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The Rainbow Carrot Collection | 5 Italian Heritage Varieties for Ireland

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Five Italian heritage carrot varieties for Irish gardens. Purple, orange, yellow, and white. Sow March to July, harvest June to November.

Five carrot varieties. One row. Six months of harvest.

These are not the pale orange things from the supermarket. These are Italian heritage carrots bred for flavour, grown in Irish soil.

What you get

  • Nantese di Chioggia — the classic sweet cylindrical carrot from the Veneto. Reliable, crunchy, stores well through winter.
  • Flakkee Gigante — large late variety for autumn and winter harvest. Deep roots, strong flavour.
  • Berlicum — mid-late crunchy cylindrical carrot. Excellent raw or roasted.
  • Cosmic Purple — deep purple skin, sweet orange core. Children eat them before they reach the kitchen.
  • Carrot Mix — red, yellow, white, and orange in one row. The most colourful thing in your garden.

Sow in April and again in June. Carrots from June right through to November.

All Franchi Sementi varieties, DAFM registered for Ireland. Dispatched from County Longford by An Post.

From your wellies to your belly. Grow it, pull it, eat it.

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