Dengarden. If you’ve planted orange, purple or golden carrots, few moments are more exciting than watching healthy carrot ...

Their introduction helped double carrot consumption during the 1990s, and baby-cut carrots are so popular that breeders have developed varieties designed to be sculpted into three perfect pieces.

Depending on the variety, carrots can take anywhere from 55 to 80 days to mature. Here are a few popular types of carrots and how long until they're ready to harvest.

Carrots are insect-pollinated, so the recom­mended isolation distance between varieties–or between a variety and a population of wild carrot–is 800 feet to one-half mile (244 to 805 m).

How to Plant Carrots . You will want to grow carrots from seeds for optimal results. "Avoid buying or growing carrot seedlings as carrots are a root vegetable, and they don’t like their roots to ...

The familiar orange carrot was the focus of Dutch cultivators 700 years ago. The French later refined the crop, leading to the Nantes variety commonly grown today. Meanwhile, in India and China ...

How we test carrots Varieties for pots. We chose 25 varieties that we thought would do well as baby carrots and grew them in 15L pots filled with a Best Buy compost for patio pots in our trial gardens ...

How to Collect Carrot Seeds. Carrots are biennial plants, which means they only flower and produce seeds during their second year of growth. So, if you want to collect seeds from carrot tops, ...

Carrot seeds are tiny, and you can get a lot of plants from just one inexpensive packet — like this two-pack set of HOME GROWN Tendersweet Heirloom Carrot Seeds, which contains 6,000 seeds and ...

Q: While digging carrots, I found one white one among all the regular orange ones. What causes one to be white? -- Anne Barbee, Moorhead.A: Besides the most commonly grown orange carrot varieties ...