
'Over The Rainbow' Carrot Mix (Minnesota Over-Wintered)
Daucus carota subsp. sativa Origin: Maine via Minnesota Improvement status: Cultivar/Grex Seeds per packet: ~200 Germination tested 10/2024: 89% Life cycle: Biennial Award-winning, long-time, Minnesota organic farmer Greg Reynolds swears by this carrot mix. He received the seed several years ago from Fedco, and has since had two separate populations over-winter in his field and produce seed the following year. Very hardy. This is a main season carrot, and Greg says they have remarkable carrot flavor, cream of the crop. Greg is an exceptionally talented market vegetable grower, who is getting into more serious seed work. We are excited to be developing a relationship with him, and hope to offer more of Greg's stuff as time goes on. This is the original description from Fedco: "(48-75 days) If there’s a better carrot mix than this one, it must be somewhere over the rainbow, way up high. We took a good formula called Rainbow Mix, especially strong in the lighter shades of yellow and oran