Some interesting facts about the humble carrot ...
1. What colour is a carrot? - Well you can see from our lovely picture orange is not the only colour. Although these days we pretty much only see the classic orange, carrots can come in a variety of colours including white and an almost black variety.
2. What makes them orange? - The common carrot gets it's orange hue from β-carotene, which is metabolised into vitamin A in humans.
3. The big myth - carrots help you see in the dark. A lack of vitamin A can cause poor vision, especially at night. So eating lots of carrots can't be a bad thing but it won't give you super human powers. This myth was spread around during world war two to cover up the uk's development of radar and to encourage people to eat more veg.
4. Carrots grow best in full sun but tolerate some shade. In order to avoid growing deformed carrots it is better to plant them in loose soil free from rocks. The seeds, which are 1-3mm in diameter, should be sown about 2cm deep. Carrots take around 4 months to mature and it is suggested that carrot seeds are sown from mid - February to July
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