Carrots

I love most vegetables but carrots have to be my favourite both for their sweet taste and lovely colour. Carrots are really easy to grow, very good for you and can be used in numerous dishes. To begin with I thought I'd tell you a few facts about the humble carrot. Carrots have been grown for thousands of years although not as we know them today. The carrots of 5000 years ago would have been white, purple, red or even black. The taste would not have been sweet but bitter. Carrots were first grown in middle Asia and later brought to Mediterranean countries. In Roman times carrots were either eaten raw with salt and olive oil or coked with a cumin sauce. ...  Read the complete review

Carrots are a great way to start growing your own vegetables. They are fairly easy and if you harvest them while they're still fairly small you only have to wait 12 weeks between planting and harvesting. They are very nutritious and are a good source of vitamins A, B, C, D, E and K as well as potassium. Carrots do best in a bed, but can also be grown in containers. Either way, they like free draining soil that is fairly loose, so that they can push down and create a nice long root. If you do grow in containers, you will need to use something at least 25cm deep. There are a lot of varities of carrot you could try. Amsterdam are fairly slim ...  Read the complete review

Carrot (in Latin Daucus Carota) is what is called a root vegetable. Most of the carrots you find in Europe are different shades of orange. It grows twice a year and can be eaten raw, chopped or cooked. I normally eat them either raw, with salad, or I add them to sauces I prepare for pasta. There are also some puddings you can prepare and cakes, but I am afraid I cannto tell you much more because I am not able to cook them. Carrots are easily available in supermarkets in UK and are rich in B Carotene, which turns into Vitamin A when eaten by humans. Vitamin A helps improve your vision, particularly night vision. During the famous battle of Britain, ...  Read the complete review

Carrots Carrots are a root vegetable, They are usually orange in colour, but more recently some growers have produced white and red carrots by geneticaly modifing them. They are available all over the uk and many other parts of europe. There are many growers in the uk the main being: M H Poskitts, Hays and Thompsett B. Carrots come in many different varietys ( Chanternay, Baby chanternay, organic, White satin ect) Carrots were originally a burnt red colour before they were genetically changed by a grower that liked the orange colour. Carrots contain vit b and vitamin a when eaten by humans, many people believe eating carrots ...  Read the complete review

Ever since I was a child I've hated carrots. I think that was because I was made to eat large quantities of them, cooked 'al dente'. They were cheap and very healthy for growing children, so they made an appearance at every meal. There was never any question of liking, or not liking them. We were given them to eat and we ate, without complaint, but often making screwed up faces to each other. We were constantly reminded that carrots would enable us to see in the dark. (Well, there is a lot of vitamin A in them.) Mother reminded us that rabbits ate lots of carrots and they had lots of fun running around the fields, (hee hee! I didn't know what I know now about ...  Read the complete review