Where carrots come from was , Re: Another good Unschooling article
Deb Lewis
***where do carrots come
from (they're almost 4 and 6.5). My DD remembered DH's garden from
the last few years and piped up, "you put seeds in the ground".***
And all the cultivated varieties of carrots came from wild carrots. Wild
carrots don't taste very good and are only edible (if you can even call it
that) when they're very young and tender. The beautiful Queen Anne's Lace
is the flower of the wild carrot. If you go into your local florists shop
you might find it there. I have a gangly bunch of it shedding tiny petals
on my table right now.
Carrots won't overwinter in my part of the country but I know some gardeners
who dig the roots and store them just so they can have their own seeds. At
a buck fifty nine for a pack of organic seeds at the whole foods market,
I'll save my limited basement storage space for David's (dh) home brew. <g>
We had a lot of fun when Dylan was little, crossing Petunia's to make new
colors. And we've had odd, crossed squashes volunteer on the compost heap.
Cucumber varieties cross readily and Tulip cultivars cross easily with wild
Tulips.
Deb Lewis
from (they're almost 4 and 6.5). My DD remembered DH's garden from
the last few years and piped up, "you put seeds in the ground".***
And all the cultivated varieties of carrots came from wild carrots. Wild
carrots don't taste very good and are only edible (if you can even call it
that) when they're very young and tender. The beautiful Queen Anne's Lace
is the flower of the wild carrot. If you go into your local florists shop
you might find it there. I have a gangly bunch of it shedding tiny petals
on my table right now.
Carrots won't overwinter in my part of the country but I know some gardeners
who dig the roots and store them just so they can have their own seeds. At
a buck fifty nine for a pack of organic seeds at the whole foods market,
I'll save my limited basement storage space for David's (dh) home brew. <g>
We had a lot of fun when Dylan was little, crossing Petunia's to make new
colors. And we've had odd, crossed squashes volunteer on the compost heap.
Cucumber varieties cross readily and Tulip cultivars cross easily with wild
Tulips.
Deb Lewis
jlh44music
"Deb Lewis" <d.lewis@...> wrote:
tiny little petals all over the place!)
old pumpkin ended up the year before, but I never saw any pumpkins (it
was also hard to get at).
I still remember the taste of carrots from my grandmother's garden,
freshly picked and washed off under the hose! Danielle loves to eat
cherry tomatoes and green beans right out of the garden. Oh, and I'll
never forget her excitement when she found her first tomato hornworm a
few years back! (they ARE kinda cute!)
Jann
>The beautiful Queen Anne's Lace is the flower of the wild carrot.>>I didn't know that Deb! I love Queen Anne's Lace (even if it DOES shed
tiny little petals all over the place!)
>And we've had odd, crossed squashes volunteer on the compost heap.>We had a pumpkin vine growing in a ravine in our yard where I think an
old pumpkin ended up the year before, but I never saw any pumpkins (it
was also hard to get at).
I still remember the taste of carrots from my grandmother's garden,
freshly picked and washed off under the hose! Danielle loves to eat
cherry tomatoes and green beans right out of the garden. Oh, and I'll
never forget her excitement when she found her first tomato hornworm a
few years back! (they ARE kinda cute!)
Jann