Daucus carota

Vibrant magenta, purple skin with contrasting orange/yellow flesh with a sweet flavour and thin skin. Gourmet flavour in an attractive, vigorous growing, 15-17cm carrot. Stays sweet in the heat and holds well through the cold.

Bred by John Narvazio, this carrot WINS our CSA Children’s award. Every child (sincerely, once tried, we had no child who was stuck in the “only eat orange” group) at CSA pick-up would look for extra Dragon carrots and munch them like candy – Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter!

The strengtenth of this carrot is its alluring colour and sweet flavour. It is easy to clean with a quick scrub and is delicious raw and cooked. To the children’s reward, the weakness of this carrot is the brittleness of its tops at maturity. For the market grower, you can overcome this weakness through harvesting young and at maturity through sequential plantings. Your reward is the excitement of child and adults alike, when they see them.

We have successfully grown these for bunching with tops, and we have also had to bag them – while the flavour was still sooo sweet, the tops weaken at close spacings and beyond maturity. We never minded nor did our CSA members as the carrots were fantastic – raw, roasted, boiled in soups. A great four-season carrot – and John has confirmed that no selective breeding will fix the weak top. So, we breed for flavour! We taste EVERY carrot we replant for seed – confirming that it is still sweet, its core is still slight, and its colour is ever glowing!

SEED COUNT: 500, 2500, 5000 approx.
Germination: Lot#16092 JAN 2024
500 seeds 89%, 2500 seeds 91%