Where carrot seed comes from
This is where those tiny, slow-to-germinate carrot seeds come from! For leaf and root crops, you often have to go out of your way in the veggie garden to see first-hand how exactly their seeds are produced—the crop is harvested and eaten before the flowering stage starts. Carrots are biennials, they go to seed only in their second year, so unless you’re seed-saving, or accidentally leave some behind over the winter (as we did here), the entire flowering process will remain a garden mystery. For carrots, if it was mystery, no longer…!
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Steve Mudge said,
June 27, 2007 @ 9:40 am
When I was living in coastal Oregon last year I saw these beautiful white flowers popping up in the springtime–wasn’t sure what they were; after a little research it turns out they were wild carrots–the original species from Eurasia…they’ve naturalized in the U.S.–even found them in Texas this year.