Growing carrots from seed is something even beginning gardeners can do successfully. And homegrown carrots come in an assortment of fantastic colors—orange, purple, red, yellow, and white—and are much ...

I was checking out at the grocery store the other day when the clerk asked whether I wanted the green tops removed from my carrots. I started to reflexively answer “yes,” as I always have except for ...

A biennial is a plant that grows for two years before producing new fruit or seeds. Carrots are biennials, but that label refers to their seeds rather than their roots. The carrot root is typically ...

You can fit carrots (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) almost anywhere in the garden. They don't take up much space, and the long taproots help to break up and aerate the soil for other plants. Some ...

Medically reviewed by Aviv Joshua, MS, RDN Carrots supply 30% of the vitamin A in the typical American diet.Parsnips have twice the folate of carrots.Parsnips were used to sweeten food in medieval ...

Carrots, being a root vegetable, are unpredictable; you never quite know what they look like until you dig them up. Sometimes, the carrots you pull are disappointing—thin, almost thread-like, or ...

Where do carrot seeds come from, and how can you get them? Learn how to save carrot seeds without cross-pollination with wild carrot, or Queen Anne’s Lace. The Seed Garden (Seed Savers Exchange, 2015) ...