SC - Carrots and Turnips-Period?
LrdRas at aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Thu Apr 20 19:17:09 PDT 2000
In a message dated 4/20/00 2:24:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
CBlackwill at aol.com writes:
<< Are these naturally occurring colors, or are they
synthetically/genetically
altered? I have not seen these before, and would love to get my hands on a
few. Think of the beautiful salads and primaveras you could make with these
things!
Balthazar of Blackmoor >>
They are cultivars of regular carrots. If you begin with some queen Ann's
lace and dig them up in the fall, picking out the biggest roots replanting
them and then saving the seed for a few years you can produce your own white
carrots easily. Are they new? Not really. The genes have always been there
and some breeders have seen fit to breed those color characteristics back
into the carrots. White carrots existed in Persia up until the 1200s when
orange carrots apparently became a novelty. They became little used again and
in the 14th-15th centuries red carrots are mentioned as being available in
markets with orange carrots becoming the norm once again in the 16th century.
White carrots have only recently been reintroduced and depending on how
picked over the seed displays are at your local markets should be readily
obtainable. Burpee's and several other companies have carried red carrots and
yellow carrots for a couple of years although I haven't seen them available
until this year from seed suppliers.
Ras
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