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Post by orflo on Oct 16, 2008 23:15:53 GMT -5
 By orflo, shot with DiMAGE A2 at 2008-10-16 from left to right: jaune obtuse du doubts,purple dragon,have to searc h the name for this one ;D ;D ;D,blanc à collet vert, purple dragon (there's always lots of variability with this one), jaune obtuse du doubts, again the 'unknown' one,and two jaune obtuse du doubts...and all great tasting!!! |
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Post by americangardener on Oct 16, 2008 23:30:55 GMT -5
Ok..
Frank i think i changed my mind about trading. Ya got any larger quantities of seeds? I was thinking like a 1/2 tsp at least. I can even get bout 2 tsps per packet no problem.. i mean i got pounds of em if you got pounds of yours.. or ya can get some cheap. I'll trade ya those.
DAve
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Post by flowerpower on Oct 19, 2008 5:44:14 GMT -5
They look tasty. lol I love the foliage color on the Purple Dragon. The white is interesting. How does it taste?
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Post by orflo on Oct 20, 2008 13:24:23 GMT -5
All of these taste really good, the 'other' white one must be either 'blanche à collet vert' or a cross with the wild carrot, my notes said nothing about another white carrot. If you could grow out only one , I would go for the yellow one 'jaune obtuse du doubts', this is the best tasting of the above (but other people, other taste, no?  ) |
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Post by canadamike on Oct 20, 2008 13:45:02 GMT -5
Everybody that got PURPLE DRAGON this year are just crazy about their taste. I don't know if it's my soil, but boy!! I had them for the first time this year apart from raw ( I eat a lot of raw carrots) and they were sublime. They have had 6-7 small freezes though...
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Post by flowerpower on Oct 21, 2008 5:33:25 GMT -5
Orflo, is the wild carrot in your area Queen Anne's Lace or something else? I'm just curious. I was able to get a pack of mixed colored carrots for 1/2 price. And I also have a few others that are not orange. I hope I get some as nice as the pic. lol But one carrot I haven't grown in a while is Tom Thumb. A good variety for pots. I always underplanted them with lettuce.
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Post by americangardener on Oct 21, 2008 9:03:12 GMT -5
Lynn.. i might have something that ya might like.. i'll get ya a list in the growout thread later. I know i got one purple one.. but it's a hybrid. called purple haze i believe. I got several others in small packets that i gotta dig out to put into trials this year too.. and i always got commerical varieties if ya want any.
Orflo.. if ya want to do a trade and anyone on here wants anything too.. ya can just send em in one envelope to any one of us and we can mail em around the US to each other. Might save some on postage.
Dave
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Post by orflo on Oct 21, 2008 13:53:29 GMT -5
Orflo, is the wild carrot in your area Queen Anne's Lace or something else? I'm just curious. I was able to get a pack of mixed colored carrots for 1/2 price. And I also have a few others that are not orange. I hope I get some as nice as the pic. lol But one carrot I haven't grown in a while is Tom Thumb. A good variety for pots. I always underplanted them with lettuce. Flowerp, I don't know exactly what it is , it must have come out of the packets I received from a friend. I think it's a cross between the Queen Anne's and another one, it's definitely not the 'wild' carrot I have in the wilder part of the garden, these wild ones are a bit browner and certainly less straight. Michel , I agree with you on the purple dragon, very good, but this jaune obtuse du doubts, hah, so good ;D ;D ;D. If you want an even sweeter version of carrots, you have to grow skirret (sium sisarum), in fact easier to grow, propagated mainly by roots , and nice plants. they take up a bit more space, but they are also more productive. Dave, thanks for offering, I'll wait a bit for everything, in order to mail a few big packs. After all, winter hasn't begun yet...  But don't worry, I do send whatever I promise (except when some stupid mice eat my seeds or....), Frank |
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Post by flowerpower on Oct 22, 2008 6:21:45 GMT -5
Dave, that's it. Purple Haze was one I found. I like carrots, but I have no patience to dig very deep and pull rocks for long types. I'd be here forever. lol
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Post by ottawagardener on Oct 27, 2008 22:49:19 GMT -5
I'm another one in the love the dragon carrot club. Some days I think it's all I should grow but then other carrots are a bit on the bitter side in my garden. I am also looking forward to trying skirret again this year. Last year, the seed I received didn't germinate.
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Post by canadamike on Oct 27, 2008 23:20:31 GMT -5
I did not put my skirret seeds in the round this year. Will they be ok next year?
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Post by orflo on Oct 28, 2008 0:02:11 GMT -5
IF they have been grown on two year old (or older) plants, they should be OK. Germination never seems to be really high though, expect 50-60 %. One year old plants do not produce good viable seeds (germination O-10 % normally). I've sown 3 year old seeds with success, just sow lots . After all, they are prolific seed producers... Maybe this is one of the things that never were selected thoroughly for good seed productivity. I'm trying to make a list of all these thing: propagated by seeds (almost all 'our' modern vegetables are grown from seeds); or grown on by other means; and there's some pattern in it: nearly all Andean tubers are grown from tubers or cuttings (mashua, oca, ullucus, potato, mauka, pepino,capsicum baccatum, even tomatoes are easy to grow from cuttings,...), and , strangely enough , some of 'our' older vegetables as well: lathyrus tuberosus, the already mentioned skirret, sorrel (try it!), asparagus, some brassica varieties, leek,other allium varieties... Maybe carrots could be re-selected for growing and multiplying them the way skirret is multiplied?  |
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Post by canadamike on Oct 28, 2008 0:06:38 GMT -5
Ouf!! Tha t might be a stretch!!   |
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Post by ottawagardener on Oct 28, 2008 7:53:34 GMT -5
Orflo, I applaud the idea. I suppose it would have to be plants that could produced rooted cuttings, tubers, or that could be divided. I would love to look at your list when you're done.
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But don't worry, I do send whatever I promise (except when some stupid mice eat my seeds or....),
