Carrot Seeds

Carrot Seeds

The carrot is a biennial which we grow as an annual. The cultivated carrot seems to have originated in Afghanistan around 5000 years ago in those day its roots were purple or violet rather than the now-familiar orange. We believe an orange carrot was selected in the Netherlands around 1600 but the story it was developed to honour the Dutch Royal House of Orange is probably fictional although this was once widely believed.