day or two out of the sun, cut tops off 1 inch above the top of carrot, brush off the loose dirt with a soft brush , wrap each carrot in saran wrap and put in a ice cream bucket and store in the fridge. We keep ours every year this way. We dug ours in Aug. last year and they are still stiff and great flavor, only got 4 carrots left from last year. That is 6 months from digging time till now.