PREMIER SEEDS DIRECT - Carrot - Rainbow Mix - 1500 Finest Seeds

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Below I’ve answered some of the most common questions about growing carrots from seed. If you still have a question after reading though this section, ask it in the comments below. How many carrot seeds do you plant per hole? In a large mixing bowl, place pearl couscous, roasted red onions, mint leaves and ½ almonds together. Add ¾ honey Dijon dressing into the bowl and toss well. The plant produces a large, single (ideally), fleshy taproot. Carrot roots can be short and wide or long and tapered. This depends greatly on the variety and various soil characteristics. Propagation Seeding carrots directly into the garden is the best way to propagate this root vegetable.

Carrots can be preserved in many ways, which is why they’ve been, and have remained, such an excellent addition to the home vegetable garden. They can be stored in the refrigerator after washing. Carrots will lose moisture in most refrigerators because the humidity is relatively low. Store the carrots in a plastic bag or in the high humidity drawer of your refrigerator. When you dig up the carrots, if they are not going to eaten soon, cut the leafy tops off to prevent them from wilting during storage. If you have the luxury of growing carrots without the presence of carrot rust flies, you may still be concerned with soil dwelling insects such as wireworms, which seem to be true lovers of carrots. They are so attracted to carrots, in fact, that a full-grown carrot makes a very good lure for wireworms. Just bury carrots or carrot pieces in several areas around the intended seedbed, and mark where you bury them. If wireworms are present, you can then dig up the carrot pieces and easily remove the wireworms from the bed, or at least go a long way to reducing their population. Vegan option: For a vegan salad recipe, substitute honey with rice malt syrup or maple syrup. InstructionsAster yellowsis a disease that is transmitted by leafhoppers, which are small insects that feed on the juices of the plant. The roots will become hairy and the tops will become yellow if plants have become infected with aster yellows. Dobies strives to ensure that all its plants are delivered to you in the perfect condition for planting. While the majority of our nursery plants cope well with slight delays in intransit, sadly, the time it takes to deliver to certain locations in the UK means that we can't guarantee this for some of our smaller plug products and tender bedding and vegetable lines, which do not respond well to the extra journey time. So regretfully while we offer the majority of our live plant offering nationwide, we are unable to ship plugs, begging plants and tender vegetable plants to the following areas: HS, IV41-IV49, IV51, IV55-56, KW15-KW17, PA34, PA41-48, PA60-PA78, PA80, PH40-PH44, TR21-TR24, ZE1-ZE3. Gold Nugget (68 days)– Gold Nugget yields a uniform crop of medium-long carrots that are 5 to 6” in length. This is a Nantes-type carrot with cylindrical shaped roots that have rounded blunt ends and a good choice for shallow or clay soils. It’s relatively early to mature and has crunchy, lightly sweet roots.

I love the deeply colored roots of purple carrots. They make a delicious and colorful juice, but they’re also great raw in salads or lightly cooked. Avoid adding purple carrots to soups, however as they can turn the liquid purple! Carrot plants are notso easily distinguishable from their wild relatives, like Queen Anne’s Lace. The foliage is described as ferny or feathery, reaching up to 12+ inches in height. The plant is actually a biennial (flowering in the second year), but for production purposes, the carrot is grown as an annual. Sow seed thinly in rows, 1cm (1/2 in.) deep, 30-40cm (12-16 in.) between the rows as soon as the danger of hard frost has passed. Try to get about 4 seeds per 2cm (1 in.). Flavour wise, I have kept it simple with roasted rainbow carrots as I want the natural flavours of the produce to shine through.Orange carrots are the standard but there are many delicious varieties that offer roots in shades of red, yellow, white, and purple. What are rainbow carrots? This small, round variety is ready to harvest in 58 days and has excellent color. Harvest when the root is the size of a 50 cent piece. ‘Thumbelina’

Before I share my favorite rainbow carrot varieties, I want to point out that there is actually a carrot called Rainbow. It’s not a mixture of colored varieties but is a hybrid that produces different colored roots. The roots of Rainbow vary in color from orange to gold to pale yellow to white. The benefit of growing this variety is that you get a color range, but you also have the roots mature uniformly at the same time. The downside is that you don’t get red or purple roots from this hybrid.

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Growing carrots from seed is amazingly easy and fun. With no need for transplanting or starting the seeds indoors, it really takes the burden out of planting them. This lemon-yellow rooted variety produces sweet roots that are ready to harvest in about 75 days! The roots are typically about 8 inches long and are described as “crunchy and full of juice.” Pests and Diseases When sowing fresh carrot seeds, you can plant one per hole. But if you’re using old seeds, place 2-3 per hole, and thin them later. How deep do you plant carrot seeds? These rainbow carrots will be show stoppers at your table! Suttons have put together a fascinating blend of carrot colours to brighten up meal times and get the kids to eat their veg! 90 days from sowing to harvest (taken from our own trials and may vary in different areas).