Sweet, Crispy, Crunchy Carrots!
Garden Week Fifteen 7/17/2018 ### Sweet, Crispy, Crunchy Carrots! Pusa Rudhira Red: high in beta-carotene and lycopene and so yummy! Whether you like orange, white, yellow, red, pink, or purple carrots, if you planted carrots this spring, you may be harvesting carrots now or soon. I myself harves...
Garden Week Fifteen 7/17/2018
Sweet, Crispy, Crunchy Carrots!
Pusa Rudhira Red: high in beta-carotene and lycopene and so yummy!
Whether you like orange, white, yellow, red, pink, or purple carrots, if you planted carrots this spring, you may be harvesting carrots now or soon. I myself harvested, some lovely St. Valery (orange), Parisienne (short, round, orange), Cosmic Purple (orange inside) and Pusa Rudhira Red (Coral red) carrots, so good!
You may have heard the story of King Orange and his love of all things orange. As I heard the story, carrots were cultivated through either a mistake or intention to satisfy this “King Orange”, an affectionate nickname giving to King William I, being the reason we know carrots to be orange today. Sounds more myth than truth. So, how much of this story is rumor and how much is true. Let’s find out.
Way back, an ancestor of the...
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