Description
Bring bold color and flavor to your garden with Cosmic Purple carrots, known for their striking purple skin and sweet orange interior. Perfect for home gardeners seeking a unique crop, Cosmic Purple are high in vitamin A and anthocyanins, providing both nutrition and a fun, eye-catching snack. Harvest at 6″-7″ for full-size carrots, or enjoy earlier as tender baby carrots for fresh salads or cooking.
With a quick 70-day maturity and the ability to be sown in successive crops every 3 weeks, Cosmic Purple carrots deliver a continuous harvest throughout the season. Their naturally sweet flavor and crisp texture make them ideal for fresh eating, roasting, or preserving, while their vibrant color ensures your garden and meals stand out.
This packet sows up to 30 feet. 360 seeds.
Variety Info:
Botanical Name: Daucus carota
Days to Maturity: 70 days
Family: Apiaceae
Native: Africa, Eurasia
Hardiness: Frost-tolerant biennial grown as an annual
Plant Dimensions: Roots are 6″–7″ long at their peak
Variety Information: Conical roots with long tapered ends, purple skin with orange interior. 'Cosmic Purple' has characteristics of both imperator and nantes types carrots.
Sowing Info:
When to Sow Outside: RECOMMENDED. 2 to 4 weeks before your average last frost date, and when soil temperature is at least 45°F, ideally 60°–85°F. Successive Sowings: Every 3 weeks until 10 to 12 weeks before your average first fall frost date. In very warm climates, carrots are grown primarily in fall, winter, and spring.
When to Start Inside: Not recommended; root disturbance stunts growth.
Days to Emerge: 10–25 days
Seed Depth: ¼”
Seed Spacing: 1″
Row Spacing: 6″
Thinning: When 1″ tall, thin to 1 every 3″
Growing Info:
Harvesting: For best flavor and texture, harvest carrots any time before, and until they reach their optimal size. Peak harvest period lasts about 3 weeks, longer in the fall. Late summer-sown carrots are sweetened after having been kissed by light frost; however, harvest before soil freezes, which may destroy the crop. In USDA zone 5 or warmer, carrots can be left in the ground for storage provided they are heavily mulched; harvest as needed on days the ground is not frozen.
