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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medically reviewed by Aviv Joshua, MS, RDN Carrots supply 30% of the vitamin A in the typical American diet.Parsnips have ...

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) ...

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 ...

January has a way of making food feel adversarial. Suddenly, every meal, snack, and night out is framed as a test of ...

Carrots have been trending on menus for some time, propelled by a combination of renewed consumer interest in vegetables and the rising influence of New Nordic cuisine. While Danish chef René Redzepi, ...

The baby carrot is getting its moment in the spotlight. A group of vegetable processors and packers calling themselves “A Bunch of Carrot Farmers” are paying for a $25 million campaign to make the ...