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...but they look like purple carrots???
Colourful veg are fun- so long as they have flavour
..am I right in thinking all carrots were purple originally?????
Do they hold that colour when cooked????"Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
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will they taste like real carrots? or are they ornamental?Comment
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I read that too somewhere Nicos. I seem to remember them changing to orange when they were introduced in HollandOriginally posted by Nicos View Postwon't enlarge......but they look like purple carrots???
Colourful veg are fun- so long as they have flavour..am I right in thinking all carrots were purple originally?????
Do they hold that colour when cooked????AKA AngieComment
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They look great! I'll be interested to hear how you get on with them and how they taste, keep us posted!AKA AngieComment
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my friend grew them last year........they are purple carrots, she steamed them and they retained their purple colour but boiling them turns them orange, looking forward to growing them! And I will keep you postedDont worry about tomorrow, live for todayComment
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The story goes that all carrots were purple until the Dutch decided to breed them orange as a tribute to the House of Orange. I don't know if it's true or an urban myth, but it sounds good
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We used to get purple carrots regularly from the organic shop where we lived in Germany. They look impressive and taste like a regular carrot. I think ours were deeply purple, but with an orange core. I also have some purple haze seeds about somewhere that I have to dig out and plant.Comment
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Those look splendid! I hope they taste as good as they look.
I'm growing yellow French beans (Neckar Gold) and purple mangetout (Ezetha's Krombek Blauwschok) as well as Borlotti "Lingua di Fuoco" and a mix of red- and white-flowered runners - the old boys are going shaking their heads at my gaudy plot!Comment
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I sowed some Purple Haze on 20/2 and I noticed last week that they had started poking their heads up. At the same time I sowed some regular coloured Nantes and some white ones, Creme de Lite.There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.Comment
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I have some John's Purple (I think that's the name) from the Heritage Seed Library to give a go to this year. Have had purple ones from the farm shop before but not sure what type they were. They were fairly standard carrot taste although a bit nuttier than normal which was really nice. If I like the ones I have then I'm hoping to save some for replanting next year to let them go to seed.
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We grew Purple Haze last year & will be again this...kept the purple on the outside but were orange inside...tasted great.the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.
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I'm growing those too. Never grown carrots before, got the seeds from a swap with someone, terrified of carrot fly and everything that can go wrong
more info on carrot history - never knew there was so much - Carrot History - Origins and Development
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Isn't it odd that carrots can be grown both orange, and purple - both words which don't rhyme with any other.A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/
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I'm growing these these year. Also Parmex (globes) which we had great success with last year and work really well in containers.My organic gardening etc blog - http://thecornflake.blogspot.comComment
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