Carrots

[PatrickPending]

Not me I work in the field of science.........

 

[Joe24]

Hi at great risk of being called cyclechat's carrot correspondant (although I m a vegetarian) I'll answer this ....

carrots do have flowers but they're generally pulled up before they flower, and as for their orange colour we can apparently thank the dutch for this (original carrots being purple) - they bred them to be orange in the 1500s to match the colour or the house of orange (dutch royal family)

Bet you wish you never asked

Thats the only reason they changed the colour to be orange?
I was expecting it to be something realy important.
Thanks for the information, you know alot about carrots.

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Carrots are good, yeah ok, but I think I prefer peas.

Sweetcorn wipes the floor with both though.

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Why are we the way we are?

Why does the sun rise?

Are the stars just pin holes in the curtain of night?

Who knows __________.

 

[Arch]

Not me I work in the field of science.........

Not a field of carrots?

 

[Cab]

Carrots aren't all orange. I've grown yellow, white, and purple varieties too. I heartily reccomend the varieties 'cosmic purple' and 'purple dragon' to anyone who fancies growing something a little different. 'White berlicum' is also pretty.

 

[Joe24]

Do the purple ones taste different to the orange ones?