Seed Savers Exchange Carrot, Jaune Du Doubs

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SKU: 1605
Regular price $4.25

Seed Savers Exchange

Carrot, Jaune Du Doubs

Daucus carota

  • Bright yellow skin
  • Conical shaped roots
  • Roots grow to 8-10 inches
  • Sweet flavor improves with cooking
  • Stores well
  • 60-70 days
  • Packet of 250 Seeds

A French variety. Its name comes from the yellow color of its skin (jaune) and the region in eastern France around the Doubs River. Bright yellow 8-10" conical roots. Sweet, distinctive flavor improves with cooking; roots retain their color. Stores well. 60-70 days.

Learn To Grow It

This crop can be direct seeded into warm soil after the last spring frost. If you sow a section or row every two or three weeks, you can get a continuous crop.

These seeds can be broadcast evenly in sections of the garden or planted in rows and thinned to 2-3 inches apart. Plant your seeds 1/8-1/4 in. deep.
 

Keep the soil around these plants moist until the seed has germinated and weed free throughout the growing season. Mulching the soil around the plants will help keep the roots cool.

Mulching the soil around this crop can help protect the plant and keep roots cool and moist. In frost-free zones, this crop can be grow throughout the fall and winter.

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Yellow Carrots !

Trying something new. Germinated easily. Looking forward to the end result of taste come harvest time.