CARROT-NANTES
CARROT-NANTES
A$3.50
Availability: In stock
Carota Sativa
CARROT-NANTES has a fine-grained bright orange color & nearly coreless. Great flavor, sweet & crunchy. Excellent for freezing and juicing. Easy to grow & full of vitamins. Nantes carrots are named after the city of Nantes, the largest & most important city in Brittany. This cylindrical cultivar was developed sometime in the late 1800s & is quite popular in Europe because it’s sweeter & tastier than regular carrots, the slim, tubular, orange roots are 17cm long, 4 cm thick. It’s been proven tops for yield, delicious flavor & wide adaptability. Has very think skin so does not need peeling. Just scrubbing. Today there are more than a half-dozen varieties of carrots that specifically bear the Nantes name, but more generally Nantes has come to represent a quite large class of medium-sized cylindrical carrots rounded at both the top and tip. Stores well. Keep moist but NOT wet.
Scoville Heat Units (SHU)
Plant Height
30 - 45 cm (12 - 18 inches)
Season of Interest
Spring to Autumn
Temperature Range
16 - 24 °C
Determine / Indeterminate
Annual / Perennial / Biennial
Biennial grown as an Annual
Frost Hardy / Tender
Frost Tender
Full Sun / Part Sun / Shade
Full Sun
Sow Direct / Raise Seedlings
Sow Direct
Soil
Loose, sandy loam
pH
6.0 - 6.8
Soil Temperature
16 - 20 °C (60 - 68 °F)
Seed Preparation
No pre-treatment necessary.
Sowing Depth
0.6 cm (0.25 inches)
Plant Spacing
5 - 10 cm (2 - 4 inches)
Row spacing
30 - 40 cm (12 - 16 inches)
Watering
Regular watering, ensure soil remains moist
Germination Time (Days)
10 - 20 days
Harvest Time (Days)
65 - 75 days
Good Companion Plants
Onions, Radishes, Leeks, and Lettuce.
Bad Companion Plants
Dill and Parsnips
Pests
Carrot flies, Root maggots, and Nematodes
Diseases
Powdery mildew and Alternaria leaf blight.
More About Us
ABSeeds is an Australian owned business trading under the umbrella of Direct Compost Solutions which is owned and managed by Victoria Brun.
We as a company endeavor to provide to the public, Organic, Old Fashioned, Heritage, and Open-pollinated seeds that have not been genetically modified.
We purchased the business in November 2018 and renamed it to ABSeeds (All ‘Bout Seeds) to make the title shorter and represent what we hope to achieve with this business in the years ahead.
Seeds that we can’t grow ourselves we will acquire from people who grow for us, or we may purchase seeds from reputable heritage seed companies.
