By 13th century carrots traveled from Persia to Asia, reaching distant Japan. During same time, European carrot started being cultivated in gardens and fields of France and Germany. Those carrots were biter, but they were nutritious and its popularity enabled quick spread across entire Europe. In , English settlers of the New World started cultivating Carrots in their first city of Jamestown, Virginia 20 years later production moved to Massachusetts.
Brazil was the first South American country to receive carrots in midth century, and not much later carrot arrived to Australia. Modern yellow carrot appeared in Netherlands during 17th century as a tribute to the ruling House of Orange. After years of selective breeding, Dutch yellow carrot was engineered to be without bitterness, increased sweetness and minimal wooden core. American cuisine did not include carrots for the longest of times.
Carrots take two to three months to grow from sowing through to harvest. A sandy loam soil and a dry, cool climate with enhanced irrigation are necessary. The seedlings must be planted in soil that has been tilled, turned over and aired.
Their spacing determines the shape, size and colour of the plants when they reach maturity. Sufficient space enables the roots to develop and store a large amount of nutrients. For optimal production, carrots are cultivated in rotation, i. There are several types of preventive treatments against diseases, parasites and pests to ensure the growth of this root vegetable.
For example, regular weeding by steam or by hand removes weeds and residues from former harvests, and thus drives out insects. Carrots are ready for harvesting when their roots appear at the surface and the green foliage is fully developed. As an underground root vegetable, carrots can be kept underground for a long time and without processing. They can thus be harvested mechanically or by hand as and when required. Carrots belong to the Apiaceae family.
See all comments 2. The place name Orange has nothing to do with the colour orange, it comes from the name of a Celtic god Arausio after whom the town was named.
The word for the colour and fruit 'orange' has a different origin, coming from a Dravidian language, possibly Tamil. The colour orange came to be associated with the House of Orange Nassau in the seventeenth century in a cating reference. The word Orange was used to describe the fruit in English from the thirteenth century, but it was not until the early sixteenth that the word was used to descibe a colour, until then the colour was referred to as 'yellow-red'.
In , the Netherlands were not an 'Spanish colony', but the head of these states were the house of Burgundy, after marriage of Philip 'the handsome', offspring of Maximilian von Hapsburg, to Jeanne 'the insane', daughter of 'Catholic kings' Fernando and Isabel, the head of all Burgundian states went to Charles, 'cesar Carlos', 1st in Spain, then elected for head of Holy German Empire as Charles V. Upon his arrival to Spain, he was born in Gand, ignored Spanish, arrived to Spain along with a team of politicians he trusted, originating the so called 'Comuneros de Castilla' mutiny, as castilian nobility was apart from ruling and the corresponding revenues.
The Burgundian approach to politics was maintaining local laws and authorities, just holding head of state. Burgundians came from Bornholm Island.
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