If these seeds get cross-pollinated with Queen Anne’s Lace, they will revert back to their parent behavior and produce a white, less beefy and much less tasty root, not the colorful burst of sweetness we all prize. If you think this flower reminds you of Queen Anne’s Lace, well, I’m here to break the news to you: a carrot is the fine result of man’s manipulation with that plant. They have umbelliferous flower clusters, which are large open clusters of white flowers that droop like an umbrella, hence its botanical family’s namesake. This rather abruptly became a gardening bucket list item, and I just couldn't stop thinking about it.Ĭarrots are a biennial in the Umbelliferae family. Not that I don’t understand the biology of it all, just that I haven’t seen a carrot ever flower in our garden. Last year, amid our bumper carrot crop it dawned on me: I don’t really know where those carrot seeds come from and I really want to know first-hand. Broccoli, too, is renowned for going for it if you let it mature even a few weeks longer than ideal, despite it being a biennial. Yes, these crops, too, by their very nature we see through to seed maturity simply by virtue of growing them. Most home gardeners have seen lettuce and asian greens bolt and go to seed.
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