I’ve never seen how carrots are grown. Do they have seeds or something?
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I’ve never seen how carrots are grown. Do they have seeds or something?
As carrots grow, the green foliage above ground (carrots are a root vegetable) will eventually turn into a flowering top. When it does so, it is called bolting. Inside of the flower, you will find carrot seeds that you can harvest for another carrot planting. Carrot seeds do not come from the actual carrots themselves!
When you buy carrots in the grocery sometimes they come with the green tops still on. Imagine these still in the ground with the green tops sticking up. Now. let these plants be until they bolt and they will send up shoots with seeds on the end. You can harvest these seeds and this is where they come from. If your carrots are not hybrid, you can plant these seeds the next year. If your carrots are hybrid, or do not know, don’t bother. Carrot seeds have a low rate of germination so it is usually good to buy them. Try buying them from your local farmers market. You will get much better carrots.