Carrot 'Purple

parvinkaurp

When carrots are ready to harvest I am ok with vegetables that I see but not at all growing things like carrots and sewn seeds of white reddish that went on my compost this morning did only grow less than one ins. I am google lady every time don't know about anything gardening I always look here at Garden's World.
  

Dovefromabove

Carrots come in different colours

 https://www.marksandspencer.com/s/food-to-order/adventures-in-food/baby-rainbow-carrots 

at one time only orange carrots were fashionable, but nowadays the seeds of some of the old different coloured varieties are available.  They taste just as good as the orange ones. 

Lyn

Weren’t they originally purple? 

Dovefromabove

Either purple or white @Lyn ... can't remember which ... maybe it was both?   I know the orange colour was a (relatively) recent development, and apparently it coincided with the ascent of William of Orange to the throne of England, or something like that, orange carrots became 'the thing' and the others were no longer wanted .... until now