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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: Fluffywelshsheep on June 03, 2009, 09:10:53 pm

Title: Different coloured carrots
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on June 03, 2009, 09:10:53 pm: Does anyone know where you can buy from a shop different coloured carrots seeds from ?

I check every time i go in to a shop that sells seeds

Linz
Title: Re: Different coloured carrots
Post by: rustyme on June 03, 2009, 09:20:13 pm: http://www.seedfest.co.uk/seeds/carrots/carrots.html

don't know about a shop , but the link above has purple ones for sale. I also bought some yellow , white , and some red ones from somewhere , lol, I will sort out the packets and let you know where I got them from .

cheers

Russ
Title: Re: Different coloured carrots
Post by: sellickbhoy on June 03, 2009, 10:11:49 pm: i tried a few last year - you can buy rainbow carrots which have purple, white, yellow, red and oranje

they ddn't do anything :-(

i was looking forward to them as well - but i'm off the idea now, will stick to "traditional" carrots

but i got them from dobies or some such place, iv'e seen them pretty regularly actually, surprised you are having trouble
Title: Re: Different coloured carrots
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on June 04, 2009, 09:58:33 am: No to Dobbies in stirling , did try them the other day I found some last night on ebay so gona try them. I whated to try a pack with all the different coloured but didn't have any luck so what i did was found different coloured packets with different coloures then when i get some am gona mix them together :)

See how i go just wanted to try something different.
Title: Re: Different coloured carrots
Post by: northfifeduckling on June 04, 2009, 06:12:33 pm: saw them in the Thompson and Morgan catalogue, never come across them in a shop :&>
Title: Re: Different coloured carrots
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on June 04, 2009, 06:18:26 pm: me neither , but i bet you the next shop that sell veg seeds will have them now i have bought them online (am just a skin flint and didn't fancy paying a couple of quid for a postage of a packet of seeds (the ones from ebay where only 99p and free postage a packet)
Title: Re: Different coloured carrots
Post by: northfifeduckling on June 04, 2009, 11:51:35 pm: That sounds good, linz, never thought of buying seeds from ebay, but other people get fertilised eggs from there, lol!
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Title: Re: Different coloured carrots
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on June 05, 2009, 09:32:41 am: Bourgh quite a few seeds and potatoes from ebay, not tried plants or plugs but it does good to check the feedback on people also when buy seeds check to see if they have included the 'expire' date or email them for information about them.

I was always told if you are to buy plugs or plants get them from the same part of the country or somewhere which is a little colder or the same temperature.

Linz