Purple carrots after 6 weeks

Purple Carrots after 6 weeks

The purple carrots are still doing nicely - I had to thin a few out earlier this week as I noticed that there were some plants very close to others.  Reassuringly there were already nice long roots on each of the thinnings.

Purple Haze - after a month

So a month has passed since I planted these, and they are still growing well, but I'm a long way from taking a first harvest.

Purple Haze carrots after a month

I've actually planted a few more of these in some gaps where I have eaten the lettuces, so I'm hoping they will be tasty when I do get to eat them.

Purple Haze Carrot seedlings after 3 weeks

They're coming along nicely now and a lot of carrot shoots have surfaced, so as they come up I have just tried to  ensure none are too close together.  I'll thin them properly when a little bigger, but for now I'm happy to see the seedlings just growing stronger.

Purple Haze carrot seedlings

Remember to click on the "Purple carrots" link on the right of this page or directly at the bottom of this post to see week by week how the carrots have grown from seed to seedling to fully grown plant to (hopefully) the date of harvest.

Purple Haze F1 Hybrid

I actually read the seed packet earlier, and found the proper name of purple carrots is "Purple Haze F1 Hybrid", which sounds good to me.  Carrots named after a Jimi Hendrix song can't be too bad.

Happy to also report that the carrots germinated this week, two weeks after planting.  Please excuse the photo, I'm not so good at close up photos just yet, but you can see the small shoots just coming through.

2 week old Purple Haze carrot seedlings

Still no sign of purple carrots

May 7th today, and despite a careful examination of the ground - no seedlings were emerging.

Purple Carrots

I saw these seed packets in the garden centre, and they looked great, so I thought I'd give them a try.

Carrots were originally this colour apparently and it was the Dutch who bred the familiar orange colour.

BBC article about purple carrots

They were planted on 29th April - so far (2nd May) there is no sign of any seedlings.