Moon Carrot- Queen of the Umbels

[joel]

https://laidbackgardener.blog/2021/04/12/the-moon-carrot-queen-of-the-umbels/#comments
This thread could be under cooking, because you can eat the whole plant, could be under flower arrangement because it is a cut flower & may be a dried arrangement.
I posted it here because one of my prepping strategy is to grow plant that look good(IMHO) in the garden, that are edible. So I am going to grow it.

 

[Weedygarden]

With all of my botany nomenclature from my Montessori classroom (that I hand made), I recognize that "umbel" is the type of flower on the carrot.

Umbel

Description
Description
In botany, an umbel is an inflorescence that consists of a number of short flower stalks which spread from a common point, somewhat like umbrella ribs. The word was coined in botanical usage in the 1590s, from Latin umbella "parasol, sunshade". The arrangement can vary from being flat-topped to almost spherical. Wikipedia

 

[joel]

https://www.grandprismaticseed.com/flowers/moon-carrot100 seeds for $3.50

 

[Weedygarden]

It seems that your thread got little attention. I am getting ready to start a thread about carrots and found it in my search to make sure there wasn't a thread about growing carrots already. I have one garden bed that I grow lots of flowers in, but have thought carrots could grow in it and blend right in. The flowers, umbels, on these carrots would fit right in that garden bed. I'm ordering some of them right now.

 

[joel]

Weedygarden, please post how the plant does in your garden.
It is an uncommon display plant, something to talk about.
The writer at the top of the page is in Canada, so the plant should make it though the winter in your garden.

 

[Bacpacker]

I missed the thread totally before.
I've never had any luck with carrots. Never figured out why either

 

[Weedygarden]

Weedygarden, please post how the plant does in your garden.
It is an uncommon display plant, something to talk about.
The writer at the top of the page is in Canada, so the plant should make it though the winter in your garden.

You grew them last year? How did they turn out? I think that as a biennial, it would take a second year for the flower (umbel) to be there.

 

[SLADE]

We plant in the spring and they kind of grow all summer but as we move toward fall and late fall they really take off.
Storage carrots.

 

[joel]

I missed the thread totally before.
I've never had any luck with carrots. Never figured out why either

I planted them to deep, third time I got it right.
I made a furrow with my finger as light as possible, about 3/16, cover lightly & water every three days.

 

[Weedygarden]

The umbel would look great in a vase! I wonder how the carrot tastes?

 

[Neb]

The umbel would look great in a vase! I wonder how the carrot tastes?

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Carrots and queen anne's lace are related and the flowers look very similar.

Ben

 

[SLADE]

Queen Ann lace taste like dirt with a carrot twang.

 

[Weedygarden]

Carrots and queen anne's lace are related and the flowers look very similar.

Ben

I have had carrots grow a second year to see the flower.

Queen Ann lace taste like dirt with a carrot twang.

@SLADE , from everything I've read, Queen Anne's lace is poisonous.
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/daucus-carota/

 

[SLADE]

I'm not dead and queen Ann lace ROOT is a wild edible.We used to collect the seeds to make filled cookies. The tops make a tea. Daucus Carota
Not to be confused with poison hemlock.
They look alike.

 

[Weedygarden]

I'm not dead and queen Ann lace ROOT is a wild edible. We used to collect the seeds to make filled cookies. The tops make a tea. Daucus Carota
Not to be confused with poison hemlock.
They look alike.

I have heard that hemlock is poisonous!

 

[SLADE]

I have heard that hemlock is poisonous!

Very.

 

[joel]

Seseli hippomarathrum(Alpine moon carrot)​

Other names: Horse fennel, Horse poppy, Horse-poppy, Hippaton hippomarathrum, Selinum hippomarathrum, Sium hippomarathrum

https://www.shootgardening.com/plants/seseli-hippomarathrum​

 

[joel]

Seseli montanum(Mountain seseli)​

Other names: Dissected moon carrot
https://www.shootgardening.com/plants/seseli-montanum

 

[joel]

Seseli libanotis(Moon carrot)​

https://www.shootgardening.com/plants/seseli-libanotis