Organic 'Rainbow' Carrot Mix

$4.49

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The organic 'Rainbow' carrot mix is a vibrant selection that transforms the vegetable garden into a living stage, with roots in surprising colors ranging from red to purple, white to sunny yellow, and of course classic orange. By sowing this mix, you cultivate much more than just a vegetable: you create a varied, joyful, and textured harvest, where each pulling offers a little surprise. These diverse carrot types, such as 'Atomic Red', 'Bambino Orange', 'Cosmic Purple', 'Lunar White', and 'Solar Yellow', lend an almost festive charm to the garden while maintaining excellent taste quality. Their fine, delicate foliage elegantly enlivens the rows, while their colorful roots enrich family harvests with sweet, crunchy, and nuanced flavors. They integrate wonderfully into an ecological vegetable garden, especially when accompanied by rosemary and sage, two companion plants known to help deter the carrot rust fly. Easy to grow in loose, well-drained soil, they reward the gardener with a beautiful diversity of shapes and colors without complicating cultivation. In the kitchen, this mix brightens up plates, whether enjoyed raw, roasted, glazed, or simply sliced to showcase its entire natural palette. This organic mix is thus an invitation to cultivate beauty, diversity, and gourmandise in the same row of seedlings.

Growing conditions

Watering
Regular
Exposure
Sun to partial shade
Germination temperature
10 to 24 °C (50 to 75 °F)
Germination (days)
10 to 20 days

Growth & dimensions

Spread
5 cm (2 in)
Height
20 to 30 cm (8 to 12 in)
Sowing depth
0.5 to 1 cm (0.2 to 0.4 in)

Flowering & harvest

Flowering
June to August
Sowing period
April to July
Harvest
70 days after sowing
Use
Salads, roasting, fresh consumption, juice, cooking
Companion plants
Rosemary, sage
Incompatible plants
Dill, parsnip