Where do carrot seeds come from, and how can you get them? Learn how to save carrot seeds without cross-pollination with wild carrot, or Queen Anne’s Lace. The Seed Garden (Seed Savers Exchange, 2015) ...

Species of the carrot family (formerly named Umbelliferae, now Apiaceae) are still called umbellifers informally, referring to the structure of the flat-topped inflorescence, called an umbel. The ...

I’m out in Wisconsin this week visiting my son, Sam. Driving out from New England, watching the land shift from our northern deciduous forest to prairie is a real treat. Trees give way to grassland.

July’s weed of the month is wild carrot (Daucus carota), also known as Queen Anne’s lace. It is native to Europe and Asia and was introduced to North America as a vegetable crop. Since its ...

Many cultivated plant species are able to hybridize with related wild plants. However, it is not clear whether their hybrids are able to survive and reproduce outside managed fields, and if cultivar ...

Question: I was at the farmers market the other day and noticed quite a number of different colored carrots. I’m most familiar with the orange variety, but now I’m curious about the other types. Do ...

It used to be that one could buy carrots only three ways — either with their fern-like tops, individually by the pound or packaged by the pound in plastic bags. Any one of these methods of carrot ...